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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Launchpad - Advanced Manufacturing - CR&D - Liverpool City Region
Opens 23/09/2022
Closes: 04/11/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £6 million for projects that grow activities in the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region.
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Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2022 to 2023 Round 4
Opens 20/09/2022
Closes: 16/11/2022
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £9 million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not for profits.
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Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition – Round 6
Opens 20/09/2022
Closes: 09/11/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.
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Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) Phase 2: closing February 2023
Opens 10/10/2022
Closes: 17/02/2023
The £289m Industrial Energy Transformation Fund has been supporting the permanent deployment of industrial energy efficiency and decarbonization technologies on industrial sites in England, Wales and Northern Ireland since July 2020. Your final opportunity to apply for funding from this successful programme is now open. Note extended deadline – now closing 17th February 2023.
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Faraday Institution energy storage projects
Opens 05/09/2022
Closes: 06/10/2022
This funding call seeks to identify researchers, based at UK Universities and qualifying Research Organisations, to progress at least one of the following six major research projects funded by the Faraday Institution: Degradation, ReLib, SafeBatt, SolBat, LiSTAR, Multi-Scale Modelling (MSM). In doing so it aims to enhance the skills and innovation brought to the projects through participation, from an increased pool of UK talent whilst building upon its investment to date.
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iX Challenge: Long Term Residential Energy Storage
Opens 30/08/2022
Closes: 21/10/2022
The KTN Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside MVM Group, looking to engage innovators and innovative companies that can provide efficient solutions for seasonal-scale residential energy storage. MVM require a solution which is capable of storing 5000-10000 kWh with minimal self-discharge over multiple months and converting this stored reserve back to residential power as needed.
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iX Challenge: CO2 Electrolysis
Opens 30/08/2022
Closes: 21/10/2022
The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside MVM Group, looking to engage innovators and innovative companies that can provide a highly efficient one-step process to transform high-purity CO2 emissions into value-added products or valorizable industrial starting materials.
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iX Challenge: Electrochemical Ammonia Production
Opens 30/08/2022
Closes: 21/10/2022
The KTN Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside MVM Group, looking to engage innovators and innovative companies that can provide an electro-chemical method for ammonia production. MVM seek this innovation to serve as an efficient, carbon-free energy and/or hydrogen storage media, which can play an important part in meeting the future energy demands of Hungary and beyond.
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Royal Society Short Industry Fellowships September 2022
Opens 01/09/2022
Closes: 03/11/2022
This scheme, part of the Royal Society’s Industry programme, enables scientists employed in industry or academia and/or their postdoctoral researcher to have shorter more dynamic engagements between academia and industry, working on a mutually beneficial and collaborative project.
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PEMD Scale-up: Strand 2, manufacturing process development
Opens 21/09/2022
Closes: 07/12/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million to scale up manufacturing in the power electronics, machines and drives supply chain. This strand will fund manufacturing process industrialisation to enhance volume and niche productivity.
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PEMD Scale-up: Strand 1, adopting manufacturing best practice
Opens 21/09/2022
Closes: 07/12/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million to scale up manufacturing in the power electronics, machines and drives supply chain. This strand will fund feasibility studies for innovative manufacturing solutions from other sectors.
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Innovation in Professional and Financial Services
Opens 05/09/2022
Closes: 09/11/2022
UK registered businesses, or organisations in collaborations, can apply for a share of up to £7 million for projects that develop new products and services within Professional and Financial Services, across 2 different strands.
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ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest September 2022
Opens 05/09/2022
Closes: 21/09/2022
The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.
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SSPP Future Plastic Packaging Solutions Round 2
Opens 12/09/2022
Closes: 09/11/2022
UK registered businesses and organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for early-stage and mid-stage projects in smart and sustainable plastic packaging.
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SBRI: Healthy Ageing - scaling social ventures
Opens 05/09/2022
Closes: 19/10/2022
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to scale products and services to support healthy ageing.
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Extended reality (XR) for digital mental health
Opens 02/09/2022
Closes: 12/10/2022
UK registered businesses and collaborative partners can apply for a share of up to £4 million across two strands of the competition. This is for R&D projects that provide digital mental health therapeutic solutions.
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Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 25
Opens 22/08/2022
Closes: 14/09/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital centric investment projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.
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Growing Kent and Medway: Collaborative Research and Development August 2022
Opens 05/09/2022
Closes: 19/10/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for business focused innovation in the horticultural food and drink supply chain. This funding is from Growing Kent & Medway, a UKRI funded project.
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Improving Observation Capabilities of Biodiversity in UK Waters
Opens 31/08/2022
Closes: 05/10/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £750,000 for innovation projects that can improve the observation and assessment capabilities of biodiversity in the UK’s waters. This funding is from DEFRA.
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iX Challenges: Re-processing, Re-using or Modifying large quantities of PPE and Hand sanitiser
Opens 22/08/2022
Closes: 30/09/2022
This challenge is to support the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in finding innovators that can reprocess, re-use or modify large quantities of PPE gowns, goggles, visors and hand sanitiser into new products that have further application or use. Innovators should have capacity to handle significant volumes of products.
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Farming Innovation Programme small R&D partnership projects round 2
Opens 31/08/2022
Closes: 02/11/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £11million for Small R&D Partnership Projects from the Industry-led R&D Partnerships Fund, a part of the Farming Innovation Programme.
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