Grant Funding Calls

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Accelerator course and access to funding for startups and early-stage businesses using AI to solve complex, unmet healthcare problems.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £100,000

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £6 million for innovation projects demonstrating quantum technology solutions for determining position, navigation and time. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £6 million

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Organisations can apply for a share of £994,000, inclusive of VAT, to develop AI Education tools to support effective assessment of progress and feedback for pupils using an AI code library.

Programme:     The Department for Education

Award:     Share of up to £994,000

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UK registered businesses can apply for funding to resolve productivity and competitiveness issues by working with top scientists and research facilities.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Successful stage 2 applications will be grant funded

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Commercial help and funding for early-stage companies, university spinouts and entrepreneurial-minded academics focused on women’s health.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £100,000

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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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The Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Programme which aims to improve the manufacturing innovation ecosystem in the UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £10 million

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Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to invest up to £15 million to support the development and adoption of sustainable technologies for the manufacturing of medicines.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £15m

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UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £15 million to develop innovative solutions to health, and healthcare, challenges. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £15 million

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Organisations can apply for a share of £500,000, inclusive of VAT, to deliver feasibility studies addressing international rail challenges.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £500,000

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CELTIC-NEXT has opened a call for organisations collaborating internationally on the R&D of ICT projects. By applying and participating, your organisation can access national public funding for your R&D project.

Programme:     Eureka

Award:     Share of up to £750,000

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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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The NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme is launching another round of FAST – Funding At the Speed of Translation.

Programme:     NIHR

Award:     Share of up to £1.5m

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Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative Discovery Phase Projects that meet the Round 4 challenges. This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.

Programme:     Ofgem

Award:     Share of up to £30 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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Supporting companies looking to investigate the feasibility and commercial viability of services which address pharmaceutical sustainability challenges.

Programme:     European Space Agency

Award:     Share of up to EUR100k

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European Space Agency seeks opportunities for space-enabled solutions that support the safeguarding of children and young people.

Programme:     European Space Agency

Award:     Share of up to EUR250,000

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Apply for funding to support emerging or established research partnerships between businesses and academic partners (lead must be UK-based).

Programme:     Medical Research Council

Award:     Share of up to £10.5 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for business led projects that grow their innovation activities in the agri-tech and food technology cluster in Eastern England. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2.5 million

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UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for business led projects that grow their innovation activities in the agri-tech and food technology cluster in Eastern England. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2.5 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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ITEA has opened a call for organisations collaborating internationally on the R&D of software innovation projects. By applying and participating, your organisation can access national public funding for your R&D project.

Programme:     Eureka

Award:     Share of up to £750,000

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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.

Programme:     SBRI Healthcare

Award:     Share of up to £200,000

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The Eurogia2030 programme intent is to address issues in the Energy market in order to develop the Eurogia2030 5Ds Strategy.

Programme:     Eureka

Award:     Share of up to £750,000

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The Open Call is one of the funding competition mechanisms DASA uses to find proposals that address challenges faced by government stakeholders.

Programme:     DASA

Award:     Share of up to £250,000

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Nature-based Solutions (NBS) leverage healthy ecosystems to enhance protections for society, optimise infrastructure, and ensure a biodiverse future.

Programme:     European Space Agency

Award:     Share of up to £100,000

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Nature-based Solutions (NBS) leverage healthy ecosystems to enhance protections for society, optimise infrastructure, and ensure a biodiverse future.

Programme:     European Space Agency

Award:     Share of up to EUR100,000

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The new CETP funding call will open for applications from September 2024. It’s a EUR100m programme with EUR5m available from Scottish Enterprise for transnational research, technological development and innovation funding programme which is designed to boost and accelerate energy transition across 30 countries.

Programme:     CETPartnership

Award:     Share of up to EUR 5m

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Funding to develop sustainable space-based services and applications related to the electromobility ecosystem.

Programme:     European Space Agency

Award:     Share of up to EUR200,000

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million to develop Innovative proposals in partnership with Japan and other participating Eureka countries.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £2 million

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UK registered organisations based in Wales, can apply for a grant funding request between £100,000 and £250,000. The organisations must develop innovative products, services or experiences for the media sector.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £700,000

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UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million to enhance UK and German collaborations in emerging fields of technology. You must collaborate with at least one German SME applying under the equivalent German ZIM programme.

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 £3.7 million for R&D projects that provide digital therapeutics for mental health solutions. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     Share of up to £3.7 million

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Xecs, a Eureka Cluster specifically designed to accelerate the pace of sustainable industrial innovation in the electronics components and systems community is launching its fourth call for projects.

Programme:     Eureka

Award:     Share of up to £750k

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ESA seeks to support development of sustainable space-based services and applications related to maritime decarbonisation.

Programme:     European Space Agency

Award:     Share of up to EUR 2m

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Funding to support the use of space-based assets to improve the European Rail system

Programme:     European Space Agency

Award:     Share of up to EUR500,000

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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