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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Farming Futures R&D Fund: low emissions farming
Closing Soon
Opens: 05/05/2025
Closes: 25/06/2025
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million for industrial research projects from the Farming Futures R&D Fund.
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Farming Futures R&D Fund: Precision Breeding
Opens: 05/05/2025
Closes: 25/06/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million for precision breeding of arable and horticultural crops.
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2025 – 2026 Round 2
Opens: 14/04/2025
Closes: 11/06/2025
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults, working with businesses or not for profits, can apply for a share of up to £9m.
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Global Business Innovation Programme: Digital Health, USA
Opens: 22/04/2025
Closes: 08/06/2025
Innovate UK seeks up to 15 ambitious UK small businesses (with under 250 employees) who want to explore digital health opportunities in the USA.
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Turing Way Practitioners Hub 2025 – become an Expert in Residence
Opens: 10/04/2025
Closes: 16/07/2025
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub is inviting expressions of interest to join their third and final cohort of Experts in Residence, as part of the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme.
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Full ADOPT Grant: Round 1
Opens: 28/04/2025
Closes: 25/06/2025
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £2 million for on-farm trial and demonstration projects, to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector.
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ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 1
Opens: 28/04/2025
Closes: 11/06/2025
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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Global Incubator Programme: USA (Houston) Healthtech – Medical Devices - 2025
Opens: 14/04/2025
Closes: 30/05/2025
Delivered in partnership with the Texas Medical Center Innovation (TMCi), Houston, USA and supported by the Department for Business & Trade (DBT), this Global Incubator Programme (GIP) will give medical device companies the opportunity to explore and exploit collaborative innovation and growth opportunities in the US market.
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Global Incubator Programme: Canada - AI for Health
Opens: 14/04/2025
Closes: 01/06/2025
Delivered by Innovate UK, in partnership with MaRS, this Global Incubator Programme (GIP) provides an opportunity for UK-based companies to expand into the North American market and collaborate with one of the world’s largest innovation hubs for AI and healthcare.
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Developing Semiconductor Hardware for Critical Technologies
Opens: 14/04/2025
Closes: 29/05/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million. These feasibility studies will investigate ways to improve semiconductor design and manufacture within the UK to support critical technologies.
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Contracts for Innovation: READ-OUT digital cognitive dementia assessments
Opens: 14/04/2025
Closes: 14/05/2025
Organisations can apply for a single award of up to £600,000, inclusive of VAT, to implement and assess a dementia based digital cognitive assessment (DCA) to be evaluated as part of the READ-OUT study being managed by the University of Oxford.
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HMGCC Co-creation Challenge: Tracking solution for alternative positioning, navigation and timing
Opens: 14/04/2025
Closes: 15/05/2025
HMGCC seek devices that are small in size, weight and power (SWaP) to track government staff, that can be used when satellite systems such as Global Positioning System (GPS) aren’t available.
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Defence Innovation Loans 2025-26
Opens: 18/03/2025
Closes: 24/03/2026
Loans of up to £1m to help convert your mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition, with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum.
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Contracts for Innovation: FOAK 2025 – Platform Train Interface
Opens: 07/04/2025
Closes: 28/05/2025
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7m across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution.
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Contracts for Innovation: FOAK 2025 – Personal Safety
Opens: 07/04/2025
Closes: 28/05/2025
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7m across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution.
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Contracts for Innovation: FOAK 2025 – Bridge Strikes
Opens: 07/04/2025
Closes: 28/05/2025
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7m across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution.
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Contracts for Innovation: FOAK 2025 – AI for Complex Processes
Opens: 07/04/2025
Closes: 28/05/2025
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7m across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution.
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Innovate UK Growth Catalyst for late-stage startups: Clean Energy and Climate Technologies
Opens: 02/05/2025
Closes: 02/07/2025
Innovate UK is piloting a new programme called Growth Catalyst. It seeks to accelerate highly innovative startups on their journey to becoming successful scale-ups and beyond.
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AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025
Opens: 01/04/2025
Closes: 28/04/2025
Trilateral international maritime defence challenge, focused on undersea Command, Control and Communications.
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187th European Mathematics Study Group with Industry
Opens: 01/04/2025
Closes: 01/07/2025
An invitation to bring pressing problems in data science and related fields to be solved during a five-day mathematical study group.
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Using maths to tackle challenges in energy, green economy & data science
Opens: 01/04/2025
Closes: 07/05/2025
Join King’s College’s “Industry Needs and Research Opportunities” workshops centred around Data Science, Banking and Finance.