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UK Seafood Fund: Skills and Training Scheme
Opens 27/12/2021
Closes: 01/04/2022
The Skills and Training Scheme will provide a one-off fund of up to £10 million to improve training in the seafood industry, including the catching, processing and aquaculture sectors. The funding is available to organisations who can provide training to people working in the UK seafood industry.
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UK-Singapore Collaborative R&D
Opens 24/01/2022
Closes: 20/04/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for up to £350k per project for the purpose of developing proposals with Singapore. Applications in advanced manufacturing and materials, agrifood tech, mobility and transport, cybersecurity and health and life sciences particularly welcome.
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APC 20: Developing automotive technologies and growing capability towards net zero
Opens 10/01/2022
Closes: 02/03/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of £25 million for late stage research and development projects that help accelerate the UK towards a net zero automotive future.
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SBRI Heat Pump Ready Programme: Stream 2, developing tools and technology
Opens 20/12/2021
Closes: 15/02/2022
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million of grant funding for projects to overcome barriers to heat pump deployment. This will support the development of tools, technology and processes to overcome specific barriers.
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SBRI - Climate and Environmental Risk Analytics for Resilient Finance: Phase 1
Opens 17/01/2022
Closes: 16/02/2022
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million inclusive of VAT, to develop solutions that integrate climate and environmental factors in the financial services industry.
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iX challenge: Alternative Adhesives for Automated Insert Fixtures on Spacecraft (ARCHIVED)
Opens 13/12/2021
Closes: 11/02/2022
This iX challenge competition, delivered by Innovate UK KTN, is supporting Airbus to identify innovative adhesives that can be used to adhere insert fixings to satellites.
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iX challenge: Recycled Aluminium Conductor Cable
Opens 13/12/2021
Closes: 04/03/2022
An InnovateUK KTN Innovation Exchange client is seeking innovative approaches to rapidly recycling and reusing aluminium alloy cables as a high voltage conductor.
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The Explore Programme - 6 week accelerator for early stage entry into the space sector
Opens 01/12/2021
Closes: 14/01/2022
Do you have a startup in the space sector? Are you using space technology for your business like GPS, earth observation or satellite data? Do you have a business in another sector and want to explore the opportunities Space can bring? Entrepreneurial Spark’s programme is aimed at early stage entry into the space sector.
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Commercialising quantum technologies: feasibility studies round 3
Opens 17/01/2022
Closes: 09/03/2022
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £6 million in innovation projects. This funding is from the ISCF Commercialising quantum technologies challenge.
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SPARK! contest - challenge to disrupt the energy sector
Opens 01/09/2021
Closes: 31/12/2021
Spark! are looking for innovations to disrupt the Franco-British energy sector and help achieve net zero, whether it be untapped energy sources or efficiencies in building management and construction. Open to teams of 2-3 people, between 18 and 30 years old, who have studied in either the UK or France.
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Huckletree Alpha Accelerator and Earthrise Sustainability Summit 2022: Urban Futures
Opens 03/01/2022
Closes: 27/02/2022
Huckletree are designing their Alpha Accelerator and Earthrise Sustainability Summit around Urban Futures for 2022. The Alpha Accelerator is a 12-week programme that supercharges the pre-seed strategies of startups with at least one underrepresented founder. Deadline extended to 27th February.
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Unloc Young Entrepreneurs Challenge
Opens 01/10/2021
Closes: 21/01/2022
The Young Entrepreneurs Challenge, brought to you by Verizon Business and Unloc, is an annual event that seeks to find cutting edge young talent across Europe.
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Re-use, Re-fill, Re-imagine: Innovative solutions for informal trade within South Africa
Opens 08/12/2021
Closes: 28/01/2022
The Innovation Exchange challenge competition, delivered by KTN Global Alliance Africa, is supporting Unilever to identify innovative approaches towards new circular business models for reuse and refill models for informal trade in South Africa.
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Methods for Detection and Screening of False Codling Moth within produce in Sub Saharan Africa
Opens 08/12/2021
Closes: 28/01/2022
Flamingo Horticulture International seeks innovative solutions to detect and screen False Codling Moth in the production of chilli plants or in the chillies themselves.
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Re-use, Re-fill, Re-imagine – Innovative solutions for online consumer products within South Africa
Opens 08/12/2021
Closes: 28/01/2022
Unilever is looking for innovative solutions to this circular economy challenge: how can re-fill and re-use be applied for online consumer products?
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Approaches to managing False Codling Moth in horticultural crops
Opens 08/12/2021
Closes: 28/01/2022
Seeking novel solutions specific to the control or elimination of False Codling Moth in chilli plants
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Innovate with Cathode Ray Tubes - Reuse and Recycle Challenge
Opens 08/12/2021
Closes: 11/02/2022
WEEE Centre seeking innovations for the recycling and re-use of cathode ray tubes.
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Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 17
Opens 06/12/2021
Closes: 12/01/2022
Registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1billion for capital centric investment projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.
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Cabinet Office Border Innovation Hub: Ecosystem of Trust Pilot
Opens 06/12/2021
Closes: 31/01/2022
Through this pilot, border agencies will work with industry to create a broad, end-to-end pilot, to definitively test whether new capabilities across supply chain security and technology, providing greater assurance of goods crossing the border, can unlock world-leading Trusted Trader schemes and develop further simplified customs declaration processes that are able to facilitate greater trade without jeopardising security.
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Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP): 2021 to 2022, round 5
Opens 06/12/2021
Closes: 02/02/2022
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £8 million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not-for-profits.
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AccelerateHER Awards 2022 in partnership with Barclays Eagle Labs
Opens 01/12/2021
Closes: 10/12/2021
The category winners in each of five UK regions will receive a mentoring package from Investing Women Angels and get the opportunity to take part in international market building missions.
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