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Here you can view details of archived opportunities and funding. These are no longer open for applications and should only be used for reference.
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PEMD Scale-up: Strand 1, adopting manufacturing best practice
Closing Soon
Opens: 21/09/2022
Closes: 07/12/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million to scale up manufacturing in the power electronics, machines and drives supply chain. This strand will fund feasibility studies for innovative manufacturing solutions from other sectors.
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Innovation in Professional and Financial Services
Opens: 05/09/2022
Closes: 09/11/2022
UK registered businesses, or organisations in collaborations, can apply for a share of up to £7 million for projects that develop new products and services within Professional and Financial Services, across 2 different strands.
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ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest September 2022
Opens: 05/09/2022
Closes: 21/09/2022
The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.
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SSPP Future Plastic Packaging Solutions Round 2
Opens: 12/09/2022
Closes: 09/11/2022
UK registered businesses and organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for early-stage and mid-stage projects in smart and sustainable plastic packaging.
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SBRI: Healthy Ageing - scaling social ventures
Opens: 05/09/2022
Closes: 19/10/2022
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to scale products and services to support healthy ageing.
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Extended reality (XR) for digital mental health
Opens: 02/09/2022
Closes: 12/10/2022
UK registered businesses and collaborative partners can apply for a share of up to £4 million across two strands of the competition. This is for R&D projects that provide digital mental health therapeutic solutions.
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Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 25
Opens: 22/08/2022
Closes: 14/09/2022
UK 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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Growing Kent and Medway: Collaborative Research and Development August 2022
Opens: 05/09/2022
Closes: 19/10/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for business focused innovation in the horticultural food and drink supply chain. This funding is from Growing Kent & Medway, a UKRI funded project.
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Improving Observation Capabilities of Biodiversity in UK Waters
Opens: 31/08/2022
Closes: 05/10/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £750,000 for innovation projects that can improve the observation and assessment capabilities of biodiversity in the UK’s waters. This funding is from DEFRA.
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iX Challenges: Re-processing, Re-using or Modifying large quantities of PPE and Hand sanitiser
Opens: 22/08/2022
Closes: 30/09/2022
This challenge is to support the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in finding innovators that can reprocess, re-use or modify large quantities of PPE gowns, goggles, visors and hand sanitiser into new products that have further application or use. Innovators should have capacity to handle significant volumes of products.
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Farming Innovation Programme small R&D partnership projects round 2
Opens: 31/08/2022
Closes: 02/11/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £11million for Small R&D Partnership Projects from the Industry-led R&D Partnerships Fund, a part of the Farming Innovation Programme.
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Farming Innovation Programme - feasibility round 2
Opens: 31/08/2022
Closes: 12/10/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of £5.5 million for feasibility projects, from the Industry-led R&D Partnerships Fund, a part of the Farming Innovation Programme.
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iX Challenge: Mental Health Management Competence for construction / infrastructure managers and teams
Opens: 12/08/2022
Closes: 23/09/2022
The Innovation Exchange is supporting the Infrastructure Industry Innovation Partnership (i3P) to connect with innovators that can provide engaging and practical ways of offering guidance to construction/infrastructure managers and teams (including office-based and on-site management) on preventative measures which reduce the effects of work-related stress. EDF is leading this initiative along with other i3P client and supply chain members.
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Zero emission road freight demonstrations 2022
Opens: 15/08/2022
Closes: 12/10/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £140 million to demonstrate battery and/or hydrogen fuel cell trucks.
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The Defence Technology Exploitation Programme
Opens: 08/08/2022
Closes: 31/12/2023
The Defence Technology Exploitation Programme (DTEP) aims to inspire companies to win new business, develop industrial capabilities, and provide new cutting-edge answers to defence problems at home and abroad, ensuring the UK expands its competitive, pioneering and world-class defence and security industries.
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iX Challenge: Novel Sensor Payloads for Asset Inspection Drones
Opens: 05/08/2022
Closes: 14/10/2022
The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Futureworx to find novel sensors and/or data processing techniques that can be deployed in scenarios offering relatively low Size-Weight-Power-Cooling (SWAPC) budgets. These will initially be aimed at demanding industrial environments, such as the ongoing survey and maintenance of offshore infrastructure.
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Royal Society Industry Fellowships August 2022
Opens: 01/08/2022
Closes: 06/10/2022
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, fosters exchange of knowledge, stimulates longer-term collaborations, and establishes personal, scientific and corporate links between sectors.
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2022 CRACK IT Challenges - replacing, reducing and improving animal testing
Opens: 08/09/2022
Closes: 03/10/2022
Funding of £1.2M is available through the 2022 CRACK IT Challenges competition to solve two Challenges: “Animal-free tumourigenicity assessment of CAR-T and other genetically modified T cells” and “Development of an in silico model to predict thyroid receptor mediated human endocrine disruption”.
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iX Challenge: Innovative approaches to data-driven asset management solutions
Opens: 01/08/2022
Closes: 09/09/2022
EQUANS is searching for innovators who are developing data-driven asset management solutions that can help digitise and decarbonise energy-consuming assets within buildings and industry, accelerating the zero carbon transition. Through the Clean Growth Innovation Fund, EQUANS is looking to make strategic investments in cleantech start-ups and SMEs.
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iX Challenge: Lightweight Energy Storage at Cold Temperatures
Opens: 01/08/2022
Closes: 23/09/2022
The focus of this Challenge, working with the NSTIx Operational Technology Co-Creation Centre and the British Antarctic Survey, is to develop a person-portable energy storage system (along with the associated charging/safety electronics) that can be recharged at a temperature as low as –40°C.
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Global Incubator Programme: business acceleration for SMEs in Clean Growth or Agritech
Opens: 01/08/2022
Closes: 22/09/2022
An acceleration programme from Innovate UK Edge. New York Clean Growth programme deadline extended to 22nd Sept.