Unveiling the Opportunity Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is collaborating with The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to invest up to £5 million in ground-breaking projects. This funding is associated with Defra's Farming Innovation Programme, an alliance with UKRI's Transforming Food Production Challenge, facilitated by Innovate UK.

This competition aims to support ambitious, early-stage growth businesses in developing net zero products or services that can meet rising demand. The competition is designed to connect your innovations with the market through design thinking methods, stimulating behavioural changes in businesses and consumers alike.

Funded through a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) by Innovate UK on behalf of the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), this competition invites organisations to develop and commission an operational quantum computing testbed. The aim is to bolster the UK's technological capabilities in quantum computing, expand its user adoption, and refine its technology readiness.

Grant award: The total grant funding request for all UK partners can be up to £600,000 for each application.

Attention all innovators! Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) are joining forces to offer a whopping £3.5 million in funding through the Biomanufacturing of Biologics and Advanced Therapies competition.

This competition aims to develop and ensure solutions that yield positive outputs for farmers, growers, or foresters in commercially relevant situations. It seeks to foster new agricultural solutions through collaborative efforts, engagement with end users, and the UK research community. It also aims to accelerate adoption by facilitating knowledge exchange with the wider sector and other stakeholders.

To fuse Innovate UK's expertise in spotting innovation with investor partners' proficiency in identifying investment opportunities. Selected businesses gain both grant funding and access to the capital investment for R&D and innovation commercialisation. Pre-application requirements include establishing a relationship with an approved investor partner and confirming the position to apply for grant funding.

This fund aims to spur innovative products, services, and experiences that address challenges and opportunities within the media industry in Wales using R&D grant funding. Emphasis is placed on innovations in the media sector that can rival global competitors in scale, ambition, and skills.

This competition supports UK organisations in scaling sustainable products, services, or processes aimed at mitigating the screen industry's environmental impact in the CCR. Following the insights from BAFTA albert's Screen New Deal, the projects should focus on:

Accelerate quantum network tech by overcoming barriers to commercialization. Propose innovative projects to tackle these challenges. Application Note: You're part of a competitive process. Competition closes at the specified UK time deadline. Funding Type: Grant Project Scale: Total costs should range from £1.5M to £3M.

Innovate UK and Protein Industries Canada (PIC) are partnering to invest up to £6.5 million in innovation projects. This is a two-stage competition; the current Expression of Interest (EoI) stage aims to identify the best proposals for the full application stage, which will focus on supporting the plant-based protein sector's development.

Innovate UK will invest up to £2 million in UK offshore wind R&D projects. UK projects must work in collaboration with US projects, which will be separately funded by the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC). UK-US collaboration must be significant and meaningful. Only UK registered partners should be listed in the application on the Innovation Funding Service (IFS). Single-phase competition.

To support innovative projects that utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance productivity in key sectors. The funding is sourced from the Technologies Mission Fund.

Innovate UK (a part of UK Research and Innovation) aims to push forward the adoption and development of AI and Machine Learning in transport, construction, agriculture, and creative industries.

Loans are offered to assist businesses in surpassing hurdles to the commercial success of their innovations. The target is to yield substantial economic impact, fostering substantial, sustainable business growth.

Innovate UK, a segment of UK Research and Innovation, is allocating up to £20 million to fund projects by UK businesses aiming at innovative health or healthcare solutions.

The aim is to promote early-stage solutions capable of substantially improving farming productivity, sustainability, resilience, and facilitating the move towards net-zero. The solutions should offer positive outputs for farmers, growers, and foresters in commercially relevant situations and foster collaborations with the wider UK research community.

Innovate UK, under UK Research and Innovation, will grant up to £5 million for innovation projects focusing on flexible, agile, scalable and sustainable technologies (FASST) for medicines development and manufacture. Projects should boost manufacturing processes, increase efficiency, and reduce time-to-market, aiming for wider patient access to medicines. Proposals should benefit at least one UK SME's growth, productivity, and competitiveness.

Innovate UK, on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), will provide up to £5.3 million in funding. The aim is to bolster the UK's medicines manufacturing training and skills ecosystem.

The competition aims to fund business-led, collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects focused on net zero and sustainability. It targets industrial research and innovative proposals developed in collaboration between the UK and Singapore.

This competition aims to promote UK-German partnerships in emerging technology fields such as quantum, AI, semiconductors, engineering biology, future telecoms, and green technologies. Collaborative projects should advance innovation, deliver new applications, and drive growth in both countries.

Description: Innovate UK will invest up to £2 million in UK offshore wind R&D projects. UK projects must work in collaboration with US projects, which will be separately funded by the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC). UK-US collaboration must be significant and meaningful. Only UK registered partners should be listed in the application on the Innovation Funding Service (IFS). Single-phase competition.

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.