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Open to businesses across England or the UK, including Cheshire West and Chester.

OpenGrantUK-wide

Battery Innovation: Feasibility Studies Rd 3

Innovate UK

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification. This funding is from The Battery Innovation Programme.

Amount
£70,000 to £500,000
Deadline
Closes 2 December 2026 at 11am (30 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Battery innovation: concept development round three

Innovate UK

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification. This funding is from The Battery Innovation Programme.

Amount
£500,000 to £4,000,000
Deadline
Closes 2 December 2026 at 11am (30 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

ARIA: TA1 Integrated Robot Bodies and TA2 Foundational Technologies – Concept papers

ARIA

ARIA funds teams to build robot bodies with new forms of locomotion, through TA1 integrated robot bodies and TA2 foundational technologies. Applicants are encouraged to submit concept papers before full proposals.

Amount
£1,000,000 to £15,000,000
Deadline
Closes 4 December 2026 at 2pm
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenCompetitionUK-wide

iX Challenge: Systemic capture and analysis of structural condition data

Innovate UK, Innovation Exchange

A Department for Education challenge seeking scalable, cost-effective digital tools and methods to capture structural condition data from school buildings immediately before demolition and analyse it for defect trends. The successful applicant(s) may be invited to pilot the methodology in up to 3 schools scheduled for demolition.

Deadline
Closes 4 December 2026 at 5pm
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst: AI for Assurance and Compliance

Innovate UK

Funds consortia to develop innovative AI deployment use cases for assurance and compliance systems, progressing towards full deployment and replication. Lead organisations must be businesses or other eligible UK organisations, with a deployer in a listed sector.

Amount
£100,000 to £200,000
Deadline
Closes 8 December 2026 at 11am
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst: AI for Decision Critical Systems

Innovate UK

Funds consortia to develop innovative AI deployment use cases in the Decision Critical Systems strand, progressing towards full deployment and replication. A UK deployer organisation in an eligible sector must be part of the consortium.

Amount
£100,000 to £200,000
Deadline
Closes 8 December 2026 at 11am
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst: AI for Operational Systems

Innovate UK

Funds consortia to develop innovative AI deployment use cases in the Operational Systems strand, progressing towards full deployment and replication. The deployer must operate in one of the listed sectors.

Amount
£100,000 to £200,000
Deadline
Closes 8 December 2026 at 11am
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Great British Energy (GBE) Supply Chain Fund: Offshore Wind and Networks

Great British Energy

Up to £300 million in capital grant funding to build UK manufacturing capacity for key constrained components in offshore wind and electricity networks sectors.

Amount
up to £300 million
Deadline
Closes 10 December 2026
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Unlocking Space for Business Grant Call: Environmental Intelligence and Emissions

UK Space Agency

A UK Space Agency grant call to fund innovative, near-to-market commercial solutions that use space-enabled technologies to improve the identification, monitoring, reporting and verification of emissions and environmental impacts for non-space UK businesses. Projects should involve an end-user business piloting a space-derived solution.

Amount
Up to £400,000
Deadline
Closes 11 December 2026 at 4pm
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Unlocking Space for Business Grant Call: Environmental Intelligence and Emissions

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, UK Space Agency

A UK Space Agency grant call for end-user businesses to lead consortium pilot projects using space-enabled data to address environmental intelligence or emissions monitoring challenges. Part of the Unlocking Space for Business programme.

Amount
£2,000,000 grant funding available (total funding envelope); no per-project amount stated in this part
Deadline
Closes 11 December 2026 at 4pm
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenCompetitionUK-wide

iX Challenge: Developing cost-effective polyols from UK waste-carbon for digital mass manufacturing

Innovate UK

Innovate UK's iX challenge set by Photocentric seeks innovators who can develop cost-effective polyols from UK waste-carbon sources for resins used in its JENI 3D printing system. Successful applicants work directly with Photocentric to evaluate, test and develop solutions.

Deadline
Closes 11 December 2026 at 5pm
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10
OpenOther

Strategic Air Transportable Isolator (ATI) Request for Information

UK Defence Innovation

A Request for Information on the Strategic Air Transportable Isolator (ATI), run by UK Defence Innovation as market engagement on behalf of the Ministry of Defence. It is published on 30 October 2026.

Deadline
Closes 14 December 2026 at 12 noonLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Funding to establish and lead an independent What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK, generating and synthesising evidence on the effectiveness of climate adaptation interventions. The project lead must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding, with at least one project co-lead from business, the third sector or government bodies.

