Supporting novel early-stage projects that are novel, innovative and have the potential to break new ground in cancer research
Scope
Seeking early-stage ideas from any discipline, from basic science to technology development – including, but not limited to:
- Molecular and cellular biology
- Optimising treatments and diagnostics
- Device and software development
- Behavioural and population studies
Individuals or teams, from any background, including commercial organisations, can apply.
Up to £200,000
More information can be found here
Electro-Optic and Infrared (EOIR) sensors are a key military capability used for surveillance, reconnaissance, target acquisition, threat warning, target detection and more.
Applications are sought for the development of novel and resilient technologies that can function in contested/congested environments, that will extend the range, lower the cost and size, and expand the range of targets that can be addressed by EOIR sensors.
Scope
All sensors and technologies must operate from the Ultra Violet (UV) to the Far Infrared (IR) range
Challenge areas:
- Novel optics and materials
- Novel sensors
- Embedded/Edge Processing applied to EOIR sensing
Project size
£TBC
Start and close dates TBC
More information can be found here
Large volumes of waste fuel, oil, lubricants and some liquid chemicals are generated across the MOD estate and are currently disposed of off-site through external waste management companies, at cost to the tax-payer.
The aim of the competition is to develop an end to end solution that produces reusable by-products from these waste materials
Scope
This competition is focused on traditional fixed systems but also on a portable (transported by aircraft) bioprocessing system that can be used by MOD on world-wide deployments and potentially by aid organisations for disaster relief operations.
DASA is looking for innovations from bidders using existing and new capabilities to:
- develop a prototype bio-processing system to break down the waste into its natural by-products
- develop the most effective microbes, microbe mixes or non-microbial agents, to optimise growth environments to achieve this breakdown for different waste products
- identify the recycling potential of the by-products to prove that there is a market and use for them
Project size
£TBC
Start and close dates TBC
More information can be found here
The competition will focus on collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects, which should result in a new product, industrial process or service. Projects must be innovative, involve a technological risk and target large global markets
Innovate UK and IACMI have developed a portfolio of composite manufacturing technology priority areas. These are relevant to the UK and the USA. IACMI has selected a number of existing projects that reflect this portfolio. UK organisations are invited to apply to collaborate with these projects.
UK-led projects can have total eligible project costs between £100,000 and £1 million, with a maximum grant of up to £300,000 for UK applicants.
Coeliac UK in collaboration with Innovate UK are launching a second research call to industry and researchers to make improvements for people living with coeliac disease
Projects must underpin and support Coeliac UK's top ten research priorities, for example:
a) improving diagnostics for coeliac disease, refractory coeliac disease and/or gluten related neurological conditions
b) developing tools for improving the long term management of coeliac disease
c) enhancing the quality of staple gluten free food
Up to £180,000
More information can be found here
The aim of this competition is to support highly innovative, market-focused energy solutions in any technology or sector. Projects can last up to 12 months
Projects must encourage the development of products and services that help countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or both regions access secure, low cost and low carbon energy.
They must be targeted at people, public services and local enterprises who are unable to afford or access existing solutions, or who lack the time or expertise to successfully use those solutions.
Proposals must tackle all 3 areas of the energy ‘trilemma’: clean, affordable, security of supply and energy access.
£50 – 300K
More information can be found here
The aim of this competition is to support highly innovative, market-focused energy solutions in any technology or sector. Projects can last between 12 and 24 months
Projects must encourage the development of products and services that help countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or both regions access secure, low cost and low carbon energy.
They must be targeted at people, public services and local enterprises who are unable to afford or access existing solutions, or who lack the time or expertise to successfully use those solutions.
Proposals must tackle all 3 areas of the energy ‘trilemma’: clean, affordable, security of supply and energy access.
£50k – £1.5m
More information can be found here
The aim of this competition is to support highly innovative, market-focused energy solutions in any technology or sector. Projects can last between 12 and 36 months
Scope
Projects must encourage the development of products and services that help countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or both regions access secure, low cost and low carbon energy.
