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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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Game Changers Challenge - Lift it, shift it: An alternative approach to asbestos removal
Closing Soon
Opens: 14/10/2024
Closes: 14/11/2024
Sellafield Ltd requires a safe and cost-effective means to encapsulate and remove asbestos-containing materials from its site.
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European Space Agency: Space For Sustainable Forestry
Apply by 20/12/24.: applications reviewed when received.
ESA seek space-based solutions for forest management, ecosystem improvement, agroforestry, natural disaster response, and carbon storage measurement.
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European Space Agency: Maritime Decarbonisation through Autonomy
Opens: 31/10/2024
Closes: 28/02/2025
Maritime autonomous systems offer transformative opportunities to make the sector cleaner, more energy-efficient, and environmentally sustainable.
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National Home Decarbonisation Group: Big Retrofit Challenge
Opens: 18/10/2024
Closes: 28/11/2024
The ‘Big Retrofit Challenge’ is a bold new competition aimed at unearthing game-changing solutions in home decarbonisation.
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DASA and Atomic Weapons Establishment challenges: Advanced Electronics and Electromechanical Devices
Opens: 14/10/2024
Closes: 10/12/2024
DASA, in conjunction with AWE, is seeking innovative ideas to approach four challenge areas in electronics.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: AI / Novel Technology Red Agent Penetration Testing
Opens: 17/10/2024
Closes: 21/11/2024
A challenge to further the security community’s understanding of AI or any novel technologies that have the capacity to penetration test secure IT environments.
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Contracts for Innovation: Ending Violence Against Women & Girls
Opens: 09/10/2024
Closes: 04/11/2024
Two NI-based challenges: making spaces safer through design and technology, and addressing violence through data and tech innovations.
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Digital Catapult: Smart Nano Technology Access Programme
Opens: 21/10/2024
Closes: 02/12/2024
Connecting industry to expert mentoring, cutting-edge photonics equipment, and future networks testbed facilities (including 5G and IoT).
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Quantum Missions pilot: Quantum Computing and Quantum Networks
Opens: 04/11/2024
Closes: 11/12/2024
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £9.5m for Quantum Computing and Quantum Networks projects.
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ARIA: Safeguarded AI - TA1.4 Sociotechnical Integration
Opens: 15/10/2024
Closes: 02/01/2025
ARIA seek teams from the economic, social, legal and political sciences to consider the sound socio-technical integration of Safeguarded AI systems.
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ARIA: Synthetic Plants - full proposals
Opens: 16/10/2024
Closes: 12/11/2024
Backed by £62.4m, this programme will aim to catalyse a new generation of major crops that are more productive, resilient, and sustainable.
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ARIA: Forecasting Tipping Points - full proposals
Opens: 07/10/2024
Closes: 11/11/2024
Backed by £81m, this program aims to enhance our climate change response by developing an early warning system for tipping points.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: NCA seeks emulated phone technology to help combat crime
Opens: 10/10/2024
Closes: 07/11/2024
The National Crime Agency (NCA) seeks emulated phone technology for alias-based communications.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Cutting eavesdropping risks using AI
Opens: 10/10/2024
Closes: 07/11/2024
HMGCC Co-Creation seeks AI/ML innovations in advanced noise cancellation to explore and test possibilities in government office settings.
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ARIA: Exploring Climate Cooling - full proposals
Opens: 08/11/2024
Closes: 09/12/2024
Backed by £56.8m, this programme will explore whether approaches designed to delay, or avert, climate tipping points could be feasible, scalable, and safe.
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NATO Chief Scientist Grants Programme
Opens: 07/10/2024
Closes: 15/11/2024
Total funding €500,000, supporting science and technology projects that contribute to global security and scientific advancement.
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Work-related digital innovations for individuals with poor mental health
Opens: 09/10/2024
Closes: 13/11/2024
Up to £200k each for digital innovations to help people remain in work, return to work, or gain employment.
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Mindset extended reality (XR): Digital therapeutics for mental health
Opens: 04/11/2024
Closes: 15/01/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3.7 million for R&D projects that provide digital therapeutics for mental health solutions.
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BBSRC ICURe Explore January 2025 – in partnership with NC3Rs
Opens: 20/09/2024
Closes: 20/11/2024
12 weeks full-time programme with up to £35k to help bioscience research teams get out of the lab and explore the commercial potential of their research/technology.
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BBSRC ICURe engage November 2024: London & S/SE England
Opens: 23/09/2024
Closes: 21/10/2024
ICURe engage is a 4-week, part-time entrepreneurship programme tailored for bioscience research students and technicians.
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ICURe Discover for Women Entrepreneurs - November 2024
Opens: 27/09/2024
Closes: 24/10/2024
An 8-week, part-time online potential market exploration programme for women researchers and technicians, with up to £2,500 support for market discovery activities