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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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BBSRC ICURe Explore March 2026
Opens: 08/12/2025
Closes: 06/02/2026
BBSRC ICURe Explore provides financial support of up to £35,000, including a maximum of £20,000 for the Entrepreneurial Lead’s salary, as well as funding for assumption testing and customer discovery activities.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Antenna-boosting materials
Opens: 15/12/2025
Closes: 29/01/2026
Innovators are invited to apply for a challenge focused on the latest developments in antenna technology.
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2025 – 2026 Round 5
Opens: 01/12/2025
Closes: 04/02/2026
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults, working with businesses or not for profits, can apply for a share of up to £10m.
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ARIA: Engineering Ecosystem Resilience - Opportunity Seeds
Opens: 20/11/2025
Closes: 02/02/2026
ARIA seeks proposals for ecosystem engineering for sustainability, with up to £500k per project.
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Develop a prototype leak testing solution for nuclear transport packages
Opens: 02/12/2025
Closes: 02/01/2026
The challenge is seeking a leak testing solution for nuclear transport packages that is portable, easy to use, reliable, and capable of meeting a range of requirements across a range of package sizes and environments.
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Frontier AI ICURe Discover - January 2026
Opens: 20/11/2025
Closes: 17/12/2025
Frontier AI ICURe Discover is a part-time online market exploration programme for researchers, technicians and research students, with up to £2,500 support for market discovery activities.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge - Sandpit event to explore wearable technologies
Opens: 01/12/2025
Closes: 15/01/2026
HMGCC is seeking innovative wearable technology solutions tailored to national security and defence.
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Innovate UK Growth Catalyst – Investor Partnerships Round 2
Opens: 10/12/2025
Closes: 03/02/2026
Grant funding for late-stage R&D projects of up to £2m in size, subject to aligned private investment through Innovate UK’s proven Investor Partnerships funding model.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Enhanced thermally conductive backfill for underground HV cables
Opens: 05/01/2026
Closes: 02/03/2026
This challenge aims to discover more effective solutions to imported thermally conductive sand for backfilling high-voltage cable installations.
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Southwest Wales Net Zero Industry Launchpad - Call for challenge holders
Opens: 04/12/2025
Closes: 19/01/2026
The iX programme is supporting the Net Zero Industry Launchpad to offer an exciting new pilot Challenge Fund, welcoming private and public sector organisations in Southwest Wales to become challenge holders. The project themes will centre around circular economy, net zero and decarbonisation.
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Women in Innovation Awards 2025/26
Opens: 26/11/2025
Closes: 04/02/2026
Women founders or co-founders of UK registered SMEs can apply for a package of support that includes a grant of up to £75,000 and bespoke business support, to further their ambitious growth plans.
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New European Bauhaus start-up accelerator: Catalyse NEB 2026
Opens: 10/11/2025
Closes: 19/01/2026
Catalyse NEB will support 20 NEB-minded businesses that put at the core social innovation as key to deliver systems change and new ways of living together.
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Global Incubator Programme: Agri-Tech - Canada
Opens: 14/11/2025
Closes: 11/01/2026
Innovate UK seeks innovative Agri-Tech companies to participate in the Global Incubator Programme for market visits to Canada in April and July 2026.
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EUP OHAMR 2026 transnational call: New treatments to tackle Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
Opens: 18/11/2025
Closes: 02/02/2026
International call to explore new "Treatments and adherence to treatment protocols" to tackle AMR, total call budget of over 31 million Euro.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Separation Technology to Remove Polymer Coating and Contaminants from Post-Consumer Leather
Opens: 12/11/2025
Closes: 02/01/2026
The challenge involves developing a separation technology to remove durable polymer layers from sheets of leather, leather pieces and leather fibres.
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CyberASAP Pathfinder 2026
Opens: 06/11/2025
Closes: 04/12/2025
CyberASAP Pathfinder is a three-day bootcamp for academics, providing the necessary guidance and support for researchers to commercialise their ideas.
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DRIVE35 Scale-up: Feasibility Studies 2
Opens: 10/11/2025
Closes: 17/12/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for feasibility studies into UK manufacturing of zero emission vehicle technologies. This funding is from the Department for Business and Trade.
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Smarter Transport Systems AI Competition
Opens: 05/11/2025
Closes: 21/11/2025
Seeking innovative AI solutions that can revolutionise transport, delivering faster, cleaner, and more affordable journeys for everyone.
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Sustainable alternative raw materials to fossil derived hydrocarbons for the manufacture of speciality vacuum greases
Opens: 10/11/2025
Closes: 19/12/2025
The Innovation Exchange (iX) programme is supporting M&I Materials Ltd to find innovators who can provide alternative sustainable hydrocarbon feedstock sources suitable for the use in the manufacture of speciality vacuum greases.
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Biomedical Catalyst 2025: Industry led R&D small projects
Opens: 10/11/2025
Closes: 11/12/2025
UK registered micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £25 million for the development of innovative solutions to health and healthcare challenges. This funding is from Innovate UK.
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Biomedical Catalyst 2025: Industry led R&D large projects
Opens: 10/11/2025
Closes: 11/12/2025
UK registered micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £25 million for the development of innovative solutions to health and healthcare challenges. This funding is from Innovate UK.