{"id":98546,"date":"2023-02-07T11:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta-ukri.msappproxy.net\/?page_id=98546"},"modified":"2025-07-04T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:20:09","slug":"ukri-strategic-themes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/who-we-are\/our-vision-and-strategy\/ukri-strategic-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"UKRI strategic themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"videoholder\" title=\"Embedded video\">\n<p><span class=\"videowrapper embed-youtube-nocookie aspect_ratio_562\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our five priorities for research and innovation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CNm5V8EmzQo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span> <!-- \/.videowrapper --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"video-caption\">Video credit: UKRI<br \/>\nVideo transcript and on-screen captions are available by watching on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>From cancer therapies to clean energy and from art conservation to astronomy, a rich history of research and innovation has transformed our lives for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s challenges are increasingly global and complex, needing diverse people and teams to understand and build the next generation of solutions and drive an innovation-led economy.<\/p>\n<p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has placed five important themes at the heart of our five-year strategy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>build a green future<\/li>\n<li>build a secure and resilient world<\/li>\n<li>create opportunities and improve outcomes in communities across the country<\/li>\n<li>secure better health, ageing and wellbeing for everyone<\/li>\n<li>tackle infections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By working towards shared goals, we can make life better for people, families, businesses and communities across the UK, improving lives, creating jobs and driving growth.<\/p>\n<h2>New work under our strategic themes<\/h2>\n<p>UKRI is supporting an ambitious set of programmes that include new interdisciplinary activity to amplify and connect existing UKRI investments relating to each theme.<\/p>\n<p>This additional investment spans six years from 2023 to 2029, with an initial commitment of up to \u00a3185 million from 2023 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Co-investment from our councils\u2019 core budgets, and other funding partners such as government departments and international funding agencies, are raising our overall investment yet further.<\/p>\n<p>This will make the strategic themes one of our largest and most exciting investment approaches, spanning the whole of our activity, at scale and over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video credit: UKRI Video transcript and on-screen captions are available by watching on YouTube. 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