They must be targeted at people, public services and local enterprises who are unable to afford or access existing solutions, or who lack the time or expertise to successfully use those solutions.
Proposals must tackle all 3 areas of the energy ‘trilemma’: clean, affordable, security of supply and energy access.
£50k – £5m
More information can be found here
The aim of this competition is to develop responsible data access or sharing methods in the accountancy, insurance and legal services sectors. These will enable the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and data technologies
Applications are sought from interested parties to participate in a 3-day residential Innovation Lab on behalf of their organisation. Participants will work together to develop collaborative proposals. After the Innovation Lab, the project consortia will have 4 weeks to finalise their proposals before submitting them for assessment. Not participating in the workshop does not exclude organisations from joining established collaborations, however consortia must be led by UK-based businesses that attended the Innovation Lab.
Up to £1.5m
More information can be found here
Loans are for highly innovative late stage projects with the best game changing and/or disruptive ideas or concepts. There should be a clear route to commercialisation and economic impact.
Scope
The aim of this competition is to help businesses overcome barriers to the best cutting edge, game changing innovations becoming a successful commercial reality. This includes making a considerable economic impact and/or resulting in significant, sustainable business growth.
Projects should last up to 5 years, of which up to 3 years can focus on late stage R&D, and up to 2 more years on establishing a clear route to commercial success. Loan repayments will be required over a further period of up to 5 years.
£100,000 to £1m
More information can be found here
The overall programme will be delivered in 2 phases. Only successful applications from phase 1 will be able to take part in phase 2 (opens June 2020). Phase 1 focuses on collaborative feasibility studies. This is to help UK and Malaysian businesses investigate a) the interaction between their innovations and b) how feasible a joint demonstration project would be in responding to Malaysia’s mobility and waste to wealth challenges.
Phase 2 (follow on) projects will provide economical and sustainable solutions to be demonstrated in environments that represent real life operating conditions.
Project size
Up to £30,000 (phase 1)
More information can be found here
Seeking proposals for novel and innovative technologies and approaches to enable UK Defence to effectively conduct electromagnetic operations across the air, land (urban and rural), sea, space and cyber domains
Scope
This competition is divided into four challenges:
1. Find me a channel - innovative proposals to improve how UK Defence can sense, manage, visualise and utilise the EM spectrum (in real-time)
2. Stay in contact - innovative proposals to address how UK Defence can survive and conduct effective EW operations within an environment of multiple target/threat signals, multiple jammers and multiple radio systems, enabling us to operate and maintain capability effectively within the EM environment
3. No use hiding from me - seeking ways to overcome attempts by our enemy to avoid detection as we go about trying to find and target them
4. Taxi! - looking at how best to transport our effect delivery options into areas where there will be many EM ‘bad guy’ sensors looking at us, to deliver our effect on target
Project size
£350,000 – £650,000
More information can be found here
The aim of the competition is to investigate how technology can be used to monitor developments of all sizes and types, building an accurate picture of development status from permission to completion and occupation
Scope
Waltham Forest is investigating how technology can be used to monitor developments of all sizes and types, building an accurate picture of development status from permission to completion and occupation.
The outcome of this competition should be solutions which construct an accurate timeline of development. This means bringing together the diverse sources of information which already exist, and exploring potential new sources of information for the monitoring of development sites. The tool developed will be tested to ensure that it enables planners to make more informed decisions.
Up to £50,000
More information can be found here
Funding to develop technology components that can enhance the efficiency of local energy systems.
Technology components should deliver cleaner, cheaper energy services and create more prosperous and resilient communities across the UK.
