Opportunities Archive
Here you can view details of archived opportunities and funding. These are no longer open for applications and should only be used for reference.
To view open funding and opportunities, please visit our Opportunities page.
Filter By
Sectors:
Iberdrola Start-up Challenge: Power Electronics
Opens 02/11/2020
Closes: 31/12/2020
Multi-national energy company Iberdrola have launched a new Startup Challenge, in search of competitive and innovative solutions, based on power electronics, to optimize medium and low voltage networks, improving their flexibility in different load scenarios.
More Information
Welsh Government SBRI: Better Lives Closer To Home
Opens 04/11/2020
Closes: 27/11/2020
Welsh Government and the SBRI Centre of Excellence will fund organisations to develop new products or services that will support our long term health and wellbeing with a focus on better lives closer to home. Your solution must help communities, businesses or the public sector.
More Information
ATI programme: R&D funding for smaller business, expression of interest, Autumn 2020
Opens 09/11/2020
Closes: 06/01/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8 million to carry out industry-led civil aerospace collaborative R&D projects
More Information
SMEs transforming food production: series A investor partnership
Opens 03/11/2020
Closes: 13/01/2021
UK registered SMEs that are 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.
More Information
ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest November 2020
Opens 02/11/2020
Closes: 18/11/2020
The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.
More Information
Locating faults in onshore aluminium cables
Opens 27/10/2020
Closes: 30/11/2020
SSE Renewables has launched a challenge on KTN’s Innovation Exchange to identify transferable solutions to its cable monitoring needs. The winning business(es) will be given a commercial opportunity to deliver their solution, and receive support from SSE Renewables, KTN, Catapults and the wider Innovate UK network.
More Information
Delivering peer-to-peer energy trading across non-domestic Local Energy Systems
Opens 09/10/2020
Closes: 13/11/2020
West Suffolk Council are looking for a partner/s able to trial peer-to-peer energy trading solutions alongside improvements to energy efficiency, renewable energy, grid capacity constraints and balancing.
More Information
Automotive Transformation Fund expression of interest: October 2020
Opens 19/10/2020
Closes: 11/11/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital investment and R&D projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.
More Information
UK and Canada biomanufacturing innovations in cell and gene therapies
Opens 26/10/2020
Closes: 23/12/2020
A collaborative opportunity with the National Research Council of Canada on process improvement in biomanufacturing of gene and cell therapies.
More Information
Call for expression of interest to join the Space2Waves Internationalisation Programme
Opens 01/10/2020
Closes: 16/12/2020
Are you a European SME developing innovative products or services using Earth Observation applied to marine and maritime domains? Join the SpaceWave Alliance internationalisation programme! 30 SMEs will be selected to go global in Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. Deadline extended to 16th Dec.
More Information
ISCF Future Plastic Packaging Solutions
Opens 26/10/2020
Closes: 20/01/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for early-stage projects in smart and sustainable plastic packaging.
More Information
Environmentally sustainable compounds for hair conditioners
Opens 16/10/2020
Closes: 11/12/2020
Croda has launched a challenge on KTN’s Innovation Exchange to identify solutions that could lead to the next generation in hair conditioners. Industry or academia problem solvers will be given a commercial opportunity and receive support from Croda, KTN and the wider Innovate UK network.
More Information
SBRI: Innovate at HS2 2020, phase 1
Opens 21/10/2020
Closes: 16/12/2020
This is an SBRI competition funded by HS2 Ltd. The aim of the competition is to deliver innovation that will drive project efficiencies and process optimisations during the design and construction phase of HS2. Feasibility study R&D contracts in phase 1 will be up to £30,000 each for 3-month projects.
More Information
Improving Access to Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure - Scotland
Opens 12/10/2020
Closes: 07/12/2020
Scottish Enterprise wishes to procure R&D services to explore and develop technological solutions to the challenge of improving access to electric vehicles charging infrastructure.
More Information
Robotics for a more resilient future: feasibility strand
Opens 12/10/2020
Closes: 20/11/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6 million in ISCF grant funding for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. This strand is for feasibility studies with a project size of £25,000 to £100,000.
More Information
Robotics for a more resilient future: R&D strand
Opens 12/10/2020
Closes: 20/11/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6 million in ISCF grant funding for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. This strand is for industrial research and experimental development with project size of £75,000 to £500,000.
More Information
Transforming Foundation industries: Investor partner selection
Opens 19/10/2020
Closes: 09/12/2020
Investors can apply to align their investments with up to £7 million grant funding from Innovate UK to make foundation industries globally competitive. We are seeking investor partners that want to invest in high growth potential SMEs concerned with one or more of the themes of reducing resource and energy consumption.
More Information
African agriculture knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2020 to 2021, round 4
Opens 06/10/2020
Closes: 28/10/2020
UK registered higher or further education institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £2 million to help fund an innovation project with another knowledge base and a business partner registered in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya or South Africa.
More Information
Creative Informatics at the University of Edinburgh: Resident Entrepreneurs Round 4
Opens 05/10/2020
Closes: 09/11/2020
If you are an individual or a small team that would like to develop a new product or service using data or data-driven technology, you can apply for funding of up to £12,000 to support your work. You must be based in and/or be undertaking work that has impact for the creative industries within Edinburgh and/or South East Scotland.
More Information
CivTech Sprint Challenge: Explainable AI
Opens 05/10/2020
Closes: 27/10/2020
How can technology be used to create scalable, repeatable approaches to the development of explainable and ethical Artificial Intelligence solutions for the Public Sector, starting with Police Scotland?
More Information
NATEP: helping SMEs innovate in aerospace Autumn 2020
Opens 05/10/2020
Closes: 18/11/2020
UK registered micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for industry led civil aerospace research projects.
More Information