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Transformative Sustainable AI Technologies is the sustainability arm of EPSRC's Next Generation Artificial Intelligence programme, funding speculative and high-risk research on making AI systems sustainable, which the call defines as developing systems that maximise long-term economic and societal value while minimising environmental harm. The total fund is 12,050,000 pounds sterling, the maximum award is 602,500 pounds at full economic cost funded at 80 per cent by UKRI, the opportunity opened on 24 August 2026 and closes on 10 November 2026 at 4pm UK time, projects start on a fixed date of 1 February 2027 and run for up to 24 months. Priority areas are energy-efficient algorithms and system architecture, smaller task-specific models as an alternative to scaling, optimisation of AI for resource-constrained environments, hardware-software co-design, and repairable and recyclable hardware. The call draws a firm scope boundary: applications must be technology-led and cannot consist predominantly of social science, environmental, legal, policy or ethical study, which distinguishes it from the large body of AI-and-climate funding that supports governance and assessment work. Assessment is by distributed peer review with applicants reviewing peer proposals and up to eight reviews informing each decision, and the criteria are vision and approach, applicant and team capability, ethics and responsible research and innovation, resources and cost justification, and risk and reward. Research technical professionals including research software engineers are named as eligible team members.

UKRI has opened a 12,050,000 pound call for speculative, high-risk research aimed at a step change in the sustainability of future AI systems, covering innovation across the whole AI stack rather than any single layer. In scope are energy-efficient algorithms, hardware-software co-design, and AI systems designed to operate under real resource constraints, alongside work that addresses the environmental, social and economic sustainability impacts running through the AI value chain. The framing is notable for treating sustainability as broader than energy per training run: proposals are expected to engage with impacts across the value chain rather than optimising a single benchmark metric. As with the companion explainable AI call, UKRI states it is funding speculative and high-risk research with the potential to deliver high rewards, so incremental efficiency gains over existing baselines are unlikely to compete. Awards run up to 24 months with a fixed start of 1 February 2027 and a ceiling of 602,500 pounds full economic cost at 80 percent UKRI funding. Eligible roles explicitly include research technical professionals, which opens the call to systems and infrastructure specialists who are often excluded from conventional research grants. The deadline is 10 November 2026 at 4:00pm UK time, with a webinar held on 16 September 2026.

The NLGCA Program, under assistance listing number 10.326, will assist NLGCA institutions in maintaining and expanding their capacity to conduct education, research, outreach, and integrated activities relating to agriculture, renewable resources, and other similar disciplines. NLGCA institutions may use the funds to maintain and expand capacity: 1. to successfully compete for funds from Federal grants and other sources to carry out educational, research, outreach, and integrated activities that address priority concerns of national, regional, State, and local interest;2. to disseminate information relating to priority concerns to: a. interested members of the agriculture, renewable resources, and other relevant communities;b. the public; andc. any other interested entity;3. to encourage members of the agriculture, renewable resources, and other relevant communities to participate in priority education, research, outreach, and integrated activities by providing matching funds to leverage grant resources, and through: a. the purchase or other acquisition of equipment and other infrastructure (not including alteration, repair, renovation, or construction of buildings);b. the professional growth and development of the faculty of the NLGCA Institution; andc. the development of graduate assistantships. Funding Opportunity Number: USDA-NIFA-NLGCA-011938. Assistance Listing: 10.326. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AG. Award Amount: $30K – $750K per award.