Exploring the frontiers of environmental research 2026
Overview
What you need to judge this in 30 seconds
Funding type: Grant · Funders: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
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- Category
- R&D
- Industry
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- Technology
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- Target stage
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- Project duration
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- Estimated preparation
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Funding
Award size and how it is paid
- Award range
- £100K ~ £200K
- Currency
- GBP
- Total programme budget
- £8M
- Support type
- Needs verification
- Co-funding
- Needs verification
- Matching fund
- Needs verification
- Disbursement
- Needs verification
- Note
- Award range: £100,000 - £200,000 / Total fund: £8,000,000
Eligibility
Can we actually apply?
This opportunity is open to organisations with standard eligibility. Check if your organisation is eligible Who is eligible to apply To be eligible as a project lead, you must be: • a resident in the UK • employed by an eligible UK research organisation We recognise that expertise is built through many routes, including industry experience, applied or practitioner roles, technical careers, non linear pathways and time spent outside academia. Therefore, in line with Individual eligibility we focus on individuals’ talent, skills and capability to lead and deliver the proposed work, rather than formal qualifications and length in post. We encourage: • multidisciplinary research and collaborations with other organisations • applications from individuals at all career stages Who is not eligible to apply An applicant may appear on a maximum of two applications submitted to this opportunity. Of those two, they may be listed as project lead on only one. We strongly recommend institutions use an internal quality assurance process to: • help ensure proposals are appropriately aligned with the scope of this opportunity • contribute to efficiency within the peer review process and avoid very low success rates Resubmissions We will not accept uninvited application resubmissions that have previously been assessed by UKRI. International researchers Under the UKRI and Research Council of Norway Money Follows Cooperation agreement a project co-lead (international) (previously co-investigator) can be based in a Norwegian institution. Read more about this in the NERC eligibility guidance for applicants . All other international collaborators (or UK partners not based at approved organisations) should be included as project partners. This includes organisations from the business or financial sectors. Equality, diversity and inclusion We are committed to achieving equality of opportunity for all funding applicants. We encourage applications from a diverse range of researchers. We support people to work in a way that suits their personal circumstances. This includes: • career breaks • support for people with caring responsibilities • flexible working • alternative working patterns UKRI can offer disability and accessibility support for UKRI applicants and grant holders during the application and assessment process.
- Company age
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- Employees
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- Revenue limits
- Needs verification
- Consortium
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Location Requirements
Geography and legal-entity conditions
- Primary country
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Also eligible
- None
- Foreign companies
- Needs verification
- Local entity
- Needs verification
- Location condition
- 영국 소재 기관·기업(또는 영국 파트너와의 협업)이 일반적으로 요구됩니다(원문 확인 필요).
Required Documents
Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions
Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.
Application Process
How you apply
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Evaluation
Review process and criteria
Evaluation process not captured.
Timeline
Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution
Process steps were not captured.
Equity & Financial Terms
Equity, loans and contract conditions
- Equity required
- Needs verification
- Loan
- Non-dilutive grant
- Duplicate funding
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Exclusivity
- Needs verification
- Right of first refusal
- Needs verification
- Audit & settlement
- Needs verification
Risk Intelligence
Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)
Chance of failing eligibility, location or legal-entity rules
Co-funding, matching funds, reimbursement and loan exposure
Paperwork load, timeline pressure, reporting and audit duties
Exclusivity, right of first refusal, duplicate-funding limits
How much technical detail you must hand over, and who owns it
- 10Required documents not collected· evidence needs verification
The list of required documents was not collected.
- 8Local-entity requirement not stated· evidence needs verification
The announcement does not say whether a local entity is required.
- 8Payment timing not stated· evidence needs verification
Advance versus reimbursement makes a large difference to cash flow.
- 7Overseas eligibility not stated· evidence needs verification
Whether an overseas company may take part has to be confirmed.
- 7Exclusivity not stated· evidence needs verification
Any exclusivity clause has to be checked.
- 6Right of first refusal not stated· evidence needs verification
Any right-of-first-refusal clause has to be checked.
- 6Duplicate-support rule not stated· evidence needs verification
Whether parallel support is allowed has to be confirmed.
- · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
- · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
- · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
- · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a local entity is required is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether an overseas company may apply is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a matching fund is required is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether payment is in advance or in arrears is not stated (needs verification).
- · The level of settlement and audit obligation is not stated (needs verification).
- · The duplicate-support rule is not stated (needs verification).
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IP / Idea Protection
How much of your technology and idea you must disclose
The announcement does not say what has to be submitted, so the disclosure exposure cannot be judged. the scope of the material requested is not stated. The awarding body is Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). 8 fields could not be read and must be checked in the announcement and the grant agreement.
- NDA
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Data rights
- Needs verification
- Disclosure depth
- Needs verification
- File patent first?
- Not applicable
- Reuse of submissions
- Needs verification
- Publicity obligation
- Needs verification
- Exposure score
- Needs verification
- · The problem your product solves, and the market definition
- · Your value proposition and quantified results (improvement rates, throughput)
- · Anything already public: granted patents, papers, press coverage
- · Team composition, capabilities and a summary of past delivery
- · Architecture-level diagrams at module granularity, without internal implementation
- · Core algorithms: formulae, hyper-parameters and pre-processing rules
- · Raw training data and the details of your collection pipeline
- · Full source code and build or deployment scripts
- · Cost structure and unit-price formulae
- · Named customers, contract terms and pricing
- · How an unfiled invention is actually implemented
- MEDIUMRequest an NDA
Ask in writing for a mutual NDA before submitting detailed technical material; if it is refused, keep what you submit at summary level.
4 evidence item(s) from the source
- UNKNOWN
No document list was collected, so the exposure of technical material cannot be judged.
Source link - UNKNOWN
No NDA clause could be found.
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IP ownership terms could not be found.
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Ownership of the deliverables terms could not be found.
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- · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
- · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
- · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
- · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
This assessment is derived from the stored announcement, document and contract fields. Anything the source does not state is marked "needs verification" — it never asserts that your idea will be taken. Generated by local:rules-v1 · 3d ago
AI Analysis
Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness
From paperwork and review stages
Heuristic from award size and type
Amount, terms and IP combined
Weighted average of five dimensions
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- Nothing flagged
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Source & Provenance
Every value carries its source URL and fetch time
- Official URL
- https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/exploring-the-frontiers-of-environmental-research-2026/
- Application URL
- https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/exploring-the-frontiers-of-environmental-research-2026/
- Last fetched
- 2026.09.10
- Human review
- Not reviewed — check the official announcement
- First seen
- 2026.08.27
- Data status
- Auto-collected, not reviewed
- AI enrichment
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