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General & Misc
UK – Germany Bilateral: Collaborative R&D
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
7/2/2023
Closes:
7/6/2023
The aim of this competition is to support UK and German business-led collaboration in innovation with grant funding. Innovate UK will support UK businesses to collaborate successfully with German counterparts and build your global growth prospects.
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General & Misc
UK-South Korea Collaborative R&D Round 2
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
13/3/2023
Closes:
7/6/2023
The aim of this competition is to fund business-led, collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects focused on industrial research. This is for innovative proposals developed between the UK and South Korea.
Energy
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Net Zero Hydrogen Fund: Strand 2 Capital Expenditure Round 2
Programme:
Opens:
11/4/2023
Closes:
7/6/2023
This competition will provide capital expenditure (CAPEX) to support low carbon projects to take a Final Investment Decision (FID) and begin deployment in the early 2020s. Your project must not require support from a hydrogen production business model as these projects are covered in Strands 3 and 4 of the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF).
General & Misc
Net Zero Living Digital Accelerator round 1
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
24/4/2023
Closes:
7/6/2023
Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £150,000 and £300,000.
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General & Misc
Innovate UK Smart Grants: January 2023
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
19/1/2023
Closes:
14/6/2023
This competition aims to invest in innovation, world-leading ideas, designed for swift and successful commercialisation. Ideas need to be genuinely new and novel, not just disruptive within their sector.
General & Misc
Innovate UK Smart grants: January 2023
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
19/1/2023
Closes:
14/6/2023
Projects of 6 to 18 months must have total eligible project costs between £100,000 and £500,000 and can be single or collaborative. 19 to 36 month projects must have total eligible project costs between £100,000 and £2 million and must be collaborative.
Digital, AI & Machine Learning
General & Misc
SBRI: Quantum Catalyst Fund, phase 1 and phase 2
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
29/5/2023
Closes:
27/6/2023
Grant award: Phase 1 projects can range in size up to total costs of £120,000, inclusive of VAT for up to 3 months. Phase 2 projects can range between £1 million and £2.5 million, inclusive of VAT, for up to 15 months.
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Energy
Energy Catalyst Round 10: Early Stage
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
27/2/2023
Closes:
28/6/2023
The aim of this competition is to accelerate the innovations needed to create new or improved clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or Indo-Pacific regions.
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Energy
Energy Catalyst Round 10: Mid Stage
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
27/2/2023
Closes:
28/6/2023
Accelerating the innovations needed to create new or improved clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or Indo-Pacific regions. Creating a just and inclusive energy transition,
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Energy
Energy Catalyst Round 10: Late Stage
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
27/2/2023
Closes:
28/6/2023
The aim of this competition is to accelerate the innovations needed to create new or improved clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or the Indo-Pacific region. Creating a just and inclusive energy transition, and extending the benefits of clean energy to all to meet sustainable development goals (SDGs) 7 and 13.
General & Misc
Energy Catalyst Round 10: Early Stage
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
27/2/2023
Closes:
28/6/2023
Energy Catalyst Round 10
General & Misc
Energy Catalyst Round 10: Mid Stage
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
27/2/2023
Closes:
28/6/2023
General & Misc
Energy Catalyst Round 10: Late Stage
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
27/2/2023
Closes:
28/6/2023
General & Misc
Health & Life Sciences
Advancing precision medicine: Round 2
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
15/5/2023
Closes:
28/6/2023
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £20 million, over two rounds of this competition, in industry-led collaborative R&D innovation projects. Up to £10 million has been allocated to this round of the competition.
Manufacturing & Materials
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Novel low-emission food production systems: Investor Partnership
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
8/5/2023
Closes:
5/7/2023
The aim of this competition is to support UK registered micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop novel food production systems. These will be to create new sources of resource efficient, low-emission foods, particularly proteins, while delivering healthy and sustainable diets. Your project must progress emerging novel food production systems towards commercial viability with the ability to supply mainstream consumer markets.
General & Misc
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Future Economy Investor Partnerships SME: round 2
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
12/5/2023
Closes:
5/7/2023
Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, has selected a pool of investor partners. These investor partners have demonstrated that they have the credibility, capability, capacity and appetite to invest in innovative, technology-led businesses that align with our programmes. These programmes will focus on the future economy as described in our plan for action.
General & Misc
Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition: Round 9
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
11/5/2023
Closes:
12/7/2023
Innovate UK is offering up to £25 million in loans to micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Loans are for highly innovative late stage research and development (R&D) projects with the best potential for the future. There should be a clear route to commercialisation and economic impact.
