The Knowledge Transfer Partnership competition supports UK businesses to collaborate with academic institutions to deliver strategic innovation projects. This programme enables organisations to access academic expertise, embed new capabilities and accelerate growth through innovation.

Innovate UK has launched Round 2 of the National Materials Innovation Programme: Feasibility Studies competition, providing up to £2 million in grant funding to accelerate advanced materials innovation across the UK.

The Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) is one of the UK's largest energy innovation programmes, designed to support projects that can deliver net zero at the lowest possible cost to consumers while strengthening the resilience, efficiency, and flexibility of the energy system.

The future of defence innovation starts here. NATO DIANA's 2027 Challenge Call is now open, offering innovative companies direct access to NATO's network of test centres, defence end users, investors, and technology experts.

This programme takes a cohort-based approach, bringing together up to 20 high-potential businesses to accelerate innovation, remove barriers to adoption and drive commercial growth. Successful applicants will receive funding alongside tailored support, including access to investors, industry networks and expert guidance.

nnovate UK and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have launched the Contracts for Innovation (CfI) competition “Improving Outcomes for Children Experiencing Homelessness”, providing up to £2 million in funding for innovative projects that improve educational outcomes and wellbeing for vulnerable children and families.

Innovate UK, on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), is investing up to £32.8 million to support collaborative projects that strengthen the supply chains underpinning quantum-enabled sensing and Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) technologies.

The LDT4SSC Third Call for Pilots brings together three complementary funding strands designed to accelerate the deployment and interoperability of Local Digital Twins (LDTs) across Europe. The programme supports cities, technology providers, researchers, and innovators working to develop scalable digital solutions that improve sustainability, resilience, and public service delivery.

Women TechEU 2 is a European Innovation Council (EIC) funded initiative that supports women-led early-stage deep tech startups across Europe. The programme aims to strengthen female entrepreneurship within the deep technology sector by providing targeted funding and business acceleration support.

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has launched the Innovation Catalyst, a new pilot initiative designed to accelerate healthcare innovations from development through to real-world implementation. The programme combines funding, specialist support, national research infrastructure, and expert guidance to help innovators overcome technical, regulatory, clinical, and commercial barriers that often delay adoption within health and care systems.

The Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 7 (CMDC7), delivered by Innovate UK and funded by the Department for Transport through the UK SHORE programme, is providing up to £121 million to support innovative clean maritime technologies across the UK.

The UMX Open Call is an initiative by EIT Urban Mobility designed to accelerate the development and delivery of high-quality, sustainable professional training and support services in the field of urban mobility.

The Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) is the EU’s flagship funding initiative designed to accelerate Europe’s digital transformation. Running from 2021 to 2027 with a budget of around €7.9 billion, it focuses on bringing digital technologies to businesses, citizens, and public administrations. Individual projects can avail a funding of €500,000 to €2 million, with bigger projects eligible for €10 million. Unlike research programmes such as Horizon Europe, DIGITAL is dedicated to deployment—supporting projects that can quickly deliver real-world solutions.

DASA are seeking proposals which provide field communication capabilities that are resistant to attack but continue to perform if degraded and are secure.

Funding to create more effective training environments through the use of simulation and synthetic environments which will enable more frequent training, greater challenge and greater availability.

DASA are looking for proposals which promote a shift from more traditional chains of command to more dynamic, lateral networks, with greater delegation of authority and allow exploitation of relevant information at speed.

This funding is to deliver the UK government’s Horizon Europe guarantee.

This funding route is to deliver the UK Government’s Horizon Europe guarantee. Specifically, it covers funding for UK partners involved in EIT-KIC activities in the 2022 calendar year.