Scope
Applications are sought for innovations in these key areas:
- Applications for monitoring electricity and/or gas network hardware and software
- Enhancing integration between local and national electricity networks, both electricity system operators (ESO) and distribution system operators (DSO)
- Enhancing integration between local and national electricity markets (wholesale market, balancing mechanism and ancillary services)
- Multi-site, real time generation optimisation across multiple operators or aggregators
- Enhancing the efficiency of heat networks
- Heat and cold storage, especially inter-seasonal storage
- Optimised vector coupling solutions: electricity, heat and transport
Project size
£100,000 - £500,000
More information can be found here
Seeking projects that focus on the use of industrial digital technologies to transform the productivity and agility of UK manufacturing
Scope
The aim of this competition is to fund projects focussed on the use of industrial digital technologies to transform the productivity and agility of UK manufacturing.
Projects must be able to achieve short-term impact and rapid technology development.
Projects must focus on at least one of the 4 innovation themes:
- Smart connected factory
- Connected and versatile supply chain
- Design, make, test
- Adaptable, flexible manufacturing operations and skills
Project size
£250,000 – £10m
More information can be found here
Project size
£25,000 – £500,000 (6 –18 months)
£25,000 – £2,000,000 (19 –36 months)
Your proposal must demonstrate:
Projects should take customer and user needs into account to deliver more desirable and useful solutions.
More information about eligibility here
Seeking proposals for innovative ‘Point of Care’ diagnostics technologies that provide information to enable clinicians to earlier diagnose and ultimately treat individuals exposed to chemical and biological hazards
Scope
At present, there is a limited diagnostic capability within overseas theatres of operations.
The ultimate goal is to provide simple-to-use PoC diagnostic devices that are capable of complex outputs to aid decision making for treatment.
DASA is seeking proposals that demonstrate feasibility of novel approaches for detection of low levels of analyte in complex sample types.
Applicants are directed to focus on the development of novel sensor transduction mechanisms or concepts that have the capability of overcoming the logistical and user burden associated with current platforms.
Project size
£50,000 – £150,000
More information can be found here
The aim of this competition is to match the best UK experts and cutting-edge facilities with companies that have analysis or measurement problems
Scope
The aim of this competition is to help businesses address analysis and measurement problems affecting an existing product, process or service. For example, to analyse why a certain percentage defect rate is occurring within an existing production process. These are problems that are best explored by experts and cutting-edge facilities available in the UK. You must outline what you consider to be the benefits of solving your problem, such as improved productivity or competitiveness.
This is phase 1 of a potential 2-phase competition. A decision to proceed with phase 2 will depend on the outcomes from phase 1. Only successful applicants from phase 1 will be able to apply to take part in phase 2.
Project size
£25,000 – £300,000
More information can be found here
Supporting creation, development and scale up of supply chains in power electronics, machines and drives (PEMD) in the UK
The over arching aim is to support the transition towards a low carbon future in transport, energy and industry
Scope
As part of the Driving the Electric Revolution challenge, Innovate UK is looking for supply chain focused projects.
Projects must build a credible and scalable supply chain in the UK, or demonstrate an improvement in an existing one.
These projects should address clear and immediate commercial opportunities in PEMD in the 7 sectors:
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Energy (generation and distribution)
- Industrial (production equipment, robots to lighting)
- Marine
- Off highway (construction, agriculture equipment)
- Rail
Project size
£1m – £3m
More information can be found here
Supporting creation, development and scale up of supply chains in power electronics, machines and drives (PEMD) in the UK
The over arching aim is to support the transition towards a low carbon future in transport, energy and industry
Scope
As part of the Driving the Electric Revolution challenge, Innovate UK is looking for supply chain focused projects.
Projects must build a credible and scalable supply chain in the UK, or demonstrate an improvement in an existing one.
These projects should address clear and immediate commercial opportunities in PEMD in the 7 sectors:
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Energy (generation and distribution)
- Industrial (production equipment, robots to lighting)
- Marine
- Off highway (construction, agriculture equipment)
- Rail
Project size
£250,000 – £1m
More information can be found here
Projects must have the potential to reduce greenhouse gases and/or air quality pollutant emissions from the maritime industry.
MarRI-UK is seeking proposals with the potential to offer significant improvements to systems, timings, processes or technology for clean maritime operations.