Energy
General & Misc
Faraday Battery Challenge Round 6 Innovation Feasibility Studies
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
16/5/2023
Closes:
12/7/2023
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £10 million in innovation projects across the two strands of this competition. This funding is from the Faraday Battery Challenge (FBC).
Energy
General & Misc
Faraday Battery Challenge Round 6 Innovation CR&D
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
16/5/2023
Closes:
12/7/2023
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million for innovation in battery technologies for electrification. This funding is from the Faraday Battery Challenge.
General & Misc
Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition: Round 9
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
11/5/2023
Closes:
12/7/2023
This competition offers loans to help businesses overcome barriers to their innovations becoming a successful, commercial reality. The aim is to make a considerable economic impact which results in significant, sustainable business growth.
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General & Misc
UK-Taiwan Collaborative R&D
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
24/4/2023
Closes:
19/7/2023
The aim of this competition is to fund business led, collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects focused on industrial research, for innovative proposals developed between the UK and Taiwan.
General & Misc
UK-Taiwan Collaborative R&D
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
24/4/2023
Closes:
19/7/2023
General & Misc
Health & Life Sciences
Farming Futures: Environmental resilience, Feasibility
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
22/5/2023
Closes:
19/7/2023
The aim of this competition is to fund collaborative development of projects with ambitious solutions. Solutions provided will enable sustainable and resilient farming through addressing biotic and abiotic stresses in agriculture, horticulture and forestry to
General & Misc
Health & Life Sciences
Farming Futures: Environmental resilience, Industrial research
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
22/5/2023
Closes:
19/7/2023
The aim of this competition is to fund collaborative development of projects with ambitious solutions. Solutions provided will enable sustainable and resilient farming through addressing biotic and abiotic stresses in agriculture, horticulture and forestry to:
General & Misc
Digital, AI & Machine Learning
Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility: Mass Transit 2
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
25/5/2023
Closes:
19/7/2023
The aim of this competition is to target early commercial self-driving vehicle opportunities and support the UK supply chain to grow and fill technology gaps necessary for their deployment.
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General & Misc
UK – Switzerland Bilateral: Collaborative R&D
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
17/4/2023
Closes:
26/7/2023
The aim of this competition is to support UK-Swiss international business-led innovation collaboration. Through grant funding Innovate UK will support UK businesses to collaborate with Swiss counterparts for their mutual global growth prospects.
General & Misc
UK – Switzerland Bilateral: Collaborative R&D
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
17/4/2023
Closes:
26/7/2023
General & Misc
Energy
Design Foundations Round 2: Net Zero Living
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
31/5/2023
Closes:
26/7/2023
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £4 million in innovation projects that use people-centred and planet-centred design methods to transform where we live and work into net zero places. This funding is from Innovate UK.
Energy
General & Misc
Design Foundations Round 2: Responsive
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
31/5/2023
Closes:
26/7/2023
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation will invest up to £4 million in innovation projects that use people-centred and system-aware design methods. This funding is from Innovate UK.
General & Misc
Energy
Engineering Biology Collaborative R&D Round 2
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
30/5/2023
Closes:
26/7/2023
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £6.7 million in this Engineering Biology collaborative R&D competition.The competition is part of UKRI’s National Engineering Biology Programme (NEBP).
General & Misc
Health & Life Sciences
UK-South Korea Digital Health CRD
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
19/6/2023
Closes:
2/8/2023
The aim of this competition is to fund business led, collaborative, research and development (CR&D) projects. Projects must aim to deliver economic, knowledge and health benefit through industrial innovation and academic collaboration in the area of Digital Health for the UK and South Korea. UK applicants can apply for up to a maximum grant of £750,000
General & Misc
India – UK Collaborative R&D for industrial sustainability
Programme:
Innovate UK
Opens:
31/5/2023
Closes:
6/9/2023
UK applicants must apply for a grant funding request of between £100,000 and £300,000 per project.
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Defence & Security
Open call: Integrate information and physical activity across all domains
Programme:
DASA
Opens:
30/7/2020
Closes:
1/1/2050
DASA are seeking proposals which provide field communication capabilities that are resistant to attack but continue to perform if degraded and are secure.
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Defence & Security
Open Call: Simulating future battlespace complexity
Programme:
DASA
Opens:
30/7/2020
Closes:
1/1/2050
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.
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Defence & Security
Open call: Delivering agile command and control
Programme:
DASA
Opens:
30/7/2020
Closes:
1/1/2050
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.
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Horizon Europe Guarantee
Programme:
Horizon Europe
Opens:
16/5/2022
Closes:
1/1/2050
This funding is to deliver the UK government’s Horizon Europe guarantee.
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Horizon Europe Guarantee - EIT KICs 2022
Programme:
Horizon Europe
Opens:
23/5/2022
Closes:
1/1/2050
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.
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