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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Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund Round 5 Discovery Cycle 6
Opens: 27/05/2026
Closes: 24/06/2026
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative Discovery Phase Projects that meet the Round 5 challenges. This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.
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Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund Discovery Cycle 6
Opens: 27/05/2026
Closes: 24/06/2026
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative Discovery Phase Projects that meet the Innovation Challenges. This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.
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ARIA: Safeguarded AI - Cybersecurity
Opens: 18/05/2026
Closes: 01/07/2026
ARIA offers funding of £2m-£3.5m per team for blue teams creating cybersecurity verified by AI and a red team pen-testing using AI tools.
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Transport Research and Innovation Grants (TRIG), Cohort 19
Opens: 11/05/2026
Closes: 05/06/2026
Funding to develop feasibility studies, proofs of concept, or prototypes to shape a safer, greener, accessible, and more resilient transport network.
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High Assurance Detection Systems in UK Airports (HADes) 2026
Opens: 14/05/2026
Closes: 19/06/2026
The competition aims to enhance UK airports’ checkpoint security screening capability, focusing on alarm resolution and any operating concept that can enhance the performance of checkpoint systems to screen aviation passengers and their cabin baggage.
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iX Challenge - Industrial Voltage Resilience
Opens: 15/05/2026
Closes: 25/06/2026
The challenge is to identify cost-effective, behind-the-meter solutions that can reduce the frequency of electrical trips in a short duration voltage excursion scenario to improve site resilience and enhance site reliability.
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Contracts for Innovation: First of a Kind (FOAK) Rail Programme 2026
Opens: 11/05/2026
Closes: 24/06/2026
Organisations can apply for a share of £4.3 million, inclusive of VAT, across eight themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing, and demonstrate their solution.
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Defra Farming Innovation Investor Partnership 2026
Opens: 11/05/2026
Closes: 17/06/2026
UK registered micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £5 million to develop innovative farming solutions. This must align with private investment from selected investor partners.
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Sustainable Chemical Supply Chains and Engineering Biology Innovation Exchange
Opens: 11/05/2026
Closes: 22/06/2026
An Innovation Exchange (iX) inviting industry led challenges to strengthen sustainable and resilient chemical supply chains through collaboration.
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Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies: applications with academic partners
Opens: 09/05/2026
Closes: 14/05/2026
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.
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Battery Innovation Programme: Battery skills initiatives
Opens: 20/04/2026
Closes: 18/06/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for up to £1.2m per project to establish or scale regional skills initiatives for battery manufacturing and its supply chain. This funding is provided through the Battery Innovation Programme.
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ICURe Discover Sprint for Women Entrepreneurs - June 2026
Opens: 05/05/2026
Closes: 01/06/2026
Innovate UK ICURe Discover Sprint is an intensive market exploration programme designed to support researchers and technicians in exploring the commercial potential of their ideas.
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Contracts for Innovation: Boosting fathers’ engagement to improve child outcomes
Opens: 05/05/2026
Closes: 10/06/2026
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop innovative interventions, technologies, and frameworks that boost fathers’ engagement to improve children’s learning and development outcomes.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Automated audio capture and transcription for Defence wargaming
Opens: 11/05/2026
Closes: 11/06/2026
HMGCC Co-Creation is launching a challenge to automatically capture audio and transcribe conversations and decisions in the rapid pace and high-pressure environment of a wargame.
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National Materials Innovation Programme: Feasibility studies Rd 2
Opens: 04/05/2026
Closes: 24/06/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for feasibility studies. These studies aim to speed the translation of advanced materials innovations in three prioritised high growth themes and one strategic opportunity theme.
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Dual-use aviation systems and autonomy
Opens: 05/05/2026
Closes: 03/06/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million for the development of aviation technologies and systems that support both civil and military use cases. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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Counter UAS (Uncrewed Aerial Systems) Technologies
Opens: 05/05/2026
Closes: 03/06/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5m to develop dual use (civil & military) technologies to counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS).
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Technology enabled scrap inspection and residual quantification to enable low-carbon, circular steelmaking
Opens: 28/04/2026
Closes: 05/06/2026
Tata Steel UK invites innovators to provide solutions for real‑time digital scrap inspection, identification of coatings/contamination, and quantification of residual elements to support high‑quality, low‑residual EAF steelmaking.
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Automated bulk scrap sampling for EAF steelmaking
Opens: 28/04/2026
Closes: 05/06/2026
Tata Steel UK invites innovators to propose fit for purpose bulk scrap sampling solutions capable of extracting representative samples from highly heterogeneous scrap deliveries during unloading or controlled material flow.
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Global Incubator Programme: Agri-Tech Australia Farmers2Founders (F2F)
Opens: 05/05/2026
Closes: 21/06/2026
Innovate UK seeks innovative Agri-Tech companies to participate in an acceleration programme to support growth by exploring the potential of the Australian market.
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UK Defence Innovation: Map the Gap (Phase 3)
Opens: 22/04/2026
Closes: 16/06/2026
£2m total funding for proposals that can remotely assess terrain stability and measure rivers and nearby areas, to support safe and rapid traversing of land forces.