Calls for funding
Our approach to grant making is that we direct most of our funding, in consultation with our community and based on evidence and insight of what the challenges are, where our focus should be, and what are the most effective solutions. Explore our current funding opportunities below.
Before you apply
Read more about our criteria for fundingcurrent and former grants across the globe.
countries the Foundation is active in.
total value of grants portfolio (live and complete).
Open funding calls
A new funding call to enhance global safety through the launch of the Foundation's new Global ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Evidence Centre. This call invites proposals to support research and evidence projects that address occupational safety and health (OSH) evidence gaps, as well as broader safety science work, such as how to measure and value safety and prevention, and how to learn from past failures and successes.
Former Foundation-funded student, scholar or apprentice? Apply for NEST funding
Our Network to Engineer a Safer Tomorrow (NEST), is a global community of grant holders, convened by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to facilitate learning opportunities and career development. When joining the Network, members are offered training, mentoring and small grant funds as well as an opportunity to keep up to date about the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø's activities.
Closed funding calls
Academic Networking Grant
Lloyd’s Register Foundation is inviting academic institutions, including universities and research centres within universities, to apply to a new Academic Networking Grant to help address critical global engineering and scientific safety challenges.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø a safer world funding call
Lloyd’s Register Foundation has recently launched its new strategy for 2024-2029.
Our new strategy focuses on three interconnected priority areas, which are listed in our strategy along with their main objectives. To support us in delivering this strategy, we are calling for proposals aimed at enhancing safety across these priority areas.
Following the publication of all four reports from the 2023 World Risk Poll, Lloyd’s Register Foundation is inviting funding proposals for projects that use the Poll data for further research and/or practical interventions that improve safety. Grants of up to £250,000 are available.
Small grants scheme
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø's small grants scheme offers grants up to £10,000 GBP for organisations interested in advancing our mission of engineering a safer world. Our small grants scheme will reopen Monday 1st September 2025.