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18 competitions

  • Farming Innovation Programme: Feasibility Round 5

    UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £15 million for feasibility projects. This funding is from the industry led R&D Partnerships Fund, part of the Farming Innovation Programme.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to collaborations only.
    To lead a collaborative project your organisation must:
    • be a UK registered business of any size, including sole traders and partnerships
    • collaborate with other UK organisations

    Open now

    Opened:
    15 July 2026
    Closes:
    9 September 2026

  • Advanced Connectivity Technologies: New Innovators

    UK registered micro and small businesses can apply for a share of up to £500,000 to develop affordable, adoptable and investable innovations in Advanced Connectivity Technologies. This funding is from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to single applicants only.

    To lead a project your organisation must be a UK registered micro or small business.

    Open now

    Opened:
    7 July 2026
    Closes:
    5 August 2026

  • ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 10

    Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a grant of £2,500, to engage an external Project Facilitator to support the development of a Full ADOPT Grant application.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to single applicants only.
    To apply for this grant your organisation must:
    • be an active farming, growing or forestry business of any size based in England
    • be able to evidence that you are an established business, including sole traders and partnerships
    • have a UK bank account

    Open now

    Opened:
    2 July 2026
    Closes:
    12 August 2026

  • UK-Switzerland CR&D Round 3

    UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million for innovative projects in specific technology areas. You must collaborate with at least one Swiss implementation partner applying under the equivalent Swiss Innosuisse programme.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to UK and Swiss collaborations only.

    To lead a project your organisation must be a UK registered:

    • business of any size
    • must be or involve at least one grant claiming UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME)
    • collaborate with a Swiss implementation partner and at least one research institute

    Open now

    Opened:
    1 July 2026
    Closes:
    3 September 2026

  • Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D

    UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £33 million to develop device level hardware and associated software to meet the scale, programmability, and runtime performance needs of universal fault tolerant quantum computers.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to collaborations only. To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size or a research and technology organisation (RTO).

    Open now

    Opened:
    27 June 2026
    Closes:
    18 September 2026

  • DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Collaborate 3

    UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £20 million for late stage collaborative research and development projects. Projects will support the UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles and a pathway to a net zero automotive industry.

    Eligibility

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

    Open now

    Opened:
    26 June 2026
    Closes:
    16 September 2026

  • Next Wave: Breakthrough Wave 1

    UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million for industrial research projects to explore industrial strategy aligned Createch innovation. This funding is from Innovate UK.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to single applicants or collaborations.

    To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) claiming grant funding on this application.

    To work alone your organisation must be a UK registered SME.

    Open now

    Opened:
    23 June 2026
    Closes:
    11 August 2026

  • CfI: Earlier identification of UK children with SEN

    Organisations can apply for a share of £2.5m inclusive of VAT to develop innovations that enable earlier, fairer, more reliable identification of special educational needs (SEN) in contexts where existing market solutions underperform or do not operate.

    Eligibility

    To lead a project, you can:

    • be an organisation of any size, including those based in the EU, EEA or internationally
    • work alone or with other organisations as subcontractors

    Contracts will be awarded to a single legal entity only.

    Open now

    Opened:
    23 June 2026
    Closes:
    5 August 2026

  • Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 11, business and non-academic

    UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £110 million to deliver ambitious research and innovation and develop future leaders. This funding is from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to single applicants with supporting organisations.

    To host a Future Leaders Fellowship your UK-registered organisation must be a:

    • business of any size
    • charity
    • catapult
    • public body
    • agri-tech centre
    • eligible research organisation

    Open now

    Opened:
    22 June 2026
    Closes:
    4 November 2026

  • DRIVE35: Scale Up Fund

    UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million, to create scale up manufacturing facilities for zero emission vehicle technologies.

    Eligibility

    This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations.

    To lead a project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.

    Non-UK registered businesses may apply but must set up a UK registered business before any grant can be awarded. The UK registered business must deliver your project. You will not be able to start your project until the business is set up with UK staff in place.

    Open now

    Opened:
    17 June 2026
    Closes:
    No submission deadline

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