Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,500,000
Maximum award:
£2,500,000
Publication date:
13 February 2026
Opening date:
To be confirmed
Closing date:
To be confirmed
Apply for funding to develop an interdisciplinary NetworkPlus to address research and innovation challenges necessary for increased UK-wide property flood resilience adoption and uptake, relevant to the recommendations identified in the FloodReady review, published in October 2025.
The funding opportunity will be invite-only. To be invited to apply, potential applicants are expected to attend a consortium building workshop on Monday, 23 March 2026 in Swindon.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £2.5 million. Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will fund 80% of the FEC. The duration of the award is up to three years.
This is a pre-announcement and the information may change.
The funding opportunity will open in spring 2026 (date to be confirmed). More information will be available on this page by then.
The funding opportunity will be invite-only as we expect to welcome a single application comprising different work streams, each of which could be led by different research organisation.
To be invited to apply, potential applicants are expected to attend (or send a qualified representative to) a consortium building workshop on Monday 23 March 2026 in Swindon, to help set the framework and focus of the Network.
While participation in the workshop is required for the bid-writing team, not taking part does not preclude involvement in the Network at an appropriate stage.
This funding opportunity is open to organisations with standard eligibility, and organisations who are based overseas. .
EPSRC standard eligibility rules apply. For full details, visit .
International researchers
As EPSRC is a lead funder for this opportunity, international researchers can only apply as ‘project co-lead (international)’ as part of an application making use of the. You should include all other international collaborators (or UK partners not based at approved organisations) as project partners.
Resubmissions
We will not accept uninvited resubmissions of projects that have been submitted to UKRI or any other funder.