{"id":28835,"date":"2026-05-05T08:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/28835\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T08:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:54:24","slug":"bbsrc-reopens-applicant-led-funding-opportunities-innovate-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/28835\/","title":{"rendered":"BBSRC reopens applicant-led funding opportunities | Innovate UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Applications for two Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) applicant\u2011led funding opportunities were paused while the council implemented behind\u2011the\u2011scenes changes to support this transition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Reopened funding opportunities<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The following funding opportunities are now live:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">These reopenings follow the earlier reopening of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) applicant\u2011led funding opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Always open funding opportunities<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Moving to \u2018always open\u2019 funding removes fixed deadlines, helping to smooth application demand and reviewer availability, while providing greater flexibility for applicants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Improved experience<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Dr Jef Grainger, BBSRC\u2019s Associate Director for Science Strategy, said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The move to an always open model is an important step in improving the experience of applicant\u2011led funding for the community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We\u2019re pleased that all paused schemes are now open again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Looking forward<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Looking ahead, this year will see a pipeline of additional funding opportunities supporting the delivery of our new mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">UKRI will also begin to launch its strategic priority programmes alongside applicant-led funding opportunities that enable researchers to bring forward the best ideas at any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Applications for two Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) applicant\u2011led funding opportunities were paused while the council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12622,12623,12620,12624,12625,1544,4264,12626,12627,12628,2465,12621,12629,1169,12630,12631,1188,4008,5,4103,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-28835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-applications","9":"tag-associate","10":"tag-bbsrc","11":"tag-biological","12":"tag-biotechnology","13":"tag-council","14":"tag-director","15":"tag-grainger","16":"tag-improved","17":"tag-innovate","18":"tag-innovation","19":"tag-looking","20":"tag-monday","21":"tag-moving","22":"tag-printable","23":"tag-reopened","24":"tag-research","25":"tag-science","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-ukri","28":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116521131168274641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}