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Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies: applications with academic partners
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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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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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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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Contracts for Innovation: Enabling Commercial Quantum Networking
Opens: 14/04/2026
Closes: 20/05/2026
Organisations can apply for a share of £20m to develop a deployable prototype of an enabling component or sub-system for commercial quantum networking.
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ARIA: Universal Fabricators - full proposals
Opens: 01/04/2026
Closes: 05/05/2026
ARIA's £50m Manufacturing Abundance programme seeks to harness proteins to produce a functionally universal range of materials at scale.
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Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies
Opens: 01/04/2026
Closes: 13/05/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25m to develop secure, sustainable or sovereign connectivity technologies that support the UK’s Advanced Connectivity Technologies programme.
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Global Incubator Programme: Agri-Tech USA THRIVE, cohort 1
Opens: 01/04/2026
Closes: 28/04/2026
Innovate UK seeks innovative Agri-Tech companies to participate in an acceleration programme to support growth by exploring the potential of the USA market.
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Global Incubator Programme - Agri-Tech, New Zealand 2026: cohort 1
Opens: 01/04/2026
Closes: 14/04/2026
Innovate UK seeks innovative Agri-Tech companies to participate in an acceleration programme to support growth by exploring the potential of the New Zealand market.
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UK Space Agency: General Support Technology Programme - Open Innovation
Opens: 01/03/2026
Closes: 11/05/2026
The UK Space Agency offers funding for developing and maturing space technologies that address emerging needs or market opportunities, enabling industry‑driven innovation.
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iX Challenge: Whole Estate Renewable Energy Master Planning and Decision Support
Opens: 31/03/2026
Closes: 08/05/2026
A Welsh business seeks a robust, practical and impartial master plan for transitioning to a resilient, low carbon, long term energy system.
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ARIA: Scaling Trust Arena
Opens: 27/03/2026
Closes: 14/04/2026
Up to £10m to design and construct a digital and cyber-physical arena for open competitions designed to test AI systems’ capabilities
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iX Challenge: Designing a Smart Local Energy System for a Circular Economy Park
Opens: 26/03/2026
Closes: 06/05/2026
CWM Environmental is seeking innovators to deliver a feasibility study into a Smart Local Energy System (SLES) / microgrid approach for Nantycaws (CWM Gwyrdd).
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iX Challenge - Modular Hydrogen Separation for Small Scale Pilot Waste Facilities
Opens: 24/03/2026
Closes: 27/04/2026
The Innovation Exchange (iX) programme is supporting an energy technology company developing waste‑to‑hydrogen and waste‑to‑energy systems to identify innovators who can design small‑scale hydrogen separation solutions for pilot‑scale waste pyrolysis facilities.
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iX Challenge - Autonomous Robotic Inspection Platform
Opens: 23/03/2026
Closes: 04/05/2026
RR-SMR is looking for highly autonomous robotic platforms capable of performing repeatable plant inspections within the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) environment.
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Agri-Food Tech Contracts for Innovation Cymru Phase 1 Challenge
Opens: 17/03/2026
Closes: 24/04/2026
Seeking effective and environmentally acceptable alternatives to current bracken control methods to support the delivery of sustainable land management in Wales.
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Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chains: Potential High Growth SMEs
Opens: 18/03/2026
Closes: 22/04/2026
UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2 million for pre-commercialisation projects.
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Secure Software for Resilient Growth
Opens: 16/03/2026
Closes: 29/04/2026
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.
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AI Champions: Frontier AI Phase 1
Opens: 17/03/2026
Closes: 29/04/2026
UK registered SME businesses can apply for a share of up to £3m to deliver feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies.
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iX Challenge - Reducing gas network purge and vent methane emissions
Opens: 10/03/2026
Closes: 18/05/2026
Cadent Gas is looking for innovative solutions that can significantly reduce or eliminate purging and venting emissions during gas network operations.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Smart personal assistant for security researchers
Opens: 16/03/2026
Closes: 07/05/2026
HMGCC Co-Creation is launching a new 12-week funded challenge to develop a smart personal assistant for security researchers.