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Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 22
Opens 23/05/2022
Closes: 15/06/2022
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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Horizon Europe Guarantee - EIT KICs 2022
Opens 23/05/2022
Closes: 11/04/2023
This funding route is to deliver the UK Government’s Horizon Europe guarantee for UK partners involved in EIT-KIC activities in the 2022 calendar year.
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Transforming Foundation Industries – Success through innovation
Opens 20/05/2022
Closes: 30/05/2022
Are you a Foundation Industry Small or Medium-sized Enterprise (SME)? Apply now to receive support to enhance your capability to innovate by accessing the rich array of support, tools and grant funding available to UK companies. Apply by 30th May to secure your place.
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Horizon Europe Guarantee 2022 (first and second waves)
Opens 16/05/2022
Closes: 31/12/2023
The UK government has announced a new scheme that guarantees funding for successful applicants to the first and second wave of Horizon Europe grant awards regardless of the outcome of the UK’s efforts to associate to Horizon Europe.
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Farming Innovation Programme: research starter pilot, EoI Round 2
Opens 23/05/2022
Closes: 06/07/2022
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £1 million for feasibility projects.
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iX Challenge: overhead conductor line sag measurement
Opens 10/05/2022
Closes: 22/06/2022
The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks Transmission (SSEN-T), the owner of north Scotland’s high voltage electricity assets. SSEN-T is looking to engage innovators that can help them solve the challenge of accurately detecting sagging overhead conductor cables in remote locations.
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Design Exchange Partnerships: design the green transition
Opens 01/09/2022
Closes: 30/11/2022
Apply for funding to develop design-based solutions for specific net zero and climate crisis challenges facing UK coastal and island communities.
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Energy Catalyst Round 9
Opens 18/05/2022
Closes: 10/08/2022
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £20 million to create new or improved clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or the Indo-Pacific regions.
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Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition: Round Three
Opens 12/05/2022
Closes: 08/06/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative late-stage research and development projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.
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Photonics21 Innovation Award
Opens 01/05/2022
Closes: 27/05/2022
Photonics21 established this dedicated Innovation Challenge to push for more entrepreneurship in photonics. Any person active in the field of optics and photonics may apply.
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Design and pilot digital skills training programmes to embed digital skills in arts and humanities research
Opens 03/05/2022
Closes: 28/07/2022
Apply for funding to design and pilot digital skills training programmes for the use of digital tools and methods in arts and humanities research. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.
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SBRI: Fusion Industry Challenges - phase 1
Opens 09/05/2022
Closes: 22/06/2022
Organisations can apply for a share of £2 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop solutions to encourage innovation in the fusion industry, through the use of novel and innovative heating and cooling systems, materials, manufacturing and technologies.
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iX challenge: Extending the life of fleet vehicles via low or zero carbon technologies
Opens 25/04/2022
Closes: 17/06/2022
A consortium of Local Authorities, led by Luton Borough Council, is working with the Innovation Exchange programme to find technologies capable of extending the life of their current diesel powered fleet through implementing retrofittable low/zero carbon solutions.
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Innovate UK Smart Grants: April 2022
Opens 25/04/2022
Closes: 27/07/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for game-changing, commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy. It must be an innovative, disruptive, ambitious, world-class solution, with no similar technology commercially available anywhere in the world.
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Net Zero Hydrogen Fund – Strand 2: Capital expenditure (CAPEX)
Opens 25/04/2022
Closes: 13/07/2022
Strand 2 of the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund will provide capital expenditure (CAPEX) support for new low carbon hydrogen production facilities to begin deployment in the early 2020s. This is to ensure the UK has a diverse and secure decarbonised energy system fit for meeting our ambition of 10GW low carbon hydrogen production by 2030, and commitment to reach net zero by 2050.
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Net Zero Hydrogen Fund – Strand 1: Development Expenditure (DEVEX)
Opens 25/04/2022
Closes: 23/06/2022
Strand 1 of the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund will provide development expenditure (DEVEX) support for front end engineering design (FEED) and post-FEED studies for new low carbon hydrogen production facilities. This will support the commercial deployment of new low carbon hydrogen production projects during the 2020s.
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SBRI: FOAK 2022 Rail Freight
Opens 20/04/2022
Closes: 08/06/2022
This competition aims to support innovative products to enter the rail market. In this strand, DFT are looking for innovations focused on rail freight.
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SBRI: FOAK 2022 cost efficiency and performance priorities for a reliable railway
Opens 20/04/2022
Closes: 08/06/2022
This competition aims to support innovative products to enter the rail market. In this strand, you must address industry cost efficiency and network performance priorities to support a reliable railway for customers.
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SBRI: FOAK 2022 Low emissions and a greener railway
Opens 20/04/2022
Closes: 08/06/2022
This competition aims to support innovative products to enter the rail market. In this strand, you must address reduced carbon emissions and the impact of the railway on the environment, by either improving train batteries, introducing hydrogen trains, or reducing harmful emissions from diesel trains.
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Design Ecosystem Fellowships
Opens 17/02/2022
Closes: 30/04/2022
The Design Ecosystem Fellowships are Future Observatory-funded awards for up to six researchers to map transformative design ecosystems in the UK. The aim of the scheme is to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of production systems that support environmental sustainability, circular economies and waste reduction – a process that is key to achieving UK and global net zero targets.
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Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition – Round Two
Opens 14/04/2022
Closes: 11/05/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.
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