Closes: 17th Apr 2020
Key features
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million to respond to new and urgent needs in UK and global communities during and following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Programme: Innovate UK
Award: Share of up to £20 million
Closes: 15th Apr 2020
Key features
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £4 million for collaborative R&D projects addressing major cyber security challenges in the Internet of Things.
Programme: Innovate UK
Award: Share of up to £4 million
Closes: 15th Apr 2020
Key features
Organisations can apply for a share of £100,000 including VAT, to develop an air quality monitor to provide information and advice on pollutants in the home.
Programme: Innovate UK
Award: Share of up to £100,000
Closes: 17th Apr 2020
Key features
This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is seeking proposals that can provide future offshore windfarm mitigation for UK Air Defence surveillance; including alternative technologies that could fill or remove gaps in radar coverage.
Programme: DASA
Award: Share of up to £2 million
Closes: 22nd Apr 2020
Key features
Opportunity to apply for a share of up to £25 million to deliver ambitious or disruptive R&D innovations that can make a significant impact on the UK economy.
Programme: Innovate UK
Award: Share of up to £25 million
Closes: 13th May 2020
Key features
UK businesses can apply for up to £5.8 million to collaborate on a digital security by design demonstrator project in which an additional technology ‘ingredient’ is required. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
Programme: Innovate UK
Award: Share of up to £5.8 million
Closes: 15th May 2020
Key features
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to support development of 5G enabled transport innovations.
Programme: Innovate UK
Award: Share of up to £2.5 million
Closes: 20th May 2020
Key features
UK businesses with Canadian business partners can apply for a share of up to £2 million, from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, for innovative projects that enhance productivity and sustainability of crop, livestock and aquaculture systems.
Programme: Innovate UK
Award: Share of up to £2 million
Closes: 27th May 2020
Key features
The UK and Sweden have announced a joint funding call for aerospace R&D projects under the EUREKA Network Projects programme.
Programme: ATI
Award: Share of up to €9.46 million
Closes: 28th May 2020
Key features
Cycle 1 of the 2020/21 DASA Open Call for Innovation. The Open Call is looking for innovative ideas to improve the defence and/or security of the UK.
Programme: DASA
Award: View funding competition for more info
Closes: 3rd Jun 2020
Key features
These awards support any stage of the translational research and development pathway, including the clinical development of laboratory-validated technologies or interventions.
Programme: NIHR
Award: No upper funding limit
Closes: 8th Jun 2020
Key features
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) are partnering to launch a call for research proposals on quantum technologies.
Programme: Innovate UK/NSERC
Award: Share of up to £2 million
Closes: 30th Jun 2020
Key features
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million for advanced materials R&D projects partnering with EUREKA country organisations, including South Korea.
Programme: Innovate UK
Award: Share of up to £1 million
Closes: 31st Jul 2020
Key features
A share of up to £18 million available to invest in technologies to recover heat from industrial processes and increase the deployment of such technologies in England and Wales.
Programme: BEIS
Award: Share of £18 million
Closes: 31st Dec 2020
Key features
Proposals are invited for short term projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. This competition has no closing date.
Programme: UKRI
Award: No cap on funding amount
Closes: 26th Aug 2022
Key features
The British Business Bank has announced the first wave of its £250million Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), with the launch of £120million of SME debt finance, which is now available to businesses across the 10 Local Enterprise Partnership areas in the Midlands. Aimed at eliminating regional imbalances in funding, the British Business Bank is keen to support fast-growth organisations and businesses looking to expand into new markets and boost productivity, supporting job creation.
Programme: British Business Bank
Award: Up to £2m in lending and investment