Grant Funding Calls

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UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2 million for pre-commercialisation projects. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2 million

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UK registered SME businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million to deliver feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) technologies with a clear route defensible scale-up. This is funded by Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £3 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million for collaborative projects that enable adoption of the Government’s Software Security Code of Practice to drive growth of secure and resilient software supply chains.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £5 million

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Organisations can apply for a share of £20 million across two competitions. Projects will advance development of pharmaceutical, digital and MedTech tools to improve treatment recovery and prevention of harm and deaths from drug and alcohol addictions.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £20 million

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Organisations can apply for a share of £20 million, inclusive of VAT. Projects will advance development of pharmaceutical, digital and MedTech tools to improve treatment, recovery and prevention of harm and deaths for drug and alcohol addictions.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £20 million

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UK registered government research organisations can apply for grants from £50,000 up to £250,000 to move viable public sector knowledge assets towards commercial readiness. This funding is provided by the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT).

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £250,000

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This UK Defence Innovation themed competition is looking for innovative proposals that are cost competitive, designed for manufacture, and can be scaled in an approximate twelve-month timeframe.

Programme:     UK Defence Innovation

Award:     Share of up to £1 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million to develop secure, sustainable or sovereign connectivity technologies that support the UK’s Advanced Connectivity Technologies programme. This funding is from DSIT.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £25 million

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Organisations can apply for a share of £20 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop a deployable prototype of an enabling component or sub-system for commercial quantum networking.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £20 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7.5 million to support the development and use of digital, automated, and robotic technologies. This aims to improve the speed and efficiency of pharmaceutical process development and manufacturing.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £7.5 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million. This programme focuses on the creation, curation, annotation and exploitation of FAIR-data and benchmarks which will fuel AI industry growth. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £4.5 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification. This funding is from The Battery Innovation Programme.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £25 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million for innovation in battery technologies for electrification. This funding is from the battery innovation programme.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £25 million

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Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a grant of £2,500, to engage an external Project Facilitator to support the development of a Full ADOPT Grant application.

Programme:     Defra

Award:     Share of up to £100,000

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Organisations can apply for up to £14 million in phase 1 to develop, build and validate integrated quantum computing hardware and software to demonstrate commercial scale deployment and applications of your quantum computing solution.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £14 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8 million for projects to accelerate Agri-tech manufacturing. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £8 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for projects to close product technology gaps that are preventing movement towards commercial acceptance, scale up and manufacture. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £5 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million to support Feasibility Studies in Offshore Wind across the two strands of the competition. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £10 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million to support Industrial research in Offshore Wind across the two strands of the competition. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £10 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of £15 million, including VAT, to develop near term, testable solutions that advance the UK’s Secure & Resilient and Sustainable Network Grand Challenges through deployable prototypes on UK testbeds.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £15 million

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Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £5 million for on-farm trial and demonstration projects, to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £5 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to develop feasibility studies for frontier AI and foundation models. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2.5 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £121 million across the three strands of this competition for innovative clean maritime technologies. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £121 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £121 million across the three strands of this competition for innovative clean maritime technologies. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £121 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £121 million across the three strands of this competition for innovative clean maritime technologies. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £121 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million. The funding will be to develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £150 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million. The funding will be to develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £150 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million. The funding will be to develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £150 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million to create scale up manufacturing facilities for zero emission vehicle technologies.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £150 million

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EIT Urban Mobility invites innovators from across Europe to submit a proposal to its Strategic Innovation Open Call, designed to accelerate the deployment of impactful solutions that address the most pressing challenges in urban mobility.

Programme:     EIT Urban Mobility

Award:     EUR 60 million