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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HMGCC Co-Creation: Security watermarks for physical documents
Opens: 06/10/2025
Closes: 06/11/2025
HMGCC seeks to develop new processes and manufacturing concepts, enabling small-scale, agile production runs of security watermarked documents.
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Connected Places Catapult: HS2 Accelerator 8.0
Opens: 23/09/2025
Closes: 31/10/2025
High Speed 2 Limited (HS2) seeks innovative small businesses to develop new technology business cases and funded pilot projects for the rail scheme.
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DASA Competition: Novel Technology for Intervening in Non-Compressible Haemorrhage
Opens: 16/09/2025
Closes: 04/11/2025
DMS & UKRI are seeking novel interventions starting at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 2-4, in both combat and civilian settings.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Addiction Healthcare Goals - Catalysing Innovation
Opens: 22/09/2025
Closes: 17/10/2025
Aiming to support innovative pharmaceutical and MedTech tools and approaches for improving treatment outcomes, enhancing recovery and reducing drug and alcohol related harm.
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Global Business Innovation Programme - AI Enhanced Manufacturing, USA (Boston & Pittsburgh)
Opens: 23/09/2025
Closes: 14/11/2025
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious innovative companies to explore AI manufacturing market opportunities with a visit to the USA.
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Farmed animals and aquaculture SPARK Awards
Opens: 20/10/2025
Closes: 26/11/2025
UK-registered academic institutions or Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) can apply for up to £20,000 to collaborate with a UK-registered SME to accelerate the development of innovative products, processes or services to drive sustainable production within the UK farmed animal or aquaculture sectors.
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Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund Round 5 Discovery - October 2025
Opens: 22/09/2025
Closes: 22/10/2025
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30m for collaborative Discovery Phase Projects that meet the Round 5 challenges.
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Resource efficiency for resilience and sustainability: feasibility studies
Opens: 22/09/2025
Closes: 03/11/2025
Up to £25k per project for innovative feasibility studies in novel, sustainable, low carbon materials and manufacturing, including seaweed processing.
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DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund - closed April 2026
Opens: 17/09/2025
Closes: 28/04/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million to create scale up manufacturing facilities for zero emission vehicle technologies.
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Hydrogen Innovation Initiative Demonstrations 2025-26
Opens: 17/09/2025
Closes: 06/10/2025
Up to £100,000 per project (including VAT) to help deliver real‑world hydrogen demonstration activity.
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Contracts for Innovation: Quantum Technologies for Transport - Phase 1
Opens: 15/09/2025
Closes: 15/10/2025
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop use cases and business cases.
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Global Business Innovation Programme - Critical Minerals and Materials, Canada
Opens: 17/09/2025
Closes: 07/10/2025
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious innovative companies to participate in its Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP).
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HMGCC Co-Creation: Geolocation and detection of deepfakes from photos
Opens: 22/09/2025
Closes: 23/10/2025
Join a national security challenge to create photo analysis tools to geolocate and detect deepfakes in photos
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UK-Netherlands Co-Innovation and Testbeds Pilot for Quantum Tech
Opens: 15/09/2025
Closes: 28/10/2025
Registered businesses in UK and Netherlands can apply to collaborate on joint projects to advance the development of quantum technologies and enable their commercial use cases.
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European Space Agency: Green Hydrogen As a Sustainable Energy Source
Opens: 09/10/2025
Closes: 06/11/2025
ESA invites proposals for feasibility studies for services that explore innovative uses of space technology to advance green hydrogen as a sustainable energy source.
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European Space Agency: Bioengineering In The Space Environment
Opens: 29/09/2025
Closes: 29/10/2025
€200k per project for enabling studies to support industry in assessing the potential of bioengineering in microgravity environments.
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Contracts for Innovation: Welsh Government Agri-Food Tech Challenge
Opens: 27/08/2025
Closes: 24/09/2025
This challenge seeks innovations that lead to increased efficiency, productivity and sustainability in Welsh agriculture and agri-food supply chains.
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Mentoring Programme for the UK Battery Sector
Opens: 15/09/2025
Closes: 29/09/2025
We are launching a fully funded Mentor Training and Mentoring Programme for early-career individuals working and researching in the battery industries, designed to build meaningful connections across the UK’s battery supply chain.
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Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst Accelerator – Hospital to Community
Opens: 10/09/2025
Closes: 31/10/2025
Supporting up to 10 early stage startups working on remote monitoring, at-home diagnostics, new community care models, and digital tools that ease hospital pressure.
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Global Business Innovation Programme – Battery Tech, Germany
Opens: 15/09/2025
Closes: 26/10/2025
Join Innovate UK's exclusive programme for innovative companies to explore battery technology opportunities in Germany.
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Have your say on a new standard for the built environment to support the use of AI.
Opens: 10/09/2025
Closes: 09/10/2025
As part of the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme, BSI is developing a new standard for SMEs to advance the use of AI in the built environment sector through a better understanding of data and information standards, and welcomes your feedback on the draft standard.