Award Title: CoSeC NPRAISE Funding
Award Start Date: 1 September 2026
Total Award: £479,485.44
Panel Meeting: 14 April 2026 at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Panel:
| Mark Wilkinson (Chair) | University of Leicester |
| Benzi John | UKRI-STFC |
| Jaroslav Fowkes | UKRI-STFC |
| Joe Thacker | UKRI-STFC |
| Oscar Seip | University of Manchester |
| Paul Quinn | UKRI-STFC |
| Susmita Basak | UKRI-STFC |
| Damian Jones (Convenor) | UKRI-STFC |
| Pam Slingsby (Administration) | UKRI-STFC |
Summary:
| Number of applications | Funded | Unfunded |
| 23 | 6 | 17 |
Award Details:
The National Platform for Research Technical Professionals on AI for Science and Engineering (NPRAISE) is one of the UKRI’s Strategic Technical Platforms (STPs), funded by UKRI through EPSRC and its central DRI programme, and is designed to improve the skills of Research Technical Professionals (RTPs) on AI for Science and Engineering (AI4SE) in the UK. NPRAISE is run by STFC Scientific Computing, which offers a dynamic and inclusive environment for professional growth.
This funding opportunity aims to grow the skills and expertise of RTPs within the UK’s Collaborative Computational Projects (CCPs) and High-end Computing Consortia (HECs), many of whom directly collaborate with CoSeC, covering a diverse set of research disciplines.
This call is managed by STFC Scientific Computing through CoSeC and with support from its AI for Science Theme and the Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC). It is an RTP-focussed opportunity, and as such, upskilling on AI for Science and Engineering should be the key focus within the research areas covered by the CCPs and HECs.
View details of the full call here.
Key Dates:
| Activity | Date |
| Call for Proposals Opens | 12 January 2026 |
| Deadline for Proposals | 6 March 2026 |
| Expert Panel | 14 April 2026 |
| Funding Decision | w/c Monday 20 April 2026 |
| Grant Start Date | 1 September 2026 |
| Proposal | Title | Final Decision |
| Proposal: NP-Co-03 | Hybrid differentiable ML/AI-physics simulation capabilities in Firedrake | FUNDED £79,998.28 |
| Proposal: NP-Co-10 | GRaiNNs: Graph Neural Network Simulation for particulate processes | FUNDED £78,612.84 |
| Proposal: NP-Co-12 | AI Integrated High-Speed Imaging for Manufacturing | FUNDED £79,943.13 |
| Proposal: NP-Co-13 | AI for Next-Generation Wave-Structure Interaction: Physics-Integrated Surrogates | FUNDED £79,978.18 |
| Proposal: NP-Co-15 | Spin- and Hessian-Enhanced MLIPs for Materials Modelling | FUNDED £77,327.01 |
| Proposal: NP-Co-22 | Fourier Neural Operator for recovering high-frequency noise generated by turbulence | FUNDED £83,626.00 |
| Proposal: NP-Co-09 | FUNDED but award not accepted | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-01 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-02 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-04 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-05 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-06 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-07 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-08 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-11 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-14 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-16 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-17 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-18 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-19 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-20 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-21 | NOT FUNDED | |
| Proposal: NP-Co-23 | NOT FUNDED |