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Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 13
Opens 30/07/2021
Closes: 18/08/2021
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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Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022: Civil Security for Society - Cluster 3
Opens 09/08/2021
Closes: 23/11/2022
Horizon Europe has a wide variety of open calls for civil security for society, with closing dates in September, October or November 2021, or February or November 2022. Some of these also include security, cyber security, AI, and/or infrastructure.
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CRACK IT Challenge: SAFE: Innovative Safety Assessment of Fish adverse Effects
Opens 01/09/2021
Closes: 28/10/2021
This Challenge aims to develop a suite of innovative, scalable bioassays for key adverse outcome pathways to replace in vivo fish studies in chemical safety screening and regulatory environmental risk assessment.
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CRACK IT Mega-Challenge: towards a virtual second species in toxicology for drug development
Opens 01/09/2021
Closes: 28/10/2021
This Challenge aims to apply advanced computational and mathematical modelling approaches including Machine Learning, systems biology, systems toxicology and multi-scale modelling to develop a suite of virtual dog tissues and organs to model toxicological endpoints for new medicines. The model developed will provide a tool to start moving towards replacing the use of the dog as a second species in drug development.
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Analysis for Innovators (A4I) Round 6
Opens 29/07/2021
Closes: 18/08/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3m to resolve productivity issues by working with the best scientists and research facilities. Your proposal must describe a measurement or analysis problem that will help improve your business’s productivity or competitiveness, and an estimate of the value to your business of solving it.
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Scottish EDGE - Apply by 16th Aug for up to £100k business funding
Opens 06/07/2021
Closes: 16/08/2021
Scottish EDGE is a competition aimed at identifying and supporting Scotland’s up-and-coming, innovative, high-growth entrepreneurial talent. Companies of all sectors and stages can apply for funding of up to £100,000 on a split grant/ loan basis, and there is additional funding for pre-trading companies, sole-traders, partnerships, and under-30s. DEADLINE EXTENDED – now 16th August.
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Development of Electro-Magnetic Separation of Isotopes for Fusion Materials
Opens 19/07/2021
Closes: 05/08/2021
The STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) Programme is interested in alternative isotope separation technology, based on magnets/lasers, to provide isotopically tailored materials to reduce radioactive waste for the STEP concept and prototype reactor.
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Driving the Electric Revolution – building talent for the future
Opens 09/08/2021
Closes: 15/09/2021
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £250,000 for innovative skills, talent, and training projects. This funding is from the Driving the Electric Revolution challenge.
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Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society - Cluster 2
Opens 19/07/2021
Closes: 06/04/2022
Horizon Europe has a wide variety of open calls for culture, creativity and inclusive society, with closing dates in April 2022. Some of these also include AI, big data, digital tech, materials and health.
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UK Space Agency National Space Technology Programme (NSTP) and Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) funding call
Opens 19/07/2021
Closes: 25/08/2021
This NSTP/SST Call aims to develop the capability of the UK space sector by providing funding to advance research into Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) and debris removal underlying technologies or data. Industrial co-funding may be required for the selected projects.
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KTN-iX challenge: Upcycling Protective Plastics from Offshore Wind Farms
Opens 12/07/2021
Closes: 15/10/2021
The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Ørsted to help them reach out to potential innovators that might have solutions involving the upcycling of Transition Piece (TP) covers. The TP cover is a robust, watertight cover that protects the internal working space during the construction phase of an offshore wind turbine.
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SBRI: Healthy Ageing Social Ventures feasibility studies
Opens 19/07/2021
Closes: 15/09/2021
Organisations can apply for a share of £1 million inclusive of VAT to develop products and services to support healthy ageing, for projects up to £50k.
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SBRI: Healthy Ageing Social Ventures industrial research
Opens 19/07/2021
Closes: 15/09/2021
Organisations can apply for a share of £3 million inclusive of VAT to develop products and services to support healthy ageing, for projects of £50k-£150k.
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Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022: Health Cluster 1
Opens 12/07/2021
Closes: 06/04/2022
Horizon Europe has a wide variety of open calls for healthcare, with closing dates in April 2022 or September 2022. These include tackling diseases and reducing disease burden, staying healthy, health industry, health care, new technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society, and health-promoting environment.
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DASA market exploration: zero emissions training aircraft
Opens 12/07/2021
Closes: 17/08/2021
DASA’s market exploration into Zero Emissions Air System aims to investigate net-zero options for the next generation of light flying training aircraft. This is being run on behalf of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and seeks information on the development of relevant technologies and systems that are in development and maturing over the coming four years.
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Supercharging the MOD’s Power Quality Management
Opens 12/07/2021
Closes: 19/08/2021
Market exploration request: from grid stability to dynamic power networks, help the Ministry of Defence understand the impact of poor power quality on its estates and ships, and how the market can supercharge power efficiency.
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KTN-iX challenge: Solutions to Decarbonise Heat
Opens 06/07/2021
Closes: 30/09/2021
EQUANS, part of the ENGIE Group, is looking for SME’s with innovative solutions to decarbonise heat who are interested in corporate strategic investment.Through this iX challenge, EQUANS is looking for innovations that address typical heat decarbonisation challenge pain points as well as those that validate the provenance of low carbon fuels and allow heat networks to integrate with other energy systems.
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KTN-iX challenge: Solutions for Smarter & Greener Places
Opens 06/07/2021
Closes: 30/09/2021
Through this iX challenge, EQUANS, part of the ENGIE Group, is looking for SME’s with innovative solutions that create smarter and greener places who are interested in corporate strategic investment, with innovations across energy, mobility and infrastructure that enable smarter and greener places. Alongside technical innovations, EQUANS is interested in educational tools that help to promote behavioural change in communities, supporting democratisation in achieving decarbonisation.
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KTN-iX challenge: Digital Tools for the Built Environment
Opens 06/07/2021
Closes: 30/09/2021
Through this iX challenge, EQUANS, part of the ENGIE Group, is looking for SME’s with innovative tools for the built environment who are interested in corporate strategic investment, with innovations across energy, mobility and infrastructure that enable smarter and greener places. Alongside technical innovations, EQUANS is interested in educational tools that help to promote behavioural change in communities, supporting democratisation in achieving decarbonisation.
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KTN-iX challenge: Industrial Decarbonisation Solutions
Opens 06/07/2021
Closes: 30/09/2021
EQUANS, part of the ENGIE Group, is looking for SME’s with innovative industrial decarbonisation solutions who are interested in corporate strategic investment. Through this iX challenge, EQUANS is looking for disruptive tools that will support the end to end process from identifying, appraising and developing net zero opportunities through to deploying and monitoring these net zero initiatives in action.
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EuropeWave’s innovative wave energy tender now open
Opens 01/07/2021
Closes: 30/09/2021
EuropeWave is an innovative R&D programme for wave energy technology, which runs from 2021 to 2025. It will combine over €22.5m of national, regional and EU funding to drive a competitive Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) programme for wave energy. They are now inviting wave energy developers to apply for funding via its innovative pre-commercial procurement (PCP) programme.
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