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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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Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Electric Power
Opens: 26/03/2026
Closes: 16/09/2026
Up to £150m total funding across 3 strands: this strand will fund the development and build of innovative 100% battery electric vessels, accompanying charging infrastructure, and shore power systems including related energy infrastructure and vessel upgrades.
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Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Alternative Fuels
Opens: 26/03/2026
Closes: 16/09/2026
Up to £150m total funding across 3 strands: this strand will fund the development and build of innovative alternative fuel vessels and accompanying port refuelling infrastructure.
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European Space Agency: Digitalisation of The Water Sector
Opens: 12/05/2026
Closes: 30/08/2026
ESA seeks space-enabled products and services to improve water resilience and sustainability; proofs of concept and pilot projects are welcomed.
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Medicines Manufacturing: Labs of the Future
Opens: 13/04/2026
Closes: 28/05/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7.5 million to support the development and use of digital, automated, and robotic technologies. This aims to improve the speed and efficiency of pharmaceutical process development and manufacturing.
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Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets
Opens: 21/04/2026
Closes: 29/05/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million. This programme focuses on the creation, curation, annotation and exploitation of FAIR-data and benchmarks which will fuel AI industry growth. This funding is from Innovate UK.
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UK Defence Innovation: Rapid transfusion diagnostics - blood testing in the field
Opens: 16/03/2026
Closes: 02/06/2026
UKDI seeks innovations to support the donation and transfusion of blood in deployed settings.
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AgriScale - Accelerating Agri-tech manufacturing: Industrial Research
Opens: 30/03/2026
Closes: 03/06/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for projects to close product technology gaps that are preventing movement towards commercial acceptance, scale up and manufacture.
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AgriScale - Accelerating Agri-tech manufacturing: Experimental Development
Opens: 30/03/2026
Closes: 03/06/2026
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8 million for projects to accelerate Agri-tech manufacturing.
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GOTT – Public Research Innovation & Market Accelerator
Opens: 01/04/2026
Closes: 06/07/2026
This 10-week part-time programme is designed to help UK government research organisations explore the commercial potential of their Knowledge Assets.
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iX Challenge - Modular Hydrogen Separation for Small Scale Pilot Waste Facilities
Opens: 24/03/2026
Closes: 27/04/2026
The Innovation Exchange (iX) programme is supporting an energy technology company developing waste‑to‑hydrogen and waste‑to‑energy systems to identify innovators who can design small‑scale hydrogen separation solutions for pilot‑scale waste pyrolysis facilities.
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iX Challenge - Autonomous Robotic Inspection Platform
Opens: 23/03/2026
Closes: 04/05/2026
RR-SMR is looking for highly autonomous robotic platforms capable of performing repeatable plant inspections within the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) environment.
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Agri-Food Tech Contracts for Innovation Cymru Phase 1 Challenge
Opens: 17/03/2026
Closes: 24/04/2026
Seeking effective and environmentally acceptable alternatives to current bracken control methods to support the delivery of sustainable land management in Wales.
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Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chains: Potential High Growth SMEs
Opens: 18/03/2026
Closes: 22/04/2026
UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2 million for pre-commercialisation projects.
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Secure Software for Resilient Growth
Opens: 16/03/2026
Closes: 29/04/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million for collaborative projects that enable adoption of the Government's Software Security Code of Practice to drive growth of secure and resilient software supply chains.
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Frontier AI Discovery
Opens: 14/04/2026
Closes: 10/06/2026
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to develop feasibility studies for frontier AI and foundation models.
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AI Champions: Frontier AI Phase 1
Opens: 17/03/2026
Closes: 29/04/2026
UK registered SME businesses can apply for a share of up to £3m to deliver feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies.
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ICURe Discover Sprint September 2026
Opens: 08/06/2026
Closes: 20/08/2026
Innovate UK ICURe Discover Sprint is an intensive market exploration programme designed to support researchers and technicians in exploring the commercial potential of their ideas.
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Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 7
Opens: 11/03/2026
Closes: 15/07/2026
Funding for feasibility studies, pre-deployment testing, and real-world trials of clean maritime technologies for UK vessels, infrastructure, and/or skills.
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iX Challenge - Reducing gas network purge and vent methane emissions
Opens: 10/03/2026
Closes: 18/05/2026
Cadent Gas is looking for innovative solutions that can significantly reduce or eliminate purging and venting emissions during gas network operations.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Smart personal assistant for security researchers
Opens: 16/03/2026
Closes: 07/05/2026
HMGCC Co-Creation is launching a new 12-week funded challenge to develop a smart personal assistant for security researchers.
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CreaTech Frontiers Growth Lab (West Midlands)
Opens: 17/02/2026
Closes: 15/03/2026
Creative technology businesses in the West Midlands can receive £15,000 worth of bespoke growth and scaling support each.