UK offers £150M for long-term fellowships to create scalable green tech

08 Oct 2024 | News

Royal Academy of Engineering’s £3M Green Future Fellowships offer sizable, flexible and long-term grants for climate innovation

UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering. Photo credits: Royal Academy of Engineering

The UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering is distributing £150 million in grants to researchers who want to build commercially viable new green technologies, in what it says is a “unique” funding model.

The Green Future Fellowships, which will last a decade and be worth up to £3 million, are available to researchers from anywhere in the world, so long as they relocate to the UK to conduct their work.

Organisations like the European Research Council (ERC) already offer similarly flexible, long-term and well-funded grants. But the idea is now to provide an equivalent for “tech entrepreneurs”…