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ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest December 2020
Closing Soon
Opens: 07/12/2020
Closes: 23/12/2020
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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Innovate UK Smart Grants: November 2020
Opens: 02/12/2020
Closes: 20/01/2021
Opportunity for UK registered organisations to apply for a share of up to £25 million from Innovate UK to deliver disruptive R&D innovations that can significantly impact the UK economy.
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Welsh Government Face Masks Challenge
Opens: 11/11/2020
Closes: 04/12/2020
How can we supply clinical staff with more appropriately fitting, safe and economical respiratory protection, and ensure more efficient delivery of an assured fit?
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SBRI Greenhouse Gas Removals Innovation Competition - Phase 1 (Design Study)
Opens: 09/11/2020
Closes: 05/02/2021
The supplier must undertake and report on a design study into the development of innovative greenhouse gas removals or related enabling technologies (excluding afforestation or habitat restoration).
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Innovation continuity loans November 2020 - three strands
Opens: 06/11/2020
Closes: 13/01/2021
Innovate UK is offering up to £210 million in loans to small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and third sector organisations that have a challenge in continuing, completing or following on an innovation project. Loans are for organisations that find themselves facing a sudden shortage or even unavailability of funds resulting directly from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 6
Opens: 10/11/2020
Closes: 10/12/2020
Four years’ funding is available to support ambitious research/innovation programmes across UKRI’s remit, and fellows benefit from outstanding support to develop their careers.
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Henry Royce Institute: SME Equipment Access Scheme
Opens: 06/11/2020
Closes: 20/03/2021
The Henry Royce Institute for advanced materials is offering access to state-of-the-art materials science and engineering equipment to support SMEs, spin-outs and start-ups.
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Iberdrola Start-up Challenge: Power Electronics
Opens: 02/11/2020
Closes: 31/12/2020
Multi-national energy company Iberdrola have launched a new Startup Challenge, in search of competitive and innovative solutions, based on power electronics, to optimize medium and low voltage networks, improving their flexibility in different load scenarios.
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Welsh Government SBRI: Better Lives Closer To Home
Opens: 04/11/2020
Closes: 27/11/2020
Welsh Government and the SBRI Centre of Excellence will fund organisations to develop new products or services that will support our long term health and wellbeing with a focus on better lives closer to home. Your solution must help communities, businesses or the public sector.
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ATI programme: R&D funding for smaller business, expression of interest, Autumn 2020
Opens: 09/11/2020
Closes: 06/01/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8 million to carry out industry-led civil aerospace collaborative R&D projects
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SMEs transforming food production: series A investor partnership
Opens: 03/11/2020
Closes: 13/01/2021
UK registered SMEs that are transforming food production towards net zero can apply for a share of up to £5 million in grant support. This must align with a series A investment.
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ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest November 2020
Opens: 02/11/2020
Closes: 18/11/2020
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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Locating faults in onshore aluminium cables
Opens: 27/10/2020
Closes: 30/11/2020
SSE Renewables has launched a challenge on KTN’s Innovation Exchange to identify transferable solutions to its cable monitoring needs. The winning business(es) will be given a commercial opportunity to deliver their solution, and receive support from SSE Renewables, KTN, Catapults and the wider Innovate UK network.
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Delivering peer-to-peer energy trading across non-domestic Local Energy Systems
Opens: 09/10/2020
Closes: 13/11/2020
West Suffolk Council are looking for a partner/s able to trial peer-to-peer energy trading solutions alongside improvements to energy efficiency, renewable energy, grid capacity constraints and balancing.
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Automotive Transformation Fund expression of interest: October 2020
Opens: 19/10/2020
Closes: 11/11/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital investment and R&D projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.
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UK and Canada biomanufacturing innovations in cell and gene therapies
Opens: 26/10/2020
Closes: 23/12/2020
A collaborative opportunity with the National Research Council of Canada on process improvement in biomanufacturing of gene and cell therapies.
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Call for expression of interest to join the Space2Waves Internationalisation Programme
Opens: 01/10/2020
Closes: 16/12/2020
Are you a European SME developing innovative products or services using Earth Observation applied to marine and maritime domains? Join the SpaceWave Alliance internationalisation programme! 30 SMEs will be selected to go global in Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. Deadline extended to 16th Dec.
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ISCF Future Plastic Packaging Solutions
Opens: 26/10/2020
Closes: 20/01/2021
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for early-stage projects in smart and sustainable plastic packaging.
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Environmentally sustainable compounds for hair conditioners
Opens: 16/10/2020
Closes: 11/12/2020
Croda has launched a challenge on KTN’s Innovation Exchange to identify solutions that could lead to the next generation in hair conditioners. Industry or academia problem solvers will be given a commercial opportunity and receive support from Croda, KTN and the wider Innovate UK network.
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SBRI: Innovate at HS2 2020, phase 1
Opens: 21/10/2020
Closes: 16/12/2020
This is an SBRI competition funded by HS2 Ltd. The aim of the competition is to deliver innovation that will drive project efficiencies and process optimisations during the design and construction phase of HS2. Feasibility study R&D contracts in phase 1 will be up to £30,000 each for 3-month projects.
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Improving Access to Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure - Scotland
Opens: 12/10/2020
Closes: 07/12/2020
Scottish Enterprise wishes to procure R&D services to explore and develop technological solutions to the challenge of improving access to electric vehicles charging infrastructure.