Smart Grants September 2023
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.
Proposals must be business focused, with deliverable, realistic, adequately resourced plans to achieve return on investment, growth and market share following project completion.
Applications can come from any area of technology and be applied to any part of the economy.
Competition closes on Wednesday 17 January 2024.
For further information please visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/smart-grants-september-2023/
Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP) 2023 to 2024 Round 6
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.
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme allows a UK registered business or not for profit organisation, (which we will refer to collectively as the ‘business partner’ from now on) to partner with a ‘knowledge base partner’ (either a UK higher education (HE) or further education (FE) institution, research and technology organisation (RTO) or Catapult).
The KTP partnership brings new skills and the latest academic thinking into the business partner to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project. The knowledge base partner recruits the ‘associate’ to work on the project. The associate has the opportunity to lead a strategic development within the business developing new skills and gaining valuable experience.
Each KTP is a partnership between the following:
- a UK knowledge base, acting as lead organisation and submitting the application
- a UK registered business, not for profit organisation or eligible public sector organisation
Competition closes on Wednesday 31 January 2024
https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/opportunities/knowledge-transfer-partnerships-ktp-2023-to-2024-round-6/
UK registered micro or small businesses in the creative industries sector can apply for funding of up to £50,000 with a package of tailored support to grow their business. This fully funded grant programme is from Innovate UK.
The aim of this competition is to support the growth of untapped innovative businesses and to increase investment in creative talent.
Your proposal must:
- have an innovation that clearly demonstrates benefit to the creative industries sector and the wider UK economy
- focus on a clear opportunity and the proposed innovation which addresses it
- demonstrate the impact funding and support can have to the growth plan of your business within the next 12 months
Competition opens: on Tuesday 23 January 2024 and closes on Wednesday 6 March 2024.
For further information please visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/creative-catalyst-2024/?utm_campaign=04_01_24_Jan_funding_round_up&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
Environmental Monitoring Innovation
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for collaborative projects to develop innovative solutions in environmental monitoring. This funding is from Innovate UK and The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).
The aim of this competition is to fund collaborative projects that develop environmental monitoring solutions to enable improved monitoring of environmental variables.
Projects will require:
- support the development of new sensing systems and monitoring capabilities that will either improve existing approaches or introduce new ones
- support the testing of these products, including ‘ground-truthing’ with existing monitoring regimes, verifying their accuracy and reliability, and potential for deployment at scale
- help the UK environmental monitoring sector in anticipating and responding to growing markets for environmental sensing, delivering economic growth to the UK
- deliver new and strengthened partnerships between academia, public and private sectors, and across disciplines, stimulating innovative approaches
Your project must focus on one or more of the following challenge areas:
biodiversity and natural capital
- soil health (including measuring soil carbon)
- water quality
- greenhouse gas (GHG) and ammonia emissions from Defra sectors
Competition opens on Monday 22 January 2024 and closes Wednesday 6 March 2024.
For further information please visit
Eureka collaborative R&D: Eurostars 3 Call 6
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for collaborative research in partnership with organisations from participating Eurostars countries.
The aim of this competition is for international collaboration on R&D projects that create innovative products, processes or services for commercialisation.
This competition is open in theme and we will fund projects from all sectors, which meet eligibility criteria.
Your project must have high market potential and develop one or more of the following:
- innovative products
- technology-based applications
- technology-based services
Registration closes on Thursday 14 March 2024
For further information please visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/eureka-collaborative-rd-eurostars-3-call-6/
UKBIC SME Credit Round 2 – processing for electrode and cells
UK registered micro, small and medium enterprise, can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million to increase and facilitate their engagement with the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC). This funding is from Faraday Battery Challenge.
The aim of this competition is to:
- support a micro, small or medium-sized enterprise’s (SME) research and development for the scale-up of battery technologies within the UK
- support an SME to access the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) and demonstrate technologies at suitable scales to customers
- increase engagement with UKBIC
- move UK battery innovations from technological potential towards commercial capability
- develop and secure material and manufacturing supply chains for battery technologies in the UK
Competition closes on Wednesday 6 March 2024.
For further information please visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukbic-sme-credit-round-2-processing-for-electrode-and-cells/
Organisations can apply for a share of £3 million, inclusive of VAT, in developing solutions to accelerate decarbonising concrete.
The aim of this research, development and demonstration competition is to make the commercial adoption of lower carbon concrete happen faster. The results will enable engagement between innovation projects and end users.
The purpose of this competition is to:
- demonstrate market demand
- commercially de-risk innovations
- encourage investment
- accelerate adoption
Competition closes on Monday 4 March 2024.
For further information please visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/small-business-research-initiative-decarbonising-concrete/