Grant Funding Calls

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The British Business Bank has announced the first wave of its £250million Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), with the launch of £120million of SME debt finance, which is now available to businesses across the 10 Local Enterprise Partnership areas in the Midlands.

Aimed at eliminating regional imbalances in funding, the British Business Bank is keen to support fast-growth organisations and businesses looking to expand into new markets and boost productivity, supporting job creation.

Programme:     British Business Bank

Award:     Up to £2m in lending and investment

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Synthetic biology is the design and fabrication of biological components and systems that do not already exist in the natural world. The process of taking synthetic biology concepts and turning them into real world solutions is engineering biology.

Programme:     DASA

Award:     Share of up to £1.5 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million for early-stage, people and planet centred design projects to influence their future R&D activity.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4 million for projects up to £2 million in size.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £4 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of £40 million for late-stage R&D projects that help accelerate the UK towards a net zero automotive future.

Programme:     APC

Award:     Share of up to £40 million

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Phase 2 of the IETF provides grant funding for feasibility and engineering studies, and for the deployment of industrial energy efficiency and deep decarbonisation projects.

Programme:     BEIS

Award:     Share of up to £70 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £25 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for collaborative research with organisations from participating Eureka Eurostars members countries.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2.5 million

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The BEIS IEEA is a funding programme designed to support partnerships between developers of energy/resource efficient technologies and industrial companies willing to demonstrate the technologies on-site.

Programme:     BEIS

Award:     Share of up to £8 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million across the two strands of this competition to develop innovative solutions for sustainable farm-based protein production. This funding is from the Farming Futures R&D Fund.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £12.5 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million across the two strands of this competition to develop innovative solutions for sustainable farm-based protein production. This funding is from the Farming Futures R&D Fund.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £12.5 million

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This competition is part of the SBRI programme which aims to bring novel solutions to Government departments’ issues by engaging with innovative companies that would not be reached in other ways.

Programme:     SBRI

Award:     Share of up to £100k

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UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £25 million to develop innovative solutions to health and healthcare challenges. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £25 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £140 million to demonstrate battery and hydrogen fuel cell trucks.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £140 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £140 million to demonstrate battery electric trucks.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £140 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £140 million to demonstrate hydrogen fuel cell trucks.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £140 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £25 million

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Information about the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme

Programme:     Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs

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UK public sector organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.9 million to better exploit high-potential intangible assets. This funding is from the Knowledge Asset Grant Fund programme and delivered by the Government Office for Technology Transfer.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £13 million

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UK public sector organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.9 million to better exploit high-potential intangible assets. This funding is from the Knowledge Asset Grant Fund programme and delivered by the Government Office for Technology Transfer.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2.9 million

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UK public sector organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.9 million to better exploit high-potential intangible assets. This funding is from the Knowledge Asset Grant Fund programme and delivered by the Government Office for Technology Transfer.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2.9 million

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DTEP is designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the UK to develop innovative materials, technologies and processes, and to enhance defence supply chains.

Programme:     DASA

Award:     Share of up to £16 million