Guidance

UK Research and Innovation endorsed funders

Updated 20 August 2024

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Endorsed funders

An endorsed funder is an organisation accepted by UK Research and Innovation as a prestigious funder of research and innovation. Each funder has an excellent track record of awarding funding to researchers with critical skills, following a rigorous peer review process.

All UK ministerial departments and devolved government departments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are endorsed funders, as are the following:

  • Advanced Research and Invention Agency
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) (France)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation鈥�(Germany)鈥�
  • Alzheimer鈥檚 Research UK鈥��
  • Alzheimer鈥檚 Society鈥��
  • Anthony Nolan
  • Arts Council鈥疎ngland鈥�
  • Arts Council Northern Ireland鈥�
  • Arts Council of Wales
  • Austrian Science Fund (FWF)鈥�
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Blood Cancer UK
  • Brain Tumour Research
  • Breast Cancer Now鈥�(UK)
  • British Council
  • British Heart Foundation (UK)
  • Canadian Institute for Advanced Research鈥�
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)鈥�
  • Cancer Research UK
  • Chief Scientist Office - Scotland
  • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) (Italy)
  • Council of Scientific & Industrial Research鈥�(India)
  • Creative Scotland鈥�
  • Darwin Initiative (UK)
  • Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)鈥�(India)
  • Department of Biotechnology (DBT)鈥�(India)
  • Department of Science and Technology (DST)鈥�(India)
  • Diabetes UK鈥��
  • Dunhill Medical Trust
  • ELIXIR
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • European Molecular Biology Organisation
  • European Space Agency
  • Euratom
  • Faraday Institution (UK)
  • Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) (Luxembourg)
  • German Research Foundation (DFG)鈥�
  • Health and Care Research Wales鈥�
  • Health and Social Care Research and Development Division, Northern Ireland鈥�
  • Health Data Research UK鈥�
  • Higher Education Funding Council for Wales鈥��
  • Horizon Europe programmes, including Horizon 2020
  • Human Frontier Science Programme (France)
  • Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF)鈥�
  • Indian Council of Historical Research鈥�
  • Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)鈥�
  • International Development Research Centre (Canada)
  • International Institute for Applied System Analysis (Austria)
  • Japan Agency of Medical Research and Development鈥�
  • Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  • Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science鈥�(JSPS)鈥�
  • Korean Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI)鈥�(South Korea)
  • Learned Society of Wales鈥�
  • Leukaemia UK
  • Leverhulme Trust鈥�(UK)
  • Medical Research Foundation (UK)
  • Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)鈥�(India)
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology (MEXT) (Japan)
  • 惭颈迟补肠蝉鈥�(颁补苍补诲补)
  • Motor Neurone Disease Association (UK)
  • National Cyber Security Centre (UK)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)鈥�
  • National鈥疕ealth and鈥疢edical鈥疪esearch鈥疌ouncil (NHMRC)鈥�(Australia)
  • National Institute of Food and Agriculture鈥�(USA)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (UK)
  • National Institutes of Health鈥�(USA)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (China)) 鈥�
  • National Research Council (Canada)
  • National Research Foundation鈥�(South Africa)
  • National Research Foundation (South Korea)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) (USA)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)鈥�(Canada)
  • NC Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) (Brazil)
  • Netherlands鈥疧rganisation鈥痜or Scientific Research (NWO)鈥�
  • Nuffield Foundation (UK)
  • Parkinson鈥檚 UK鈥��
  • Pancreatic Cancer UK
  • Prostate Cancer Research
  • Prostate Cancer UK
  • Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland)
  • Public Health Scotland
  • Public Health Wales
  • Research Council of Finland (AKA)
  • Research Council of Norway
  • Rosetrees Trust (UK)
  • Royal Irish Academy
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Rural Environment Scientific and Analysis Services (RESAS) (UK)
  • S茫o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (Brazil)
  • Science Foundation Ireland
  • Scottish Funding Council鈥��
  • Ser Cymru
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)鈥�
  • South Africa Medical Research Council (SAMRC)鈥�
  • Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)鈥�
  • The Academy of Medical Sciences
  • The British Academy
  • The Indian Council of Medical Research
  • The Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research (UK)
  • The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (UK)
  • The Royal Academy of Engineering
  • The Royal Society
  • UK Atomic Energy Authority
  • UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI)
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • UK Research and Innovation, and its Councils
  • UK Space Agency
  • Versus Arthritis鈥�(UK)
  • Wellcome Trust (UK)
  • Wolfson Foundation (UK)
  • Worldwide Cancer Research
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