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Safety Tech Challenge Fund
Opens 08/09/2021
Closes: 06/10/2021
The Safety Tech Challenge Fund will drive the development of innovative technologies that help keep children safe in end-to-end encrypted environments, without compromising user privacy. The UK Government is awarding five organisations up to £85,000 each to prototype and evaluate innovative ways in which sexually explicit images or videos of children can be detected and addressed within end-to-end encrypted environments.
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Digital Connectivity Infrastructure Accelerator
Opens 09/09/2021
Closes: 18/11/2021
DCIA will allocate up to £4 million of funding to pilots which support the implementation of digital asset management solutions for mapping and brokerage of publicly owned assets for use in the rollout of wireless communication networks.
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EUREKA GlobalStars Taiwan digital industrial collaborations
Opens 13/09/2021
Closes: 15/12/2021
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £865,000 to develop collaborative innovation projects in partnership with organisations from participating EUREKA members and GlobalStars countries.
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Eureka Eurostars 3: call 1
Opens 02/09/2021
Closes: 04/11/2021
UK registered SME’s can apply for a share of up to £2.5million to develop collaborative research in partnership with organisations from participating Eureka Eurostars member countries.
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Healthy Ageing Challenge - Designed for Ageing
Opens 20/09/2021
Closes: 17/11/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £14.4million for service-led innovations to support healthy ageing.
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Royal Society Long Industry Fellowships October 2021
Opens 06/09/2021
Closes: 05/10/2021
This long-standing scheme enables the mobility of talented scientists and engineers from industry and academia in order to move between the sectors. These secondments support the researcher’s development, foster exchange of knowledge, stimulate longer-term collaborations, and establish personal, scientific and corporate links between sectors. Up to 2 years FTE.
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Royal Society Short Industry Fellowships Nov 2021
Opens 06/09/2021
Closes: 01/11/2021
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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Growing Kent and Medway: Collaborative Research and Development
Opens 06/09/2021
Closes: 20/10/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for business-focused innovation in the horticultural food supply chain.
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Fisheries and Seafood Scheme August 2021
Opens 25/08/2021
Closes: 06/10/2021
The £6.1 million Fisheries and Seafood Scheme will provide financial support (match funding) for projects in England that secure sustainable growth across the catching, processing and aquaculture sectors, and that protect and enhance the marine environment.
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Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 14
Opens 23/08/2021
Closes: 15/09/2021
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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Defence Sourcing Portal: Connectivity of Disparate Remote Autonomous Systems
Opens 23/08/2021
Closes: 06/09/2021
Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Future Capability Group (FCG) are conducting early market engagement that will improve their understanding of the industrial base capabilities to integrate remote autonomous systems.
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SBRI: Digital transformation of Hanoi Metro Line 5, Vietnam
Opens 13/09/2021
Closes: 13/10/2021
Organisations can apply for a share of £300,000, inclusive of VAT, to deliver feasibility studies to support digital innovation for the Hanoi Metro System in Vietnam.
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SBRI: Global Rail Export Innovation for Australia, Canada and India
Opens 13/09/2021
Closes: 13/10/2021
Organisations can apply for a share of £450,000, inclusive of VAT, to support innovation on overseas rail opportunities in Australia, Canada and India.
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Future flight challenge phase 3: two strands - demonstration and cross-cutting technologies
Opens 06/09/2021
Closes: 03/11/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £65 million to develop and demonstrate integrated aviation systems and new vehicle technologies. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
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SBRI: Digital Regulatory Navigation Platform (Health Products)
Opens 24/08/2021
Closes: 20/09/2021
Organisations can apply for a share of £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop a digital regulatory navigation platform for health product innovators.
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Helping the military shrink its cyber attack surface
Opens 16/08/2021
Closes: 05/01/2022
The defence sector is full of legacy systems vulnerable to cyber attack. Do you have the technology to reduce defence exposure to cyber effects?
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Autonomous Resilient Cyber Defence – Intelligent Agents
Opens 16/08/2021
Closes: 05/01/2022
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching a new Innovation Focus Area (IFA) called Autonomous Resilient Cyber Defence , which aims to develop self-defending cyber security systems for military operational platforms and technologies.
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Audience of the Future – Design Foundations 2
Opens 23/08/2021
Closes: 29/09/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £800,000 for early-stage, human-centred design projects in creative or immersive experiences. £25k-£50k per project.
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Climate Challenge Cup
Opens 23/08/2021
Closes: 24/09/2021
The Climate Challenge Cup is a new international competition to elevate and help scale transformative civic research partnerships between research bodies, civic organisations and local communities to combat climate change. It will culminate in an innovation showcase and award ceremony during COP26, the United Nations 2021 Climate Change Conference in November.
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ISCF Transforming Foundation Industry: Small scale R&D, two strands
Opens 16/08/2021
Closes: 29/09/2021
The Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) Challenge fund will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, to invest up to £1.5 million in innovation projects. Projects must address the resource productivity or energy performance opportunities of the sector and its supply chains.
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Global cooperation feasibility studies for SMEs
Opens 09/08/2021
Closes: 03/09/2021
The aim of this competition is to increase the international engagement of innovative UK registered SMEs. It will support them in looking to establish or strengthen international research and innovation partnerships and networks and aid them to grow and scale up.
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