Funding calls with deadlines:
May 2026
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations. The Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) project facilitates knowledge exchange (KE) and sustainable collaboration across UK Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities. Through funded fellowships, CAKE supports individuals who champion KE within specific areas of the DRI landscape, helping to develop shared practices, strengthen connections across computational science, and build lasting collaborative networks. Fellows participate in the CAKE community to exchange expertise, contribute to best practices, and help shape the future of KE in DRI. Fellowships typically run for twelve months, with opportunities for continued involvement in the CAKE network beyond the funded period.
📣 Call page: cake.ac.uk/about/ke-fe... | 📧 Contact: cake-management@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
Apr 2026
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations (currently open - rolling deadline of the 15th of every second month). CHARTED’s Fund 2 supports community activities that strengthen the digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTP) ecosystem by improving understanding of skills, roles, and career pathways, and by enhancing the visibility and accessibility of relevant training resources. The fund enables a range of events and initiatives that support skills development, community engagement, and clearer navigation of the technical career landscape for both new and experienced members of the research ecosystem.
📣 Call page: drtp-skills.ac.uk/fund... | 📧 Contact: w.filinger@epcc.ed.ac.uk
May 2026
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations. The Mathematical Innovators in the Digital Space (MInDS) Flexible Fund (2025–2029) supports the expansion of the UK Innovation Research Associate (InRA) community by enabling university mathematical sciences departments to develop InRA capacity. This funding stream aims to strengthen capability, foster collaboration, and broaden participation in innovation-focused research roles across the UK mathematical sciences landscape.
📣 Call page: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/... | 📧 Contact: Andreas Kyprianou
Always open calls:
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations (there is a rolling deadline of the 1st of each month). CAKE Placements and Visits reduce barriers to collaboration by providing financial support that enables individuals to connect and work together on projects that strengthen the future of the DRI landscape. These opportunities are designed to build new partnerships and foster collaborations that continue beyond the placement or visit.
📣 Call page: cake.ac.uk/about/place... | 📧 Contact: cake-management@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations (currently open - rolling monthly deadline of the 15th of each month). The fund supports early career professionals and individuals transitioning into digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles, enabling activities that enhance skills development and strengthen engagement with local communities. Applicants are expected to demonstrate how the supported activity will benefit their professional development and contribute to wider community impact. The fund operates on a rolling basis with monthly review cycles, with a total value of £150k available across the duration of the CHARTED project and individual awards of up to £5k.
📣 Call page: drtp-skills.ac.uk/fund... | 📧 Contact: w.filinger@epcc.ed.ac.uk
This project offers financial assistance to support people who require it in order to be able to attend CaSDaR events. CaSDaR provides bursary funding to reduce financial barriers to event participation, offering support for costs such as travel, accommodation, childcare, caring responsibilities, and other access needs where alternative funding is not available. Bursaries are reviewed for each event, with application deadlines published alongside event announcements, helping enable broader participation in careers and skills development activities across the data-driven research community.
📣 Call page: casdar.ac.uk/casdar-bu... | 📧 Contact: casdar@soton.ac.uk
This project offers funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations (open throughout 2026). STEP-UP provides funded career placement and bridging opportunities for individuals working with research data, software, and computing infrastructure to undertake short-term (1–3 month) visits with dRTP teams at Imperial College London, King’s College London, UCL, or the University of Westminster. The scheme supports the development of technical and professional skills, knowledge exchange, and continuity between funded activities. Awards of up to £15,550 per placement contribute towards salary costs and relevant placement expenses. Applications are reviewed monthly throughout 2026 (subject to available funds), with placements to be completed by October 2027.
📣 Call page: step-up.ac.uk/placements/ | 📧 Contact: info@step-up.ac.uk
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations. This funding initiative supports UK-based Research Technical Professionals (RTPs) engaged with the UK RAS STEPS community who work in robotics or autonomous systems. The fund can be used for activities such as conference attendance, training fees, professional body membership, and networking opportunities, helping to enhance skills, knowledge, and professional development. Awards are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis until the available funding is fully committed. All supported activities must be booked and paid for by the end of September 2026.
📣 Call page: ukras-steps.org/person... | 📧 Contact: info@ukras-steps.org
Upcoming opportunities:
This project provides training opportunities through recognised events and skills development activities. The Accelerated Compute Infrastructure Training Hub at the University of Surrey strengthens the United Kingdom workforce supporting advanced computing by coordinating and enhancing national capabilities, delivering recognised training and events covering accelerators, high-performance networking, storage, orchestration, hybrid cloud, infrastructure automation, security, sustainability, and researcher support.
📣 Call page: acit.surrey.ac.uk/inde... | 📧 Contact: ACIT@surrey.ac.uk
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations. It supports activities that improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of the training ecosystem. Funded work may include defining skills frameworks, expanding skill trees, linking skills to training resources, adapting existing content, and identifying gaps in provision or professional development challenges. The fund totals £350k, supporting small projects of up to approximately £5k as well as a limited number of larger projects of up to £100k.
📣 Call page: drtp-skills.ac.uk/fund... | 📧 Contact: w.filinger@epcc.ed.ac.uk
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations. It supports the development of tools and frameworks that improve the navigability of the ecosystem, including the design, creation, or testing of resources such as self-assessment tools, navigation aids, approaches to continuous professional development, and best practice guidance. Expressions of interest are invited, with the possibility of combining complementary proposals. The fund totals £350k, supporting small projects of up to approximately £5k and larger projects of up to £150k.
📣 Call page: drtp-skills.ac.uk/fund... | 📧 Contact: w.filinger@epcc.ed.ac.uk
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations. The Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) initiative supports the professional development of Data Stewards across the UK. This funding call aims to strengthen careers and skills development by building an evidence base that demonstrates the value of introducing Data Steward roles across a wide range of disciplines and organisations, helping to embed effective data practices within the UK research ecosystem.
📣 Call page: casdar.ac.uk/funding/f... | 📧 Contact: casdar@soton.ac.uk
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations. SHAREing (Skills Hub for Accelerated Research Environments), funded through the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure Programme, administers flexible funding across four work packages aligned with evolving skills priorities. Individual awards typically range from £5,000 to £25,000, contributing to a total fund of £1.6m over the lifetime of the project. For each funding call, the Hub defines the scope of work and eligibility criteria based on identified needs within the research infrastructure skills landscape.
📣 Call page: shareing-dri.github.io... | 📧 Contact: Tobias Weinzierl
Closed opportunities:
Nov 2025
This project offers flexible funding opportunities to support relevant activities and collaborations. The DisCouRSE Flexible Fund supports the development of leadership capability across digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles in the UK, helping to build a connected and empowered community able to shape the future of digital research. The fund focuses on strengthening leadership skills and supporting career pathways, enabling individuals and communities to prepare the next generation of leaders while fostering roles that provide opportunities for leadership within the evolving research landscape.
📣 Call page: discourse-network.gith... | 📧 Contact: arc.discourse@ucl.ac.uk
Dec 2025
People in Data convenes a nationwide community of data professionals to champion data’s value and the people behind it. It aims to connect practitioners, build skills and capacity, and develop a sustainable business case. It offers programmes with partners across the United Kingdom’s universities, institutes, government and industry.
📣 Call page: turing.ac.uk/research/... | 📧 Contact: PeopleInData@turing.ac.uk