Transport Research and Innovation Grants (TRIG)
Transport Research and Innovation Grants (TRIG) are fully funded grants for innovative ideas that improve the transport system, open to small businesses, universities and large businesses across the United Kingdom. This scheme has closed.
Run by Department for Transport
Last read from cp.catapult.org.uk on 28 Oct 2026.
This scheme has closed
It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.
Fully funded proof-of-concept grants for innovative ideas that improve the transport system, typically taking an idea from TRL 2 to TRL 4. Open to SMEs, universities and large businesses with a UK registered office.
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Where it is open: UK-wide
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Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.
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Source and last checked
Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Last read from cp.catapult.org.uk on 28 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 28 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Department for Transport before you apply.
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- cp.catapult.org.uk/transport-research-and-innovation-grants/via National schemes' own pages (from the 14 Oct comparison), read 28 Oct 2026