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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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Fibre in Water: Improving access to advanced broadband and mobile services via drinking water mains
Opens: 09/08/2021
Closes: 04/10/2021
Fibre in Water (FiW) is a competition run by DCMS from HM Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund and supported by DEFRA, BEIS and Cabinet Office. It will allocate up to £4m R&D funding to projects that develop and build a pilot to facilitate delivery of advanced broadband and mobile services via drinking water mains.
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KTN-iX challenge: Heat recovery and reuse within the food manufacturing process
Opens: 30/07/2021
Closes: 10/09/2021
The iX competition, delivered by the Knowledge Transfer Network, is supporting Lewis Pies to identify solutions to innovation challenges. This current challenge relates to the need to reduce the energy demand and cost associated with producing pies and pasties at their Swansea site, particularly relating to capturing and reusing the heat produced by the chillers, freezers and ovens onsite.
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KTN-iX challenge: Energy efficient air compressors for food manufacturing
Opens: 30/07/2021
Closes: 10/09/2021
The iX competition, delivered by the Knowledge Transfer Network, is supporting Lewis Pies to identify solutions to innovation challenges. This current challenge relates to the need to reduce the energy demand and cost associated with producing pies and pasties at their Swansea site, particularly relating to the air compressors used to drive the manufacturing equipment.
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Children and Young People’s Emotional Health, Wellbeing and Resilience Challenge
Opens: 02/08/2021
Closes: 31/08/2021
An SBRI challenge from NHS Wales, to provide digital support around early intervention and prevention for children and young people aged 8-11 to build resilience in their emotional health and well-being.
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Women in Innovation Awards 2021/22
Opens: 23/08/2021
Closes: 13/10/2021
Women with exciting, innovative ideas who will inspire others can apply for a £50,000 grant and bespoke business support.
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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.