Amount
Total funding of £21.1m available for a single project. Academic participants funded at 80% FEC. 100% of eligible costs funded for business co-leads and other participating organisations.
Deadline
Closes 15 December 2026 at 4pm
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

UK-Singapore CRD 2026

Innovate UK

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million for the purpose of developing innovative proposals with Singapore. You must collaborate with at least one Singapore business applying under the equivalent Enterprise Singapore programme.

Amount
£100,000 to £900,000
Deadline
Closes 16 December 2026 at 11am
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantNational

Transferable Audio-Visual Equipment on Rail Replacement Coaches

Department for Transport

Grant funding for coach operators to purchase transferable audio-visual equipment for rail replacement services to comply with accessible information regulations.

Amount
up to £2 million; reimbursing up to 75% of the cost of purchasing transferable audio-visual equipment
Deadline
Closes 18 December 2026 at 12 noon
Area
England, Scotland, WalesLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

UK Space Agency & Space Florida - Space Innovation Partnership

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, UK Space Agency

The goal of the Space Florida – UK Space Agency Space Innovation Partnership is to promote joint R&D collaboration amongst companies in the State of Florida and the United Kingdom.

Amount
Up to £75,000
Deadline
Closes 11 January 2027 at 3pm
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

EIT Health: Innovation Validation Call 2027

EIT Health

EIT Health funds up to 50% of the total project budget, up to €850,000 per project, for digital and AI-powered medical technologies ready for real-world clinical validation and approaching market launch. Consortia of at least two organisations from different countries are required, led by a commercialising company.

Amount
Up to €850,000 per project; EIT Health will fund up to 50% of the total project budget
Deadline
Closes 13 January 2027
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Underground hydrogen storage demonstrator DEVEX support

Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Grant-funded project development studies to help credible underground hydrogen storage demonstrator projects move from early stage (FEL-1 or -2) towards investment readiness and final investment decision. Open to enterprises under the Research, Development and Innovation Streamlined Subsidy Scheme.

Amount
£200,000 to £750,000
Deadline
Closes 13 January 2027 at 11am
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Testing and validating underground hydrogen storage components

Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

A collaborative research and development programme to accelerate the development and validation of technologies for the safe, reliable and cost effective use of underground hydrogen storage. Run by UKRI for consortia led by UK registered organisations.

Amount
£2,500,000 to £3,000,000
Deadline
Closes 13 January 2027 at 11am
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

EIT Higher Education Initiative Call for Proposals 2026

EIT, EIT Higher Education Initiative

Funding for consortia led by higher education institutions to strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship capacity, focusing on manufacturing and deep tech. Projects run 18 months and must include at least two business or industry partners.

Amount
Up to €1.25 million per project over 18 months, with a total budget of €40 million. Up to 100% of costs may be covered; co-funding is encouraged but not required.
Deadline
Closes 13 January 2027 at 3pm
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Eureka collaborative R&D: Globalstars Japan 2027

Innovate UK

Grants for UK businesses in business-led collaborative industrial research projects with partners from Japan and other participating Eureka countries, in areas such as semiconductors, quantum, AI and space.

Amount
Up to £600,000
Deadline
Closes 20 January 2027 at 11am
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

ESERO-UK

UK Space Agency, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

A UK-wide space education and engagement programme using space as a context to support young people aged 4–19 with STEM learning and space careers. The UK Space Agency is seeking a consortium to deliver it.

Amount
The UK Space Agency intends to award up to £4.5 million over financial years 2027/28 to 2029/30; ESA expects to provide up to €750,000 (approximately £638,700), subject to separate contract negotiations. Total co-funding envelope approximately £5,138,700.
Deadline
Closes 23 January 2027 at midnight
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 - 2027 Round 4

Innovate UK

A Knowledge Transfer Partnership project in which a business partner works with a knowledge base on a specific strategic innovation project, supported by an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Adviser. Grant contributions cover part of eligible project costs.

Amount
Innovate UK has committed a budget of £12.5 million for this round. Large companies may receive a grant contribution of up to 50% of eligible project costs; SMEs up to 67%.
Deadline
Closes 27 January 2027 at 11am
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Opening soonGrantUK-wide

Healthy Soils and Water for a Sustainable Environment

Innovate UK

A competition offering a share of up to £28 million for soil, water and environmental management projects. It is run by Innovate UK and co-funded by Defra, and is open to collaborations only.

Amount
Share of up to £28 million (total fund)
Deadline
Closes 28 January 2027 at 11am
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10

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