Funding Opportunities
Positive change is driven through new ideas and innovation. But innovation is complex. Sometimes projects need to be connected with new opportunities or looked at from new perspectives to make the difference. This is where Innovate UK KTN comes in.
If you’re looking for experienced input into your idea, product, service, research or challenge, then invite us to get involved. We will not only work with you in understanding your market or challenge but will also direct you to the latest funding opportunities available, and how you can apply.
Find out how Innovate UK KTN can support your funding application or help you find partners.
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Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 27
Opens 24/10/2022
Closes: 16/11/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital centric investment projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.
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iX challenge: Assessing the Condition of Pipe and Substrate under Composite Wraps
Opens 24/10/2022
Closes: 25/11/2022
The KTN Innovation Exchange (iX) is supporting Sellafield to identify innovative solutions to assess the condition of pipes and substrate underneath composite wraps. The winning business(es) in this competition will be given an opportunity to present their solutions to Sellafield, with the potential of a commercial opportunity.
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Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility: Supply Chain
Opens 21/10/2022
Closes: 11/01/2023
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £16 million for projects to develop technologies and capabilities in the Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) supply chain.
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Global Centre of Rail Excellence: railway construction innovation
Opens 21/10/2022
Closes: 14/12/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £575,000 for feasibility studies with projects to propose, deliver and demonstrate Innovation in Railway Construction. Funding is from the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy.
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DASA competition: Novel Amphibious Craft
Opens 24/10/2022
Closes: 10/01/2023
DASA’s new Themed Competition seeks innovations to help develop a novel craft to enable Commando Forces to safely and rapidly insert themselves into high-threat environments.
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iX challenge: Magnetic Measurements for a Fusion Power Plant
Opens 17/10/2022
Closes: 15/11/2022
UKAEA is searching for innovators who have expertise in magnetic measurement systems that can operate in harsh environments in a fusion reactor, accelerating the development of a prototype fusion reactor plant and the UK’s transition to net zero. Through its STEP Launch Pad, UKAEA is looking to make strategic investments in technologies that can address this challenge and widen its supply chain.
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ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest October 2022
Opens 17/10/2022
Closes: 02/11/2022
The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.
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Partner selection for future Launchpads
Opens 10/10/2022
Closes: 07/11/2022
Local leadership can apply to partner with Innovate UK to design a future Launchpad. You must evidence a business innovation cluster suited to a Launchpad.
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Zero Emission Propulsion CR&D
Opens 17/10/2022
Closes: 07/12/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million for net zero propulsion innovative projects, covering maritime, rail, automotive or aerospace. This funding is from Innovate UK.
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Made Smarter Innovation: manufacturing sustainability accelerator
Opens 10/10/2022
Closes: 23/11/2022
UK research organisations can apply for up to £2 million for delivery of an artificial intelligence focused manufacturing sustainability accelerator.
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Net zero living: Pioneer places
Opens 26/10/2022
Closes: 30/11/2022
UK registered businesses and local authorities can apply for a share of up to £2 million to plan for a place based demonstration of ways to accelerate progress towards net zero.
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Hydrogen Transport Hub Demonstration, Tees Valley
Opens 06/10/2022
Closes: 30/11/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million to demonstrate how hydrogen can be used to power transport solutions for end users.
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SBRI: The Sustainable Production & Supply of Food Challenge, Cardiff
Opens 30/09/2022
Closes: 02/12/2022
Cardiff Council in collaboration with Monmouthshire County Council are seeking to identify and support projects to develop innovative solutions which can significantly improve the sustainable production and supply of food. The Challenge looks for applicants to harness the potential of land, technology and people to increase the sustainable production and supply of locally grown food in the Cardiff Capital Region.
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Launchpad Cluster Management: Tees Valley and Liverpool
Opens 04/10/2022
Closes: 28/10/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for up to £150,000 each for two separate projects to develop and manage the emergent innovation clusters in Tees Valley (Net Zero) and Liverpool (Advanced Manufacturing).
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BSGN Advanced Materials Accelerator: Call for Proposals
Opens 04/10/2022
Closes: 30/11/2022
Innovators and enterprises are invited to submit project proposals for demonstrating space-based advanced materials research, manufacturing, and associated technologies. BSGN is carried out under a programme of and funded by ESA, the European Space Agency.
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Future Economy Investor Partnerships: Investor Selection 2022
Opens 04/10/2022
Closes: 02/11/2022
Investors can apply to partner with Innovate UK to invest in innovative SMEs aligned with grant funding. This competition does not provide funding to the applicant investor: it is an investment opportunity. Grant funding will be provided to the SMEs which receive investment.
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iX Challenge: Secure and Discreet International Communications
Opens 03/10/2022
Closes: 28/10/2022
The focus of this Challenge is to collaboratively work with the UK government, to develop a concept demonstrator showing the technical feasibility of a solution capable of easily, securely and discreetly communicating internationally between UK-based government representatives and their colleagues abroad, particularly in environments that are poorly serviced, remote, or in areas with little or no infrastructure.
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iX Challenge: Condition monitoring of electro-mechanical assets for water treatment and distribution
Opens 03/10/2022
Closes: 14/11/2022
The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Spring, the water sector’s innovation centre of excellence, to engage innovators to solve the challenge of monitoring the health of electro-mechanical assets associated with the treatment and distribution of water and predicting faults due to rapidly changing environments and unpredicted events (systemic shocks).
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Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 26
Opens 26/09/2022
Closes: 19/10/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital centric investment projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.
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Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 3
Opens 29/09/2022
Closes: 09/11/2022
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with The Department for Transport (DfT) to invest up to £60 million in innovation projects. These will be to develop and deploy real world operational demonstrations of clean maritime solutions.
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GA-iX challenge: Battery Inventory System – Track, Trace and Report on Lithium Ion Batteries
Opens 29/09/2022
Closes: 11/11/2022
This Innovation Exchange challenge, delivered by Innovate UK KTN through the Global Alliance Africa project, is supporting Hinckley Group to identify innovative solutions for a tracking system for individual batteries, enabling circular usage.