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  • Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 6: Smart Shipping

    UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million for innovative Smart Shipping technologies and skills for maritime decarbonisation. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to collaborations only.

    To lead a project your organisation must:

    • be a UK registered business of any size
    • collaborate with other UK registered organisations

    Open now

    Opened:
    24 January 2025
    Closes:
    16 April 2025

  • Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 6: Pre-deployment trials

    UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million for innovative clean maritime technologies. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to collaborations only.

    To lead a project your organisation must:

    • be a UK registered business of any size
    • collaborate with other UK registered organisations

    Open now

    Opened:
    24 January 2025
    Closes:
    16 April 2025

  • Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 6: Feasibility Studies

    UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million for innovative clean maritime technologies and skills. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to collaborations only.

    To lead a project your organisation must be:

    • a UK registered business of any size
    • collaborate with other UK registered organisations

    Open now

    Opened:
    24 January 2025
    Closes:
    16 April 2025

  • Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme Y9: phase 1

    Individuals based in a UK academic institution can apply for a share of up to £800,000 to join the Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP).

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations.

    To lead a project you must:

    • be based in a UK registered academic institution
    • have an idea related to cyber security
    • be interested in commercialising your idea
    • have the support of your academic institution’s technology transfer office or equivalent

    Open now

    Opened:
    20 January 2025
    Closes:
    12 February 2025

  • APC26: Industrialising net zero automotive technology

    UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £40 million for late stage R&D projects. These projects will help accelerate the UK transition to zero emission vehicles and towards a net zero automotive future.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to collaborations only. To lead a project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.

    You must involve at least one grant claiming micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) and evidence a clear route to market at the end of the project.

    Open now

    Opened:
    14 January 2025
    Closes:
    14 March 2025

  • Innovate UK innovation loans future economy: Round 19

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

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to single applications from micro, small or medium sized enterprises (SME) registered in the UK.

    Open now

    Opened:
    9 January 2025
    Closes:
    5 March 2025

  • Contracts for Innovation: Accessible Information on Coaches

    Organisations can apply for a share of up to £680,000, inclusive of VAT. This is to develop an affordable, user friendly hardware and software solution, which provides accessible audio visual information on coaches.

    Eligibility

    To lead a project, you can:

    • be an organisation of any size
    • work alone or with other organisations as subcontractors

    Contracts will be awarded to a single legal entity only.

    Open now

    Opened:
    16 December 2024
    Closes:
    12 February 2025

  • Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2024 to 2025 Round 5

    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.

    Eligibility

    To lead a project your organisation must:

    • be a UK registered higher education or further education institution, research and technology organisation (RTO) or Catapult
    • collaborate with a UK registered business, eligible public sector organisation, social enterprise, co-operative, charity or charitable business; with two or more full time employees

    The business must contribute to the project’s costs.

    Open now

    Opened:
    9 December 2024
    Closes:
    12 February 2025

  • Collaborative R&D: Creative Catalyst

    UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for projects that develop new innovative products and tools for the UK creative industry. This funding is part of Innovate UK’s Creative Catalyst.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to collaborations only.

    To lead a project your organisation must:

    • be a UK registered small or micro company
    • collaborate with other UK registered organisations
    • fall within one of the creative industries subsectors
    • involve at least one grant claiming business outside the Greater London area

    Closing soon

    Opened:
    9 December 2024
    Closes:
    29 January 2025

  • India - UK Collaborative R&D for industrial sustainability Rd 2

    UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million for innovative proposals developed with India. You must collaborate with at least one Indian business applying under the equivalent Technology Development Board programme.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to UK and Indian collaborations only.

    To lead a project your organisation must:

    • be a UK registered business of any size
    • be or involve at least one UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME)
    • collaborate with an Indian registered business, which must be a separate legal entity, not linked to the UK partners

    Open now

    Opened:
    25 November 2024
    Closes:
    12 February 2025

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