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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Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2025 – 2026 Round 1
Opens: 17/02/2025
Closes: 09/04/2025
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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ARIA: Safeguarded AI: Technical Areas 1.2 + 1.3
Opens: 11/02/2025
Closes: 09/04/2025
Backed by £14.2m, ARIA are looking to fund teams of software developers to build the scaffolding needed for the success of the Safeguarded AI programme.
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Global Business Innovation Programme in the USA - Maritime Infrastructure Technology
Opens: 05/02/2025
Closes: 23/02/2025
Innovate UK invites globally ambitious companies with expertise in maritime infrastructure technology to participate in a Global Business Innovation Programme with the USA.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Sustainable and Non-food Alternative Sources of Citric Acid
Opens: 10/02/2025
Closes: 21/03/2025
LUSH Cosmetics invites solutions which can address the challenge of producing sustainable sources of citric acid.
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Innovation Awards for Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnerships: UK-Brazil-Africa
Opens: 03/03/2025
Closes: 07/05/2025
International consortia can apply for up to £100,000 for climate-smart agriculture for sustainable food production systems in Ghana or Nigeria.
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Travel Grants for Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnerships: UK-Brazil-Africa
Opens: 03/03/2025
Closes: 07/05/2025
Consortia can apply for up to £20,000 for travel relating to climate-smart agriculture for sustainable food production systems in Ghana and Nigeria.
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European Space Agency: Space For Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture
Opens: 17/03/2025
Closes: 25/04/2025
Funding for European teams interested in developing services integrating technology solutions to the smart cities and urban agricultural sector.
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European Space Agency: Space For Sustainable, Connected and Liveable Cities
Opens: 28/03/2025
Closes: 30/09/2025
ESA invites proposals for feasibility studies and demonstration projects to leverage space-based services and applications for smart cities.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Miniature detectors sought to spot drones
Opens: 03/02/2025
Closes: 20/02/2025
Drone detectors, small enough to fit inside a pocket or a hand, are sought in a new challenge launched by HMGCC (His Majesty’s Government Communications Centre).
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Global Business Innovation Programme in Taiwan - Semiconductors
Opens: 28/01/2025
Closes: 28/02/2025
Innovate UK invites globally ambitious companies with expertise in semiconductor technology to participate in a Global Business Innovation Programme with Taiwan.
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Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund Round 4 Discovery - January 2025
Opens: 27/01/2025
Closes: 26/02/2025
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30m (exc. VAT), for projects on network development, heat flexibility, resilience and net zero.
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APCUK: ARMD4 Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator 4
Opens: 27/01/2025
Closes: 02/04/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25m for late stage R&D to accelerate transition to zero emission vehicles and a net zero automotive future.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Understanding Corrosion and Geometry of Sheet Pile Walls
Opens: 27/01/2025
Closes: 14/03/2025
The Environment Agency seek ways to non-intrusively assess the as-built geometry and condition of the out of sight aspects of steel sheet pile retaining wall assets.
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Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 6
Opens: 24/01/2025
Closes: 16/04/2025
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £30m for innovative Smart Shipping technologies, clean maritime technologies, and skills for maritime decarbonisation.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Maintaining the Thermal Comfort within a Manufacturing Unit
Opens: 27/01/2025
Closes: 07/03/2025
Lush seeks solutions for thermal comfort within their perfumes production unit in Poole, UK, where constant air extraction is required to meet ATEX directives.
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ARIA: Programmable Plants - opportunity seeds
Opens: 22/01/2025
Closes: 09/04/2025
ARIA are looking to fund bold ideas within the Programmable Plants opportunity space with up to £500k each.
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Oxford Mathematics Collaboration Opportunity
Opens: 22/01/2025
Closes: 31/01/2025
The students on the University of Oxford Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing MSc course are trained to take industrial challenges, formulate them as mathematical models, and use the models to provide insight for companies.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Environmentally Valid Weed Prevention
Opens: 22/01/2025
Closes: 05/03/2025
The iX programme is supporting Ringway and VINCI Facilities to find environmentally better alternatives to glyphosate herbicides for the suppression of weeds around the built environment.
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Clean Hydrogen Partnership: call for proposals 2025
Opens: 15/01/2025
Closes: 23/04/2025
The Clean Hydrogen Partnership launches its new call with a budget of € 184.5 million for projects to support the creation of cutting-edge hydrogen technologies.
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European Space Agency: Space For Insurance Technology
Opens: 30/04/2025
Closes: 06/06/2025
Offers funding of up to €75k per project to European teams interested in developing services integrating technology solutions to the insurance sector.
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ARIA: Mathematics for Safe AI - opportunity seeds
Opens: 15/01/2025
Closes: 11/02/2025
ARIA will fund high-potential proposals to leverage mathematics to ensure that powerful AI systems interact safely and as intended, with up to £500k each.