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Irradiation of materials specimens in advanced nuclear reactors
Opens 04/10/2021
Closes: 12/11/2021
Game Changers are inviting proposals for innovative technologies that will enable the controlled irradiation of material specimens in nuclear reactors which are being simultaneously used for power generation.
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Circular economy for SMEs: innovating with the NICER programme
Opens 11/10/2021
Closes: 08/12/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million to research, test and develop step-change circular economy approaches.
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Technology and solutions to enhance the capability of Maritime Mission Systems
Opens 06/09/2021
Closes: 28/01/2022
The iX Challenge competition, delivered by KTN, is supporting BAE Systems Surface Ships to identify innovative solutions to enhance and enrich the Maritime Mission Systems marketplace. Top-performing solutions will be invited to participate in a Codeathon within a warship environment alongside those with the keys to the vessels concerned. New market entrants are encouraged.
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Biomedical Catalyst 2021 Round 2: Feasibility & Primer Awards
Opens 18/10/2021
Closes: 01/12/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12 million to develop innovative healthcare products, technologies and processes.
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Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2021
Opens 07/10/2021
Closes: 12/01/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25million for game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy.
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Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2021 to 2022, round 4
Opens 04/10/2021
Closes: 01/12/2021
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £8million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not-for-profits.
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Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 15
Opens 27/09/2021
Closes: 20/10/2021
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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SMEs Transforming food production: Series A Investor Partnership round 2
Opens 18/10/2021
Closes: 17/11/2021
UK registered SMEs transforming food production towards net zero can apply for a share of up to £5 million in grant support. This must align with a series A investment. The grant funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
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Transforming food production: Series A Investor Partnership Programme: round 2
Opens 18/10/2021
Closes: 10/11/2021
Investors can apply to partner with Innovate UK to align their investments with up to £5 million grant funding in UK registered SMEs to transform food production towards net zero by 2040. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
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Ministry of Defence request for information on smartphone based integrated application development architecture
Opens 20/09/2021
Closes: 27/09/2021
MOD Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) seeks to engage with Industry colleagues from all sectors to learn of ‘good practice’ or potential ‘pitfalls’ associated with Integrated Application Development. This RFI is to enable Defence to better understand the market and inform future experimentation and procurement activities. It is recognised that companies responding may have example capabilities for consideration that they wish to share with DE&S and this is welcomed.
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DASA Space to Innovate Campaign: Bravo Drop
Opens 13/09/2021
Closes: 09/11/2021
This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) campaign seeks proposals for novel and innovative future space technologies.
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ISCF digital security by design: software ecosystem development
Opens 04/10/2021
Closes: 08/12/2021
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £8 million for projects to work on the development of the DSbD software ecosystem.
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Industry of Future Programme: Industrial Sites
Opens 07/09/2021
Closes: 14/10/2021
The Industry of Future Programme (IFP) aims to increase the range of options available to industry to enable them to decarbonise at a faster rate.
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Building responsible neurotechnology research capability
Opens 06/09/2021
Closes: 25/11/2021
Apply for funding to develop a research network for neurotechnology. The full economic cost of your network can be up to £7.5 million. EPSRC and MRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost, up to £6 million. Expressions of interest must be submitted by 8th October 2021.
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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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