Topics include but are not limited to: electrification, innovative energy efficiency measures, alternative propulsion, hazard and safety assessment of new fuels, energy systems and alternate fuels.
Up to £250,000
More information can be found here
The aim of the competition is to advance the commercialisation of quantum technologies in the UK
Projects must address one or more of the following technical challenges: connectivity, situational awareness and computing
Scope
The aim is to accelerate the commercialisation of second generation quantum technologies in the UK and increase private sector investment in the research, development and manufacture of the resulting hardware, software and services.
Second generation quantum techniques are defined as the generation or coherent control and manipulation of quantum states, resulting in superposition and entanglement (single photon generation or detection and quantum computing are in scope).
Project size
£50,000 – £500,000
More information can be found here
Seeking projects to support the development of a connected and autonomous vehicle cyber-security testing capability
Proposals must:
- Find ways to measure cyber-physical resilience and maintain cyber security for vehicles, roadside infrastructure, supporting services and so on
- Provide input specifications for one or more new cyber test facilities
- Explore opportunities to develop new cyber related services
Scope
Project themes:
1. Monitoring - Determine and develop techniques to monitor the cyber health of CAVs and supporting infrastructure
2. Threats to connected vehicle networks - Determine how to use physical and virtual testing to identify and mitigate against complex threats
3. Threats to automated vehicles - Investigate how individual automated vehicles may be able to develop resilience and respond to cyber-attacks
4. Countermeasure and risk mitigation - Determine suitable scalable techniques that could be deployed as cyber threat countermeasures and what processes could be undertaken as risk mitigation
5. Other - Other areas of cyber security that may improve the safety and security of vehicle occupants, service users, other road users (including vulnerable road users) and road safety at any scale
Project size
£40,000 – £800,000
More information can be found here
Aimed at SMEs in need of a funding boost to reach the next stage in the medical / healthcare development pathway
Scope
i4i Connect will help SMEs get to the point of eligibility for a full i4i award or, down the line, follow on-funding.
This will enable accelerated development of promising medical technologies. The aim is to de-risk projects, making them attractive to follow-on funders and investors.
Project size
£50,000 – £150,000
More information can be found here
Innovative solutions to improve productivity, quality and performance of the UK construction sector are sought. Demonstrator projects must establish improvements in productivity, quality and performance of the UK construction sector.
The aim of this competition is to present a portfolio of demonstrator projects which showcase close-to-market solutions that go beyond the current state-of-the-art. Demonstrators will apply known approaches on real world projects showing how improvements in the UK construction sector can be delivered at scale.
Demonstrators will include new validations of business models, digital approaches to design, construction and management, advancements in modern methods of construction and approaches to whole-life performance of a building or assets.
£500,000 – £8m
More information can be found here
The aim of this competition is to invest in innovative projects that go beyond the current state-of-the-art. Projects must result in practical and close-to-market solutions that will improve productivity, quality and performance in the UK construction sector
Scope
Projects must focus on one or more of the following themes:
- digital information management, tools, systems and standards
- modern methods of construction (MMC) and platform based approaches
- whole-life asset performance, including active buildings
- business models, procurement, analytics, benchmarking and metrics
- financial, assurance, warranty and lending products
Successful projects will be expected to work with a range of stakeholders including the Construction Innovation Hub and the Active Building Centre.
Project size
£150,000 – £1.5m
More information can be found here
The aim of this competition is to match the best UK experts and cutting-edge facilities with companies that have analysis or measurement problems.
The aim of this competition is to help businesses address analysis and measurement problems affecting an existing product, process or service. For example, to analyse why a certain percentage defect rate is occurring within an existing production process. These are problems that are best explored by experts and cutting-edge facilities available in the UK.
This is phase 1 of a potential 2-phase competition. A decision to proceed with phase 2 will depend on the outcomes from phase 1. Only successful applicants from phase 1 will be able to apply to take part in phase 2.
Project size
£25,000 – £50,000
More information can be found here
