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Innovation Exchange Challenge: Measurement of coated glass temperature within the furnace/manufacturing process
Opens 20/08/2025
Closes: 17/09/2025
Pilkington are looking for technology for accurate & reliable measurement of coated glass temperature.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Binders or resins for recyclable biocomposite panels
Opens 20/08/2025
Closes: 17/09/2025
The challenge is to identify and test a binder system (or alternative bio-resin or natural resin solution) that enables the product to be recycled or reprocessed.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Heat recovery and process efficiency optimisation in advanced plasma coating manufacturing
Opens 20/08/2025
Closes: 17/09/2025
Zircotec is seeking a practical, scalable solution to optimise energy efficiency by better use and management of heat in its operations.
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Biotechnology Business Incubation Centre 2025
Opens 11/08/2025
Closes: 07/09/2025
Supporting early-stage biotechnology companies to turn their innovative technology concepts into market reality
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Development of advanced electromagnetic sensors
Opens 18/08/2025
Closes: 18/09/2025
HMGCC seek lab-based sensor technologies, including quantum, operating in electromagnetic frequencies of at least 1MHz to 4GHz. Up to £250,000 per project.
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2025 STFC Cross Cluster Proof of Concept: SparQ Quantum Computing Call
Opens 30/07/2025
Closes: 30/09/2025
A call for proof of concept projects in quantum computing, with up to £60k grants for successful proposals.
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UK Horizons: Frontier Research Contractors
Opens 01/08/2025
Closes: 31/08/2025
Up to £100,000 each for organisations to tackle multidisciplinary, engineering-heavy, or user-focused tasks that fall outside the scope of existing R&D organisations.
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Glasgow ICURe Discover
Opens 05/08/2025
Closes: 04/09/2025
Innovate UK ICURe is partnering with Scottish Enterprise and University of Glasgow to deliver an ICURe Discover programme in September 2025, specifically for the Glasgow region.
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ICURe Discover for Women Entrepreneurs - October 2025
Opens 06/08/2025
Closes: 08/09/2025
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.
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BBSRC EngBio ICURe Discover
Opens 30/07/2025
Closes: 23/09/2025
BBSRC EngBio ICURe Discover is a part-time online market exploration programme for bioscience researchers and research technical professionals, with up to £2,500 support for market discovery activities. It is a pre-requisite to attend ICURe Discover if you wish to apply for ICURe Explore or Exploit.
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Sovereign AI - Proof of concept
Opens 11/08/2025
Closes: 10/09/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.6 million for the development of proof of concept demonstrators of AI technologies with state of the art performance. This is to support the UK’s AI sovereignty objectives.
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Global Business Innovation Programme - Additive Manufacturing, Germany
Opens 06/08/2025
Closes: 10/09/2025
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious innovative companies to participate in a 9-12 month programme to help them grow in the German market, including attending Formnext in Frankfurt.
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Global Business Innovation Programme - Semiconductors: Switzerland 2025
Opens 04/08/2025
Closes: 07/10/2025
Innovate UK seeks ambitious innovative SMEs for a market visit and further opportunities in Switzerland.
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Global Business Innovation Programme - Robotics & Automation in Manufacturing, Japan
Opens 01/08/2025
Closes: 26/09/2025
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious innovative companies to participate in a 9-12 month programme to help them grow in the Japanese market, including attending Factory Innovation Week.
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Horizon Europe 2025: European Innovation Council
Opens 01/07/2025
Closes: 29/10/2025
Funding opportunities worth over €1.4 billion for strategic technologies and scaling up companies.
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ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 3
Opens 24/07/2025
Closes: 03/09/2025
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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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Synthetic environment tools to predict behaviour
Opens 04/08/2025
Closes: 04/09/2025
HMGCC seeks to evaluate tools that provide a synthetic environment to simulate population responses to scenarios such as widespread disinformation or terrorism.
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Bristol Temple Meads Station Innovation Zone – Year Four
Opens 16/07/2025
Closes: 24/09/2025
Supporting SMEs to develop and trial new ways of improving various aspects of the rail passenger experience, with Bristol Temple Meads as the testbed site.
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DIATOMIC Digital Accelerator for West Midlands-based innovators
Opens 21/07/2025
Closes: 31/08/2025
West Midlands-based innovators with a digital twin solution for cities and places are invited to address six challenge areas.
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TMF AI ICURe Engage - October 2025
Opens 21/07/2025
Closes: 20/09/2025
TMF AI ICURe Engage is a 4-week, part-time online programme which helps you identify who could benefit from your research and the benefits of entrepreneurship.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: DNA removal to cut cross-contamination risk
Opens 28/07/2025
Closes: 18/09/2025
Techniques to decontaminate forensics lab tools of biological traces are being sought in the latest challenge launched by HMGCC Co-Creation.
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