UKRI: Improve and accelerate the impact of your organisation’s research

12/10/2023

06/10/2024

The Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Medical Research Council and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, through their impact acceleration account programmes, invites applications for their funding to improve and accelerate research call. This support organisations to improve and accelerate the impact of their research. Grants are worth up to £800,000 per year for up to three years. Forecasted date for next year's call.

Funding must go to: •strengthen engagement with users in order to accelerate the translation of research outputs into impacts; •support, develop and foster strategic partnerships for knowledge exchange and impact, including across disciplines and sectors; •build and maintain an environment and culture that enables effective and ambitious knowledge exchange and impact, including development of skills, capacity and capability within research organisations; •provide early-stage support for progressing research outputs towards the next stages in the impact pipeline such as proof of concept projects, commercialisation, market validation or activities targeting policy, business and the third sectors; •drive continuous improvement in impact by supporting innovation, enabling fast failure and capturing learning through appropriate mechanisms; •enable flexible and adaptive approaches to knowledge exchange and impact, including the ability to respond quickly to emerging opportunities.

Institutional level heads from organisations eligible for UKRI funding may apply. MRC applications should be made from a consortia.