Grant Funding Calls

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A £20 million challenge fund to deploy advanced technology for traffic signals, making use of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to optimise traffic flow and balance traffic across wider areas.

Programme:     ITMF

Award:     Share of up to £20 million

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UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners.

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 £2 million in grant funding to deliver AI demonstrator projects. These projects are intended to benefit efficiency in supply chains and increase firm level productivity.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for the purpose of developing innovative proposals with Singapore. You must collaborate with at least one Singapore business applying under the equivalent Enterprise Singapore programme.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £5 million

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SBRI Healthcare provides a mechanism to signal the challenges that the NHS and the wider system face and invites entrepreneurs to deploy innovative solutions to deliver improved outcomes of care and efficiencies.

Programme:     SBRI

Award:     Share of up to £800,000

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SBRI Healthcare provides a mechanism to signal the challenges that the NHS and the wider system face and invites entrepreneurs to deploy innovative solutions to deliver improved outcomes of care and efficiencies.

Programme:     SBRI

Award:     Share of up to £800,000

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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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This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) Innovation in Support of Operations competition is seeking proposals that can make a real-world difference, fast and at scale.

Programme:     DASA

Award:     Share of up to £2 million

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The King’s Awards for Enterprise are for outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of: innovation, international trade, sustainable development and promoting opportunity through social mobility.

Programme:     Kings Award

Award:     Innovation, Trade, Sustainable Development, Social Mobility

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for collaborative research and development (CR&D) in partnership with organisations from participating Eurostars countries.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2.5 million

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The SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) Healthcare Programme is committed to supporting the NHS in delivering the objectives of the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP).

Programme:     SBRI

Award:     Share of up to £500,000

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The SBRI Healthcare Phase 3 funding competition invites innovations at an advanced stage of development to accelerate their uptake into relevant health or social care settings.

Programme:     SBRI

Award:     Share of up to £500,000

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A funding programme tailored to the needs of SMEs to strengthen and further encourage technology innovation within the supply chain and civil aerospace sector.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of £1.5 million

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UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £9 million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not for profits.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £9 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million for collaboration with Canadian SMEs on joint R&D projects, for enabling technologies and innovations in biomanufacturing of biologics and advanced therapies.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £3 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million for business led projects that grow their innovation activities in the marine and maritime cluster in the Great South West. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £3 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million for projects that grow their innovation activities in the marine and maritime cluster in the Great South West. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £3 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 innovations 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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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £1 million to develop projects focused on industrial research with the Israel Innovation Authority.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £1 million

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £1 million to develop technologies in the field of Disaster Resilience, Response and Recovery, in partnership with organisations from participating Eureka countries.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £1 million

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Are you a small or medium-sized business seeking to develop a new product, process or service? A SMART: SCOTLAND grant can support technically focused feasibility studies to help discover if your idea will work in the real world.

Programme:     Scottish Enterprise

Award:     Share of up to £100,000

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The Welsh Government is investing £30 million in new programmes that will help Welsh organisations develop and embed new innovative products and services to help improve people’s lives, grow the economy and address the climate and nature emergency.

Programme:     The Welsh Government

Award:     Share of up to £30 million

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If you’re looking to grow your Scottish manufacturing business through developing low carbon products, processes or services, you can apply for the LCMCF grant.

Programme:     Scottish Enterprise

Award:     Share of up to £26 million