The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has opened the ALERT 2025 mid-range equipment for biosciences research call to applications.

Applications are invited from research organisations, researchers, and research technical professionals (RTPs) normally eligible to apply to BBSRC for:

• Equipment that is widely used and underpins capability across all scientific areas within BBSRC’s remit (relevance to the priority areas in BBSRC’s strategic delivery plan is particularly encouraged).
• The use of emerging advanced research technology or utilisation of equipment in new ways, specifically ‘lab-to-field’ equipment which enables the translation (or applied use) of laboratory scale experiments to real-world settings or environments.
• Equipment that promotes collaboration and increased access to users within industry, public sector, and other institutes, for example equipment sharing and access to equipment.

The full economic cost (FEC) of equipment can be between £200,000 and £1.5 million. BBSRC will fund 100% of the FEC.

Applications must be submitted by 20 January 2026 (16:00).

Registration is open for an ALERT 2025 webinar on 5 November 2025 (10:30-11:30).