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Faraday Battery Challenge: Innovation Feasibility Studies, Round 4
Opens: 28/09/2020
Closes: 09/12/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million in grant funding for innovation in electric vehicle battery technology. This competition strand will draw on the most exciting, high potential impact, early stage research where a 12 month feasibility study can catalyse the route to commercialisation. Recorded video briefing now available!
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Faraday Battery Challenge: Innovation R&D, Round 4
Opens: 28/09/2020
Closes: 09/12/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million in grant funding for innovation in electric vehicle battery technology. The aim of this competition strand is to support the research and development of the most promising innovative battery technologies for the propulsion of electric vehicles, building on the outputs of previous activity to accelerate towards commercialisation. Briefing recording now available.
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SBRI competition - Modernising Energy Data Applications phase 1
Opens: 12/10/2020
Closes: 18/11/2020
Organisations of any size can apply for a share of £750,000, inclusive of VAT, to develop data applications that help to address core challenges faced in the UK. The aim of the competition is to develop data applications that address the challenges faced by organisations and individuals to deliver net zero local energy systems. Briefing recording now available.
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Automotive Transformation Fund expression of interest: September 2020
Opens: 21/09/2020
Closes: 14/10/2020
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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British Antarctic Survey: decarbonising the energy supply at Antarctic research stations
Opens: 14/09/2020
Closes: 23/10/2020
BAS is using KTN’s Innovation Exchange to search for solutions to purchase to decarbonise its energy demand for heating, hot water and power at two of its island research stations – Bird Island and Signy.
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British Antarctic Survey: decarbonising polar vehicles
Opens: 14/09/2020
Closes: 23/10/2020
BAS is using KTN’s Innovation Exchange to look for solutions to help decarbonise the polar vehicles used at its Sky Blu Logistics Facility.
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GCRF AgriFood Africa Innovation Awards Competition
Opens: 15/09/2020
Closes: 10/11/2020
KTN is pleased to announce a further call for GCRF AgriFood Africa Innovation Awards to encourage UK research partners to address AgriFood challenges in Africa. In total, up to £800k will be available to support a maximum of 20 awards.
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SBRI Competition - Next generation home vision testing
Opens: 21/09/2020
Closes: 18/11/2020
Organisations can apply for a share of £100,000 inclusive of VAT, to develop remotely deployed vision testing.
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5G enabled road and rail transport trials in the West Midlands, round 2
Opens: 16/09/2020
Closes: 02/12/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to support development of 5G enabled transport innovations. This funding is from West Midlands 5G (WM5G).
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Healthy ageing: investor partnership programme, round 2
Opens: 07/09/2020
Closes: 04/11/2020
Investors can apply to partner with Innovate UK to align their investments with up to £12 million grant funding in UK registered SMEs delivering innovation in the healthy ageing market. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
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Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre
Opens: 11/09/2020
Closes: 08/10/2020
The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre have opened a new call for proposals, offering grant funding for industry-led, collaborative R&D projects to align with innovation challenges within Scottish aquaculture.
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Accenture FinTech Innovation Lab London
Opens: 01/09/2020
Closes: 04/10/2020
The FinTech Innovation Lab is a highly competitive, 12-week program that helps early to growth-stage enterprise technology companies refine and test their value proposition with the support of the world’s leading financial service firms.
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EPSRC Future Manufacturing Feasibility Studies for advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing
Opens: 20/08/2020
Closes: 01/10/2020
The EPSRC Future Manufacturing CMAC Research Hub is offering funding to support four Feasibility Studies at TRLs 1 – 4. The funding is available for novel short-term research studies of advanced manufacturing technologies to complement the current Hub research programme of advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing.
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NHS Innovation Accelerator Call for Applicants – 2021 cohort
Opens: 01/09/2020
Closes: 16/10/2020
Applications for this Call must address at least one of the following themes: NHS response to COVID-19; Mental health; Supporting the workforce. The NIA particularly welcomes female applicants and applicants from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, as they are currently underrepresented amongst our Fellows.
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Redistributed Manufacturing in Healthcare Network (RIHN)
Opens: 01/09/2020
Closes: 30/10/2020
Redistributed Manufacturing (RDM) in healthcare involves moving production closer to the point-of-care, helping clinicians to deliver better outcomes through medical products, technologies and therapies that are available on-demand and tailored to patient needs. The RIHN now seeks to fund novel applications of RDM for use in challenging mobile environments, supporting the practice of humanitarian, military and emergency medical care.
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Measurement for Recovery
Opens: 01/09/2020
Closes: 31/12/2020
Measurement for Recovery helps solve analysis or measurement issues that cannot be resolved using standard technologies and techniques. Our aim is to help boost resilience and competitiveness by bringing together the UK’s top scientists and facilities with companies, to address problems in innovative ways.
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XPRIZE Rainforest
Opens: 01/11/2019
Closes: 15/03/2021
The $10M XPRIZE Rainforest is a five-year competition. The winning team will develop novel technologies to rapidly and comprehensively survey rainforest biodiversity and use that data to improve our understanding of this complex ecosystem.
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ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest September 2020
Opens: 07/09/2020
Closes: 23/09/2020
The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive. Up to €20m per project is available, with total funding £3.9bn.
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Innovation continuity loans: Strand 2: September 2020 follow-on competition
Opens: 02/09/2020
Closes: 30/09/2020
Innovate UK can provide additional COVID-19 innovation continuity loans for the continuation of planned or existing innovation activity. Loans of between £250,000 and £1.6 million are available.
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$2000 scholarship for students with a precision agriculture idea that will have a positive impact on the environment
Opens: 01/09/2020
Closes: 02/10/2020
Farms.com is running a contest for UK, US and Canadian students to win one of three scholarships.
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The Sustainable Innovation Fund: round 3 (temporary framework)
Opens: 01/09/2020
Closes: 30/09/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million for new projects focusing on sustainable economic recovery from COVID-19.