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ICURe Discover Sprint April 2026
Opens: 03/02/2026
Closes: 17/03/2026
Innovate UK ICURe Discover Sprint is an intensive, part-time, online market exploration programme designed to support researchers and technicians in exploring the commercial potential of their ideas.
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iX Challenge - Preserve Celtic Sea FLOW biodiversity via prediction of marine conditions
Opens: 24/02/2026
Closes: 07/04/2026
For the Love of the Sea are seeking an innovative solution which can provide a multi layered monitoring system for their sea farm. By analysing data from wind, tide and currents; the system will help to identify conditions that lead to damage and support timely action to reduce losses. This capability is particularly valuable within the Celtic Sea FLOW ecosystem, where understanding local marine conditions underpins offshore renewable energy activity and supports regional biodiversity.
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iX Challenge - Circular solutions for textile waste reduction in Southwest Wales
Opens: 24/02/2026
Closes: 07/04/2026
Choose2Reuse are looking for innovative solutions to re-valorise their non reusable textile waste streams, ensuring that these materials remain in Wales and are transformed into new products, feedstocks or industrial inputs. Solving this challenge will help to provide a circular solution not only for their waste but also their customer base of 100 Charity shops in the Southwest Wales region.
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ARIA: Universal Fabricators - concept papers
Opens: 16/02/2026
Closes: 09/03/2026
ARIA's £50m Manufacturing Abundance programme seeks to harness proteins to produce a functionally universal range of materials at scale.
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ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 7
Opens: 26/02/2026
Closes: 15/04/2026
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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UK Defence Innovation Competition: Innovation Support to Operations Phase 3 (Cycle 7)
Opens: 23/02/2026
Closes: 12/05/2026
Seeking cost competitive, innovative solutions across seven new challenge areas covering Unmanned Aerial Systems, telemetry, and autonomous navigation/guidance.
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Countering Illegal Use of UAS Around Prisons and Sensitive Sites
Opens: 16/02/2026
Closes: 31/03/2026
Seeking low-collateral solutions to counter hostile Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS), used for contraband delivery, surveillance near prisons and sensitive sites
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Robotics Adoption Hubs
Opens: 24/02/2026
Closes: 15/04/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for up to £7.5m per project to create one-stop shops to help end-users adopt robotics and autonomous systems.
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Robotics Adoption Central Convening Body
Opens: 24/02/2026
Closes: 15/04/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for up to £2m for creating a central convening body to coordinate robotics adoption hubs.
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iX Challenge: CCTV / AI Waste Monitoring for High Accuracy Recycling
Opens: 24/02/2026
Closes: 07/04/2026
Sinclair Group (Wales) invites innovators, SMEs, and solution providers to propose digital and AI driven technologies for recycling accuracy, contamination reduction, and operational efficiency.
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iX Challenge: Digital Material Flow Mapping and Packaging Reduction
Opens: 24/02/2026
Closes: 07/04/2026
Sinclair Group (Wales) seek innovators who can map and analyse material flows, enabling packaging reduction, reusable alternatives, and enhanced circular economy performance.
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iX Challenge - Enabling regional carbon dioxide utilisation in Southwest Wales through geospatial intelligence
Opens: 24/02/2026
Closes: 07/04/2026
The challenge holder is seeking an innovative solution to develop a geospatial planning tool that will optimise how carbon dioxide is mapped, routed, and reused across Southwest Wales.
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Semiconductors and components for smart electronic platforms
Opens: 20/02/2026
Closes: 01/04/2026
UK registered businesses can apply with CR&D or R&D projects for a share of up to £18.5 million to mature and accelerate the availability of components that include semiconductors or novel technologies ready for integration into Smart Electronic Platforms.
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Southwest Wales Net Zero Industry Launchpad Round 2 - Call for challenge holders
Opens: 18/02/2026
Closes: 13/03/2026
The Net Zero Industry Launchpad is using the Innovate UK Business Connect Innovation Exchange (iX) platform to offer an exciting new pilot competition using the iX platform to support challenges that benefit or impact on Southwest Wales. The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects that will impact on Southwest Wales.
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iX Challenge - Dry ice alternatives that maintain LUSH spa's sensory and theatrical magic
Opens: 23/02/2026
Closes: 17/04/2026
LUSH Spa invites solutions which can address the challenge of maintaining the moments of magic created using dry ice within 3 spa treatments. The proposed solution should be either: a direct replacement of dry ice, e.g. making dry ice or a dry ice replacement easily and safely onsite, or a new innovative, wow factor spectacle to impress clients in the treatment room. This could be another form of mist or something completely new.
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Contracts for Innovation: industrial human relevant drug models
Opens: 02/03/2026
Closes: 15/04/2026
Organisations can apply for a share of £2 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop and commercialise non‑animal methods for assessing the pre‑clinical pharmacokinetics and cardiovascular safety of new medicines.
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PQA ICURe Engage - March 2026
Opens: 29/01/2026
Closes: 24/02/2026
This sector-specific Innovate UK ICURe Engage programme, delivered in collaboration with the Photonics & Quantum Accelerator (PQA) and Scottish Enterprise, is a 4-week, part-time programme tailored for research students and technicians from Scottish institutions.
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European Space Agency: Sustainable Wetlands
Opens: 16/03/2026
Closes: 01/05/2026
(Note: UK applicants are not eligible.) ESA seeks business proposals for space-based applications and services that support wetland sustainability while delivering economically viable business cases.
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ARIA: Scaling Trust - Tooling and Fundamental Research
Opens: 09/02/2026
Closes: 24/03/2026
ARIA are seeking to fund teams to develop open-source tools for future Arena participants and perform fundamental research that moves us from empirical to theory-driven guarantees in agentic coordination.
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Inclusive Mobility Challenge: Safe Urban Navigation for People with Access Needs
Opens: 16/02/2026
Closes: 27/03/2026
Seeking innovative tools that give people who experience barriers due to vision or mobility, reliable advanced information about temporary obstacles, such as pavement diversions, street works, and other hazards that may impact their pedestrian journeys.
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UK-Germany Collaborative Innovation for Quantum Technologies 2026
Opens: 12/02/2026
Closes: 15/04/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for £750k-£1m per project for innovative projects in quantum technologies.