Opportunities Archive
Here you can view details of archived opportunities and funding. These are no longer open for applications and should only be used for reference.
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Entrepreneurship Clinics: Underrepresented Founders in Advanced Materials
Opens 27/08/2025
Closes: 09/09/2025
A new pilot initiative designed to support 12 underrepresented early-stage founders innovating in advanced materials, battery materials, or critical materials.
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Contracts for Innovation: Improving health outcomes for women and girls across Wales
Opens 21/08/2025
Closes: 10/09/2025
The Welsh Government seek real-world demonstrations of ways to improve healthcare outcomes for women and girls.
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Biotechnology Business Incubation Centre 2025
Opens 11/08/2025
Closes: 07/09/2025
Supporting early-stage biotechnology companies to turn their innovative technology concepts into market reality
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UK Horizons: Frontier Research Contractors
Opens 01/08/2025
Closes: 31/08/2025
Up to £100,000 each for organisations to tackle multidisciplinary, engineering-heavy, or user-focused tasks that fall outside the scope of existing R&D organisations.
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Glasgow ICURe Discover
Opens 05/08/2025
Closes: 04/09/2025
Innovate UK ICURe is partnering with Scottish Enterprise and University of Glasgow to deliver an ICURe Discover programme in September 2025, specifically for the Glasgow region.
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ICURe Discover for Women Entrepreneurs - October 2025
Opens 06/08/2025
Closes: 08/09/2025
An 8-week, part-time online potential market exploration programme for women researchers and technicians, with up to £2,500 support for market discovery activities.
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Sovereign AI - Proof of concept
Opens 11/08/2025
Closes: 10/09/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.6 million for the development of proof of concept demonstrators of AI technologies with state of the art performance. This is to support the UK’s AI sovereignty objectives.
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Global Business Innovation Programme - Additive Manufacturing, Germany
Opens 06/08/2025
Closes: 10/09/2025
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious innovative companies to participate in a 9-12 month programme to help them grow in the German market, including attending Formnext in Frankfurt.
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ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 3
Opens 24/07/2025
Closes: 03/09/2025
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.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Synthetic environment tools to predict behaviour
Opens 04/08/2025
Closes: 04/09/2025
HMGCC seeks to evaluate tools that provide a synthetic environment to simulate population responses to scenarios such as widespread disinformation or terrorism.
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DIATOMIC Digital Accelerator for West Midlands-based innovators
Opens 21/07/2025
Closes: 31/08/2025
West Midlands-based innovators with a digital twin solution for cities and places are invited to address six challenge areas.
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HMRC Competition to Tackle Deliberate Evasion and Help Close the Tax Gap
Opens 21/07/2025
Closes: 26/08/2025
HMRC invite proposals for a range of innovative solutions to close the tax gap and tackle evasion behaviour.
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DRIVE35 Scale-up: Feasibility Studies
Opens 14/07/2025
Closes: 03/09/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for feasibility studies into UK manufacturing of zero emission vehicle technologies. This funding is from the Department for Business and Trade.
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TMF AI ICURe Explore – September 2025
Opens 14/07/2025
Closes: 18/08/2025
TMF AI ICURe Explore is a fast-paced, full-time, 16-week market exploration programme. Up to £35,000 for Entrepreneurial Lead’s salary and costs.
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Horizon Europe Brokerage Event in Poland for automotive UK innovators
Opens 07/07/2025
Closes: 31/07/2025
Automotive UK innovators are invited to apply to attend a Horizon Europe Brokerage Event in Poland which will take place on 21-22 October 2025.
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Material Focus Circular Electricals Fund
Opens 14/05/2025
Closes: 14/08/2025
The £1m Circular Electricals Fund supports ideas to keep electricals – and their materials – in use for longer – through innovation in material use and recovery, design and business models.
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Future Flight: Regional Demonstrator 2
Opens 10/07/2025
Closes: 17/07/2025
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £400,000 for the development of regional demonstrators of drone, electric take off and landing (eVTOL) or zero emission conventional take off and landing (CTOL) aircraft operations in the UK.
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Contracts for Innovation: Resource Efficient Construction Impacts
Opens 14/07/2025
Closes: 27/08/2025
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop the impact validation of a demonstrated resource efficiency solution.
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Contracts for Innovation: Resource Efficient Chemicals Impacts
Opens 14/07/2025
Closes: 27/08/2025
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop the impact validation of a demonstrated resource efficiency solution.
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Contracts for Innovation: Resource Efficient Automotive Impacts
Opens 14/07/2025
Closes: 27/08/2025
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop the impact validation of a demonstrated resource efficiency solution.
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Global Business Innovation Programme: Engineering biology – Japan
Opens 08/07/2025
Closes: 25/07/2025
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious innovative companies to participate in its Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP).
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