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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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Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator 2026
Opens: 22/04/2026
Closes: 01/06/2026
A DfT-funded programme fast-tracking the adoption of commercial ready solutions to address challenges in the UK’s freight and logistics sector.
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Heat Pump Ready Programme Round 2: innovation funding competition
Opens: 24/04/2026
Closes: 25/06/2026
Up to £2m per project to develop and bring forward innovative technologies focusing on four identified barriers to heat pump uptake.
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Contracts for Innovation: Cyber scale in critical sectors
Opens: 01/05/2026
Closes: 10/06/2026
Organisations can apply for up to £300k each to develop, demonstrate and commercialise their cyber security solution in real end user environments within critical sector organisations.
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iX Challenge: Steam Delivery Optimisation for Food Factory Use
Opens: 28/04/2026
Closes: 09/06/2026
Prima Foods seeks to install steam valves and steam metering systems to connect and control two non-identical steam ovens, allowing precise management of steam distribution, reducing energy waste, improving product consistency and enhancing yields and throughput.
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Innovate UK Venture Builder Pilot Expression of Interest
Opens: 22/04/2026
Closes: 22/05/2026
Up to £150,000 per SME to support new deep-tech spin-outs in Frontier AI, Engineering Biology, or Advanced Materials & Manufacturing, and to help them in raising their first significant investment. This is the Expression of Interest stage of the competition.
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Advanced manufacturing supply chain innovation: CRD
Opens: 27/04/2026
Closes: 10/06/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6.5 million for collaborative industrial research to make supply chains more productive, resource efficient and resilient.
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 – 2027 Round 2
Opens: 20/04/2026
Closes: 24/06/2026
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £10 million to fund innovation projects with businesses.
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UKDI Biosecurity Frontiers: Defending against biological threats
Opens: 17/04/2026
Closes: 10/06/2026
This competition seeks innovations to strengthen the UK's ability to detect, prevent and respond to biological risks.
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Biofilms ICURe Discover
Opens: 14/04/2026
Closes: 08/05/2026
Biofilms ICURe Discover is an upcoming ICURe programme themed around biofilms across all applications including healthcare, engineering, marine, food and agriculture, the built environment, water and wastewater, energy, personal care and home care.
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ARIA: Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies - TA1 full proposals
Opens: 13/04/2026
Closes: 11/05/2026
Up to £4m per project for engineering non-surgical neural interfaces in three focus areas.
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ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 8
Opens: 15/04/2026
Closes: 29/05/2026
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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Metal recovery from wastewater integrated hydrogen production systems
Opens: 16/04/2026
Closes: 29/05/2026
HydroStar Europe Ltd is seeking innovators to provide selective, ideally electrochemical or electrolysis based, recovery solutions for metals such as magnesium, lithium and copper from wastewater streams.
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ACTASAP Pathfinder 2026
Opens: 14/04/2026
Closes: 29/04/2026
ACTASAP Pathfinder is a bootcamp delivered over four days for academics in Advanced Connectivity Technologies, providing the necessary guidance and support for researchers to commercialise their research and innovations.
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Battery innovation feasibility studies round 2
Opens: 09/04/2026
Closes: 28/05/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million for innovation in battery technologies for electrification.
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Battery innovation concept development round 2
Opens: 09/04/2026
Closes: 28/05/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification.
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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.