Funding CallTraining Imperial Opens Applications for UKRI IAA Round 6

Published on 9th September 2025 in Training
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Imperial has announced the launch of Round 6 UKRI Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) with support from UKRI and the NIHR Imperial BRC.

This round will close to applications on 17:00, 13 October 2025.

The UKRI IAA supports translational activities to further develop the outputs of academic research towards having an impact on end-user communities. The core objective of the scheme is to-

  • Strengthen engagement with users to accelerate the translation of research outputs into impacts
  • Bridge the gap between discovery research and de-risked applications for translational funding schemes and other externally funded, later-stage translational activities, such as industry funding, Research Council Follow-On Funds, seed funding for spinouts and startups, Innovate UK, the MRC Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme (DPFS), or similar.
  • Support, develop and foster strategic partnerships for knowledge exchange and impact, including across disciplines and sectors
  • Build and maintain an environment and culture that enables effective and ambitious knowledge exchange and impact, including the development of skills, capacity and capability within research organisations
  • Provide early-stage support for progressing research outputs towards the next stages in the impact pipeline, for example:
    • Proof of concept and prototype projects to raise the Technology Readiness Level
    • Commercialisation
    • Market validation
    • Activities targeting policy, business and the third sectors
  • Drive continuous improvement in impact by supporting innovation, enabling ‘fast failure’, and capturing learning through appropriate mechanisms
  • Enable flexible and adaptive approaches to knowledge exchange and impact, including the ability to respond quickly to emerging opportunities.

Further information and how to apply can be found here.