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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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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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Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies: applications with academic partners
Opens: 09/05/2026
Closes: 13/05/2026
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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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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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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Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator 2026
Opens: 22/04/2026
Closes: 01/06/2026
A DfT-funded programme fast-tracking the adoption of commercial ready solutions to address challenges in the UK’s freight and logistics sector.
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Contracts for Innovation: Cyber scale in critical sectors
Opens: 01/05/2026
Closes: 10/06/2026
Organisations can apply for up to £300k each to develop, demonstrate and commercialise their cyber security solution in real end user environments within critical sector organisations.
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iX Challenge: Steam Delivery Optimisation for Food Factory Use
Opens: 28/04/2026
Closes: 09/06/2026
Prima Foods seeks to install steam valves and steam metering systems to connect and control two non-identical steam ovens, allowing precise management of steam distribution, reducing energy waste, improving product consistency and enhancing yields and throughput.
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Innovate UK Venture Builder Pilot Expression of Interest
Opens: 22/04/2026
Closes: 22/05/2026
Up to £150,000 per SME to support new deep-tech spin-outs in Frontier AI, Engineering Biology, or Advanced Materials & Manufacturing, and to help them in raising their first significant investment. This is the Expression of Interest stage of the competition.
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Advanced manufacturing supply chain innovation: CRD
Opens: 27/04/2026
Closes: 10/06/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6.5 million for collaborative industrial research to make supply chains more productive, resource efficient and resilient.
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UKDI Biosecurity Frontiers: Defending against biological threats
Opens: 17/04/2026
Closes: 10/06/2026
This competition seeks innovations to strengthen the UK's ability to detect, prevent and respond to biological risks.
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Biofilms ICURe Discover
Opens: 14/04/2026
Closes: 08/05/2026
Biofilms ICURe Discover is an upcoming ICURe programme themed around biofilms across all applications including healthcare, engineering, marine, food and agriculture, the built environment, water and wastewater, energy, personal care and home care.
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ARIA: Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies - TA1 full proposals
Opens: 13/04/2026
Closes: 11/05/2026
Up to £4m per project for engineering non-surgical neural interfaces in three focus areas.
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ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 8
Opens: 15/04/2026
Closes: 29/05/2026
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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Metal recovery from wastewater integrated hydrogen production systems
Opens: 16/04/2026
Closes: 29/05/2026
HydroStar Europe Ltd is seeking innovators to provide selective, ideally electrochemical or electrolysis based, recovery solutions for metals such as magnesium, lithium and copper from wastewater streams.
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ACTASAP Pathfinder 2026
Opens: 14/04/2026
Closes: 29/04/2026
ACTASAP Pathfinder is a bootcamp delivered over four days for academics in Advanced Connectivity Technologies, providing the necessary guidance and support for researchers to commercialise their research and innovations.
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Battery innovation feasibility studies round 2
Opens: 09/04/2026
Closes: 28/05/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million for innovation in battery technologies for electrification.
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Battery innovation concept development round 2
Opens: 09/04/2026
Closes: 28/05/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification.