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Who can apply for Advancing solutions for critical mineral production and recycling (Grant)?

Apply for funding for pump-priming research to explore, test and validate disruptive and transformative solutions for critical mineral extraction, processing, recovery, reprocessing, recycling or re-mining. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.

  • Funder: UK Research and Innovation, NERC, Innovate UK, AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC.
  • Who the source lists: Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector.
  • Where: National.
  • The published range is £1 to £305,000.
  • Opens 2026-10-14. Closes 2027-01-07.

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