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iX Challenge: Novel processing methods to extract and refine nickel, copper and cobalt products from sulphide mineral concentrates
Opens: 16/04/2026
Closes: 29/05/2026
Aberdeen Minerals would like to find innovators who already have, or have the potential to develop, a novel mineral processing technology to extract and refine nickel, copper and cobalt products from sulphide mineral concentrates derived from North East Scotland. The challenge involves developing and demonstrating a processing solution for the direct production of critical raw materials for UK industry, in a way that is more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable than shipping products to overseas smelters.
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iX Challenge: Critical material recovery from e-waste recycling process by-products
Opens: 16/04/2026
Closes: 29/05/2026
The challenge holder invites technology providers to propose solutions for recovering minor metals or metal salts from either a chloride media or an alkaline mixed metal precipitate produced from e-waste recycling (elements could include aluminium, antimony, bismuth, cobalt, iron, lead, magnesium, nickel, tin, and zinc).
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Growth Cohorts: Next generation low carbon concrete
Opens: 20/04/2026
Closes: 08/07/2026
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £11.5 million to create a cohort of ambitious businesses, across a two-stage competition, to accelerate concrete decarbonisation.
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Full ADOPT Grant Round 7
Opens: 09/04/2026
Closes: 03/06/2026
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £5 million for on-farm trial and demonstration projects, to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector.
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Contracts for Innovation: Enabling Commercial Quantum Networking
Opens: 14/04/2026
Closes: 20/05/2026
Organisations can apply for a share of £20m to develop a deployable prototype of an enabling component or sub-system for commercial quantum networking.
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ARIA: Universal Fabricators - full proposals
Opens: 01/04/2026
Closes: 05/05/2026
ARIA's £50m Manufacturing Abundance programme seeks to harness proteins to produce a functionally universal range of materials at scale.
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Future offshore wind technologies: industrial research
Opens: 07/04/2026
Closes: 03/06/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10m to support Offshore Wind technologies across two competition strands.
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Future offshore wind technologies: feasibility studies
Opens: 07/04/2026
Closes: 03/06/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10m to support Offshore Wind technologies across two competition strands.
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Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies
Opens: 01/04/2026
Closes: 13/05/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25m to develop secure, sustainable or sovereign connectivity technologies that support the UK’s Advanced Connectivity Technologies programme.
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Contracts for Innovation: Advanced Connectivity Technologies (ACT) – Call 1
Opens: 01/04/2026
Closes: 03/06/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of £15m to develop near term, testable solutions that advance the UK’s Secure & Resilient and Sustainable Network Grand Challenges through deployable prototypes on UK testbeds.
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PRIMARY Open Call for Agricultural Bioeconomy Innovation
Opens: 09/03/2026
Closes: 08/06/2026
A €900,000 call for Agricultural Bioeconomy Innovation, inviting farmers, cooperatives, and regional partners to replicate sustainable processing solutions across Europe.
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Global Incubator Programme: Agri-Tech USA THRIVE, cohort 1
Opens: 01/04/2026
Closes: 28/04/2026
Innovate UK seeks innovative Agri-Tech companies to participate in an acceleration programme to support growth by exploring the potential of the USA market.
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Global Incubator Programme - Agri-Tech, New Zealand 2026: cohort 1
Opens: 01/04/2026
Closes: 14/04/2026
Innovate UK seeks innovative Agri-Tech companies to participate in an acceleration programme to support growth by exploring the potential of the New Zealand market.
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UK Space Agency: General Support Technology Programme - Open Innovation
Opens: 01/03/2026
Closes: 11/05/2026
The UK Space Agency offers funding for developing and maturing space technologies that address emerging needs or market opportunities, enabling industry‑driven innovation.
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iX Challenge: Whole Estate Renewable Energy Master Planning and Decision Support
Opens: 31/03/2026
Closes: 08/05/2026
A Welsh business seeks a robust, practical and impartial master plan for transitioning to a resilient, low carbon, long term energy system.
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Contracts for Innovation: ProQure - Scaling UK Quantum Computing
Opens: 27/03/2026
Closes: 29/05/2026
Organisations can apply for up to £14m in phase 1 to develop, build and validate integrated quantum computing hardware and software to demonstrate commercial scale deployment and applications of your quantum computing solution.
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ARIA: Scaling Trust Arena
Opens: 27/03/2026
Closes: 14/04/2026
Up to £10m to design and construct a digital and cyber-physical arena for open competitions designed to test AI systems’ capabilities
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iX Challenge: Designing a Smart Local Energy System for a Circular Economy Park
Opens: 26/03/2026
Closes: 06/05/2026
CWM Environmental is seeking innovators to deliver a feasibility study into a Smart Local Energy System (SLES) / microgrid approach for Nantycaws (CWM Gwyrdd).
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Medicines Manufacturing: Labs of the Future
Opens: 13/04/2026
Closes: 28/05/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7.5 million to support the development and use of digital, automated, and robotic technologies. This aims to improve the speed and efficiency of pharmaceutical process development and manufacturing.
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Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets
Opens: 21/04/2026
Closes: 29/05/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million. This programme focuses on the creation, curation, annotation and exploitation of FAIR-data and benchmarks which will fuel AI industry growth. This funding is from Innovate UK.
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UK Defence Innovation: Rapid transfusion diagnostics - blood testing in the field
Opens: 16/03/2026
Closes: 02/06/2026
UKDI seeks innovations to support the donation and transfusion of blood in deployed settings.