Grants closing in February 2027

Applicants must be mentored postdoctoral researchers when applying. Applicants must never have held an independent faculty or equivalent position. Cancer immunotherapy research; at most five postdoctoral years unless CRI approves an exception; at least twelve mentored months before transition.

Project funding in the humanities, social sciences and medicine. Open to applicants holding a doctoral/post-doctoral degree at universities or non-profit research institutions. The project must have a clear connection to the German research system, personally, institutionally or thematically.

Call under Priority Programme SPP 527 for innovative research on data/cores from international ocean drilling programmes, preparation of future expeditions, or development of drilling tools/software; proposals must link to ongoing, past or future drilling projects. Proposals must be written in English and submitted via the elan portal.

Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers to conduct a research stay abroad, aimed at researchers who completed a doctorate in Switzerland or hold Swiss citizenship/permanent residence. This is the final submission round before the scheme is replaced by a new postdoctoral funding scheme in 2028.

MRC CoRE funding supports bold, long-term (up to 14-year) interdisciplinary health research centres led by UK research organisations; international researchers can join as co-leads but international organisations cannot lead. Excludes clinical trials, longitudinal population studies, and generic equipment/computing costs.

Call for the second three-year funding period of SPP 2411, studying cortico-subcortical interactions in mammalian adaptive sensing. Projects must address microcircuit-level neuronal activity in awake mammals and focus on sensory (not disease) mechanisms; purely anatomical, theoretical-only or non-mammalian studies are excluded. Proposals submitted via the DFG elan portal using form 53.01.

Proof of Concept grants in Life Science from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, a major Swedish private research funder. The applicant must hold a long-term association with a Swedish higher-education institution (≥70% of working time in Sweden).

Funds cancer target identification or validation using novel model systems, antibody or small molecule approaches for adult cancers. Open to academic researchers worldwide with their own lab; projects run collaboratively with Cancer Research Horizons' drug discovery scientists.

Funds hit identification, druggability assessment, and further development of early therapeutic projects for adult cancers using antibody or small molecule approaches. Open to academic researchers worldwide with their own lab; run collaboratively with Cancer Research Horizons.

Project grant for Swedish researchers participating in international collaborative research on antimicrobial resistance under the EUP OHAMR joint call.

International joint call under the Raw Materials Partnership for the Green and Digital Transition (RAMP), funded by multiple countries, for projects supporting sustainable and secure access to raw materials; projects must be developed in partnership across several countries.

Funding for research infrastructure of national interest in Sweden.

Thematic call for point-of-care clinical and independent research in Denmark, including prevention, treatment effects, rare diseases, AMR and dementia research. Applicant and Co-PI must each hold a PhD or equivalent at deadline; application must be written in English; embedded PhD/postdoc scholarships permitted.

Thematic research call on AI, with special focus on responsible development/use, ethical questions, and democratic/security implications. Applicant and Co-PI must hold a PhD; application must be in English and include at least one PhD student or postdoc.

Thematic DFF call on research on fertility (biological causes, environmental xenobiotics, prevention/treatment of reduced fertility, societal conditions affecting birth rates). Applicant and Co-PI must hold a PhD; application must be written in English; embedded PhD/postdoc scholarships allowed.

Thematic funding for green, independent, curiosity-driven research requiring an interdisciplinary applicant-Co-PI team spanning two different ERC main scientific areas. Application must be in English, include at least one embedded PhD student or postdoc, and both applicant and Co-PI must hold a PhD at deadline.

Thematic research call on psychiatry under the Danish Agreement on Research and Innovation 2026-2029; applicant and Co-PI must hold a PhD, must include at least one embedded PhD/postdoc, application must be written in English, and the project must involve international collaboration.