The Advanced Manufacturing: Measurement and Sensing Pilot is offering targeted funding and business support to ambitious UK SMEs developing measurement, sensing or instrumentation technologies for advanced manufacturing. The pilot is designed for businesses with strong growth potential whose solutions can address real challenges in UK manufacturing supply chains and improve productivity, resource efficiency or resilience.

The Advanced Manufacturing: Measurement and Sensing Pilot is offering targeted funding and business support to ambitious UK SMEs developing measurement, sensing or instrumentation technologies for advanced manufacturing

The Transnational Eureka Light weighting Call 2026 is now open, supporting international R&D projects focused on lightweighting technologies, sustainable materials, and circular manufacturing solutions.

The Investor Partnerships – ACT and Semiconductors competition is offering UK SMEs a combination of Innovate UK grant funding and private investment to develop and commercialise high-growth technologies. The programme targets growth-oriented businesses from seed to Series A that can demonstrate strong innovation, scalability and investor appeal.

The Medicines Manufacturing Data Institute: Phase 1 competition is offering seed funding to help UK organisations build the consortium and evidence needed to establish a new national data capability for medicines development and manufacturing. The proposed Medicines Manufacturing Data Institute (MMDI) will create a trusted, secure and federated environment where organisations can capture, share and use data more effectively. Phase 1 will support applicants to develop the consortium, governance, data architecture, use cases and commercial model needed for a larger Phase 2 programme. Successful Phase 1 applicants will be invited to compete for Phase 2 funding of up to £5 million.

The GRAPPA Open Call is supporting European SMEs that can turn underused agri-food biomass and side-streams into commercially valuable products, ingredients, processes and technologies. With a total call budget of €2.02 million, GRAPPA aims to accelerate the development, adoption and commercialisation of biomass upcycling solutions while helping SMEs strengthen their position within European and global value chains.

The Engineering Biology Access to Infrastructure Pilot is offering up to £5 million to help UK SMEs scale lab-proven engineering biology innovations towards pilot or demonstration scale. The competition is aimed at businesses that need access to specialist UK scale-up infrastructure, such as catapults, biofoundries, contract manufacturing organisations or other organisations with suitable engineering biology capabilities. Projects must include pilot-scale testing, demonstration or commercial validation and show how the innovation can move towards industrial application.

The National Materials Innovation Programme: CR&D Round 1 is offering collaborative funding to accelerate the translation and adoption of advanced materials innovations across strategically important UK industries.

The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowships programme is designed to develop the next generation of research and innovation leaders by providing long-term funding, leadership development, and organisational support.

The 5th Innowwide Call for Market Feasibility Projects provides funding for European SMEs to investigate the commercial potential of their innovations in markets across Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania. SMEs can use the six-month project to assess technical, market, legal and socioeconomic conditions while working with a local organisation in their chosen target country. The call will fund 70 projects, with each successful SME receiving a fixed €60,000 grant towards its international market feasibility project.

The UK-Singapore Collaborative R&D 2026 competition is offering funding for UK businesses to work with Singapore partners on innovative industrial research projects with strong commercial potential.

The Scottish Enterprise Life Sciences Accommodation Programme (LSAP) provides capital funding to help increase the supply of high-quality laboratory and manufacturing accommodation for Scotland’s growing life sciences sector.

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.

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) is inviting researchers, universities, businesses, charities, and public sector organisations to apply for funding to pursue ambitious, high-risk, high-reward research.

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.