Opportunities Archive
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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Women in Innovation Awards 2020/21
Opens: 01/09/2020
Closes: 14/10/2020
Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, is offering 10 Women in Innovation Awards to female entrepreneurs across the UK. The winners will receive a £50,000 grant and a bespoke package of mentoring, coaching and business support.
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The new KTN SME Accelerator: Accelerating innovative Chemistry & Industrial Biotechnology solutions for a Net Zero World
Opens: 02/09/2020
Closes: 30/09/2020
Offering a valuable package of training & support to a cohort of 10-15 promising early & late-stage innovators, in order to accelerate their pathway towards commercialisation and enabling the UK to build more resilient chemical supply chains.
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Brazil Energy Programme Challenge Competitions
Opens: 17/08/2020
Closes: 11/09/2020
The Brazil Energy Programme (BEP) grant competition for British and international companies is now open, inviting participation in grant-funded demonstration projects of innovative low carbon technologies. The first competition is for three projects to demonstrate solar power, storage and home energy management technology in Brazil. Approximately £3m in grant funding will be awarded in this round.
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CRACK IT Challenges for 2020 announced
Opens: 14/09/2020
Closes: 05/11/2020
Up to £3.5 million funding is available through the 2020 CRACK IT Challenges competition, run by NC3Rs, the National Centre for the Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of the use of animals in medical research.
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Innovation call for technology to stop armed or violent offenders
Opens: 21/08/2020
Closes: 15/10/2020
Competition to find and develop ideas to give police more options to defuse dangerous situations and keep the public safe without resorting to lethal force. An initial £500,000 funding is available for innovators with up to £500,000 additional funding for a later phase.
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Innovate UK Smart Grants: August 2020
Opens: 28/08/2020
Closes: 25/11/2020
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. Apply by 25th November.
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ISCF Transforming foundation industries: Building a resilient recovery
Opens: 03/08/2020
Closes: 04/11/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of £8 million in grant funding for projects supporting recovery and growth of the UK’s foundation industries: cement, paper, glass, ceramics, metals and bulk chemicals.
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Automotive Transformation Fund expression of interest: August 2020
Opens: 10/08/2020
Closes: 02/09/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for R&D and capital projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.
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Transforming food production: series A investor partnership programme
Opens: 13/08/2020
Closes: 09/09/2020
Investors can apply to partner with Innovate UK to align their investments with up to £5 million grant funding in UK registered SMEs to transform food production towards net zero by 2040. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
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APC 17: developing the UK’s low carbon automotive capability
Opens: 17/08/2020
Closes: 04/10/2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £27 million for UK-developed late stage R&D, to support growth in advanced low carbon propulsion capability in the automotive sector.
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Innovation continuity loans: Strand 2 August 2020 follow-on competition
Opens: 18/08/2020
Closes: 02/09/2020
Innovate UK can provide additional COVID-19 innovation continuity loans for the continuation of planned or existing innovation activity.
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Eureka Eurostars 2: round 14
Opens: 27/07/2020
Closes: 03/09/2020
UK SMEs can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to collaborate in research with partners across Europe and associated countries.
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Deliver safer and better care for people in Scotland with diabetes, phase 1 (SBRI competition)
Opens: 10/08/2020
Closes: 23/09/2020
Organisations can apply for a share of £300,000 including VAT, to address foot problems, hospital care after admission and bone care for diabetes patients in Scotland.
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IETF industrial energy efficiency and decarbonisation studies
Opens: 20/07/2020
Closes: 28/10/2020
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million for grants to carry out feasibility and engineering studies into energy efficiency and decarbonisation.
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IETF deployment of energy efficiency technologies in industry
Opens: 20/07/2020
Closes: 28/10/2020
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million for grants for energy efficiency projects that reduce fuel bills and carbon emissions.
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Sort and segregate nuclear waste: phase 1 (SBRI competition)
Opens: 17/08/2020
Closes: 11/11/2020
Organisations can apply for a share of £3.9 million, including VAT, to develop an autonomous, integrated toolkit to sort and segregate nuclear waste.
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Travel and subsistence funding to support LMIC (low and middle-income countries) engagement during the Covid-19 outbreak
Opens: 13/03/2020
Closes: 31/05/2020
This scheme provides travel and subsistence funding to support delivery of technical expertise in the global response to Covid-19.
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Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - July-Oct 2020
Opens: 16/07/2020
Closes: 28/10/2020
You can improve your business’ competitiveness and productivity through funded partnerships with academics and researchers. Management KTPs are also available, with a separate dedicated funding pot. Extended deadline – now closing 28th October.
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Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - Nov 2020 to Jan 2021
Opens: 02/11/2020
Closes: 27/01/2021
You can improve your business’ competitiveness and productivity through funded partnerships with academics and researchers. Management KTPs are also available, with a separate dedicated funding pot. Next round will open 8th Feb 2021.
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Using digital technology to support psychological therapies (SBRI competition)
Opens: 20/07/2020
Closes: 09/09/2020
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £345,000 (inc VAT) to develop new solutions using digital technology to provide psychological support.
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Designing sustainable plastic solutions
Opens: 03/06/2020
Closes: 16/09/2020
Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £800,000 to fund early-stage, human-centred design projects to reduce the harm that plastics have on our environment and to therefore increase productivity and growth of the UK economy.