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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DASA competition: PYRAMID for avionics and mission systems: Phase 2
Opens: 30/09/2025
Closes: 25/11/2025
£3m total funding to further the adoption of the MOD's PYRAMID Reference Architecture in avionics and mission systems
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Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Choose Europe for Science 2025
Opens: 01/10/2025
Closes: 03/12/2025
The new initiative is designed to make research careers in Europe more attractive by offering excellent working conditions and long-term prospects.
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North East Scotland ICURe Discover
Opens: 03/11/2025
Closes: 04/12/2025
Innovate UK ICURe is partnering with University of Aberdeen, Robert Gordon University, ONE Life Sciences and Scottish Enterprise to deliver an ICURe Discover programme in January 2026, specifically for the North East of Scotland.
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National Home Decarbonisation Group: Big Retrofit Challenge 2.0
Opens: 03/10/2025
Closes: 10/11/2025
Seeking innovative solutions for home decarbonisation. 6 shortlisted winners will present their innovation on stage at the National Retrofit Conference.
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PACE (Pathways to Antimicrobial Clinical Efficacy): 2025 Antibacterial Therapeutics
Opens: 01/10/2025
Closes: 05/11/2025
Up to £1 million per project for early-stage, novel, antibacterial therapeutics seeking to treat Gram-negative bacterial infections with high AMR burden.
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National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat) Scaling Innovation Programme – 2025/26
Opens: 25/09/2025
Closes: 07/11/2025
Seeking solutions that directly address challenges in vehicle stop design, travel assistance, and access to information, to create system-wide changes that remove barriers to travel for disabled people.
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Farming Innovation Programme: Feasibility Round 4
Opens: 13/10/2025
Closes: 03/12/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4.8m for feasibility projects to address on-farm or post-farmgate challenges or opportunities.
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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.