[April 2025]
Looking to scale your climate-smart idea or green business? There are several climate grant opportunities now open—but time is ticking.
These grants are designed to support innovators, entrepreneurs, and organizations working to combat climate change and promote sustainability, especially in agriculture, energy, and natural resource management.
Deadline: 30-Apr-25
Wellcome is pleased to announce the Climate Impacts Awards to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale.
They will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that maximise policy outcomes by combining evidence generation with influencing and engagement strategies.
Funding Information
- Funding amount: Up to £2.5 million
- Funding duration: Up to 3 years
Who can apply?
- The team must:
- Be transdisciplinary, combining knowledge from different scientific disciplines with that of public and private sector stakeholders and citizens. See this OECD report for further information on what they mean by transdisciplinary.
- Demonstrate strong health expertise and climate expertise (particularly climate and meteorological science). Additional expertise could span across economics, political science, private sector, legal sector, public engagement, media or communications and specific sections such as housing, agriculture or employment.
- Have a majority of members with a history of collaborating and successfully delivering projects.
- Have a strong record of working in climate change and health research, in communities most affected by climate change and in collaboration with policymakers or decision makers involved in delivering climate solutions.
- Have experience designing and planning research projects with major policy implications.
- Have experience designing and delivering communications and/or engagement activities, co-produced with impacted communities and key stakeholders with key policy impact.
- Include the necessary expertise, technical skills and organisational support to deliver the proposed research.
- Include either a lead applicant or coapplicants based in each country where the research will take place.
- Be of an appropriate size for the proposed research. Teams must consist of at least two applicants (including the lead applicant) and must not exceed eight applicants (the lead applicant and seven coapplicants). This requirement does not limit the number of collaborators.
- Actively foster a diverse, inclusive and supportive research environment.
- The lead applicant must:
- Be a team leader who wants to advance transdisciplinary research on the impacts of climate change on health.
- Have experience leading transdisciplinary teams and working in the science-policy-society interface.
- Have prior experience of research engaging with policy partners.
- Have knowledge brokering skills such as the ability to bring together research teams and impacted communities.
- Actively promote a diverse, inclusive and supportive environment within their team and across their organisation.
- Have the experience needed to drive and lead a collaborative, large-scale research project and the necessary support structures in place to enable this.
- Have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract, or the guarantee of one, for the duration of the award. The contract should not be conditional on receiving this award. Lead applicants with less than three years remaining on their contract at the point of application must have secured their next position at an eligible organisation and provide a letter of support from them.
- Be able to contribute at least 20% of their research time to this award.
- Be based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China).
- Each coapplicant must:
- Be essential for delivery of the proposed project and make a significant contribution, for example, in designing the proposed research and leading a specific component of the project.
- Be able to contribute at least 20% of their research time to this project.
- Have a guarantee of space from their organisation for the duration of their commitment to the project, but do not need to have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract.
- Collaborators
- Collaborators are distinct from coapplicants. Collaborators will support the delivery of a project, but will not lead on a specific component of the research. For example, collaborators could provide technical, clinical or subject-specific expertise on statistical analysis, measurement of specific variables or working in different countries. They could also provide access to tools or resources, such as facilities, data sets or clinical records.
Who cannot apply?
- You cannot apply for this award if:
- You intend to carry out activities which involve the transfer of funds into mainland China.
- You cannot demonstrate that you can dedicate enough time and resources to the project if funded.
- You are already an applicant on two applications for this funding call:
- You can only be a lead applicant on one application and a coapplicant on another application.
- You can be a coapplicant on two applications.
- You must demonstrate that you have sufficient capacity for both projects if funded. The applications should be for different projects with no overlap of activities.
- You already have applied for, or hold, the maximum number of Wellcome awards for your career stage.
For more information, visit Wellcome.