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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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Horticultural Quality and Food Loss Network: May 2021 opportunities
Closing Soon
Opens: 04/05/2021
Closes: 06/08/2021
The Horticultural Quality and Food Loss Network is providing £90k for pump-priming funds for feasibility studies and preliminary data collection, ring-fenced funds for Early Career Researchers, £5k for Business Interaction Vouchers, and £5k for Networking Visit Funding, open to all UK based researchers at UKRI eligible institutions.
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Innovation loans: April 2021 open competition
Opens: 26/04/2021
Closes: 02/06/2021
Businesses can apply for loans from £250k to £1.6m for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.
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Royal Society Short Industry Fellowships 2021
Opens: 26/04/2021
Closes: 27/05/2021
This scheme, part of the Royal Society’s Industry programme, enables scientists employed in industry or academia and/or their postdoctoral researcher to have shorter more dynamic engagements between academia and industry, working on a mutually beneficial and collaborative project.
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SBRI: Simulation Technology for Healthcare Training
Opens: 26/04/2021
Closes: 28/05/2021
Pre Covid-19, Tracheostomy training was delivered through online education and face-to-face simulation training, but the latter is now difficult due to Covid-19. NHS Wales are looking to identify and demonstrate simulation technology solutions, ready for ‘real world’ deployment by no later than October 2021, with the possibility of expanding to other health sectors such as life support.
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Medicines and Diagnostics Manufacturing Transformation Fund
Opens: 07/04/2021
Closes: 30/06/2021
New £20 million fund to grow UK life sciences manufacturing opens for applications
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SBRI: Outpatient Transformation for NHS Wales
Opens: 19/04/2021
Closes: 14/05/2021
The way outpatient services are being delivered in Wales is undergoing a period of transformation to ensure that it delivers care for patients in a prudent and value-based way for a sustainable health-care model for the future. NHS Wales seeks innovations to support one or more of: management of conditions that require multiple tests; patient-clinician digital communication; and review of images/samples.
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Fisheries and Seafood Scheme - open funding
Rolling deadline, 8-week turnaround
The Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (rolling applications with an 8-week turnaround) will provide financial support for projects in England that secure sustainable growth across the catching, processing and aquaculture sectors, and that protect and enhance the marine environment.
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STFC CERN Business Incubation Centre
Opens: 12/04/2021
Closes: 30/04/2021
The STFC CERN Business Incubation Centre offers funding, business support and technical assistance to entrepreneurs and small high-tech companies seeking to accelerate their innovative business concepts.
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Horizon Europe Covid-19 funding opportunities
Opens: 13/04/2021
Closes: 20/05/2021
Four linked calls for Covid-19 related research and innovation actions, with a total budget of over €100m; these cover clinical trials, cohort management and monitoring, research infrastructure, and open data sharing.
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SBRI Competition - Assays for SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) cellular immune responses
Opens: 26/04/2021
Closes: 26/05/2021
Organisations can apply for a share of £1.5million inclusive of VAT, to develop assay systems to define the magnitude and profile of cellular immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 (known as Covid-19).
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Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2021-22, round 2
Opens: 19/04/2021
Closes: 30/06/2021
UK academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £6m to fund innovation projects with businesses or not-for-profits.
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Innovation in time dissemination and application
Opens: 19/04/2021
Closes: 09/06/2021
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million for business-led innovation in resilient time, frequency and synchronisation.
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APC 18: developing the UK’s low carbon automotive capability
Opens: 29/03/2021
Closes: 05/05/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million for UK-developed late-stage R&D, to support growth in advanced low carbon propulsion capability in the automotive sector and its associated supply chain.
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Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 9
Opens: 29/03/2021
Closes: 21/04/2021
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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KTN-iX challenge: Monitoring Movement in Crowds
Opens: 22/03/2021
Closes: 06/05/2021
The Innovation Exchange (iX), delivered in partnership with HMG and KTN, is looking to identify innovative solutions to a number of challenges around overseeing, anonymously, the movement of people in shared spaces with the intent of ensuring crowd safety.
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Scottish Enterprise funding for green jobs
Opens: 18/05/2021
Closes: 15/06/2021
A new series of funding rounds to help businesses in the Scottish Enterprise area create jobs that contribute to improving the environment and achieving net zero emissions.
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Apply for a grant to help small and medium-sized businesses new to importing or exporting
Opens: 01/03/2021
Closes: 30/06/2021
The SME Brexit Support Fund could give you up to £2,000 to help with training or professional advice, if your business has up to 500 employees and no more than £100 million annual turnover.
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xTech Global AI Challenge: AI-enabled Multi-modal Analytics in Resource Constrained Environments
Opens: 25/03/2021
Closes: 12/05/2021
The US Army, in partnership with US Air Force and US Navy, is seeking robust, AI-enabled capabilities to manage, integrate, and process, and reason on disparate data/information sources for rapid decision making. $250,000 total funding is available.
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SBRI Zero emission road freight, supporting uptake of battery electric trucks
Opens: 22/03/2021
Closes: 21/04/2021
Organisations can apply for a share of £10 million, inclusive of VAT, to provide an innovative solution to enable fleets to switch to battery electric trucks.
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£3.6 million for tech ensuring offshore windfarms can coexist with UK Air Defence
Opens: 23/03/2021
Closes: 15/06/2021
DASA has announced Phase 2 of the competition Windfarm Mitigation for UK Air Defence, offering up to £3.6 million for technologies that mitigate radar risk of offshore windfarms.
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Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats: 2021 Commissioning Call
Opens: 29/03/2021
Closes: 05/05/2021
The UK Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats wishes to commission a programme of activities that addresses some of the current security threats facing the UK.