Open to businesses in Hartlepool, including schemes for the wider region and the whole country.
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Nothing just for Hartlepool matches yet. These are open more widely, and you can still apply from Hartlepool.
North East Better Health at Work Award
A free, flexible award that recognises employers in the North East and Cumbria for addressing health issues in the workplace. Each employer who signs up is supported by a dedicated Workplace Health Improvement Specialist.
Open to businesses across England or the UK, including Hartlepool.
ESA Business Applications
A BASS contest connecting companies developing space-enabled services with leading industry challenge owners.
HMGCC, HMGCC Co-Creation
Develop discreet, wearable stab-resistant body armour specifically designed for women, to a minimum technology readiness level 5. Funding available for time, materials, overheads and indirect expenses.
Beyond Blood Diagnostics, Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovate UK
Beyond Blood Diagnostics seeks solutions to reduce particle loss and positional variability in its microfluidic blood analysis cartridges. The winning applicant can apply for up to £60,000 for a 3 month project.
Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect
A challenge seeking an Android-based, scalable capability to detect, geolocate and map radio-frequency interference affecting PNT services such as GPS jamming, in near real time. Open to established businesses, start-ups, SMEs and individual entrepreneurs that are UK based or intend to set up a UK base.
Innovation Exchange programme, Innovate UK, Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect
A challenge to develop a modern replacement electronics platform for the GeoSwath bathymetric sonar system, with a grant of up to £60K for a 3-month project. Open to established businesses, academic institutions, start-ups, SMEs and individual entrepreneurs that are UK based or intend to set up a UK base.
iX programme, Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovation Exchange
A challenge set by Ethicronics Ltd seeking solution providers to develop a reusable test capability for physical tamper protection of electronic assets in transit and storage. Open to established businesses, start-ups, SMEs and individual entrepreneurs that are UK based or intend to set up a UK base.
iX programme, Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect
A competition to find innovators who can build a configurable industrial software solution for MBSE simulation within openSPDM. Winners get a chance to pitch and then apply for a grant of up to £60,000 for a 3 month project.
iX programme, Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovate UK
A competition for solution providers to capture and verify social value delivery across defence supply chains, with up to £60,000 grant for a 3 month project. Open to businesses including SMEs and start-ups.
Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect, VSS
VSS is seeking open-innovation solutions to extend blast mitigation protection for personnel in armoured vehicles under drone attack. The winning applicant, selected by VSS, can apply for grant funding for a 3-month project.
iX programme, Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovate UK
Tekh is seeking a hardware development partner to design and prototype a series of low SWaP-C computing boards for Edge AI inference. Open to established businesses, academic institutions, start-ups, SMEs and individual entrepreneurs that are UK based or intend to set up a UK base.
Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect
An Innovate UK Innovation Exchange challenge set by Advanced Integrated Technologies Ltd (AiT) seeking resilient communications, navigation and mission-connectivity technologies for a persistent high-altitude autonomous aircraft. Selected solution providers may be invited to apply for a grant of up to £60,000.
Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovate UK
A challenge seeking a secure, cost-effective way to use cloud-based AI, engineering and manufacturing tools with sensitive customer and defence data. Open to established businesses, academic institutions, start-ups, SMEs and individual entrepreneurs.
UK Defence Innovation
A two-stage competition to develop Army tactical power solutions at TRL 4 to TRL 6, plus a market engagement strand (Immediate Power Problem) for technology at TRL 6 or above that can be commercialised within 12 months.
UK Defence Innovation
A UK Defence Innovation challenge seeking proposals that will help the Army meet future electricity demand, run in partnership with Australia's ASCA. Two opportunities sit within it: Innovative Tactical Power Solutions (a two-stage competition, development from TRL 4 to TRL 6) and Immediate Power Problem (a market engagement activity).
HMGCC Co-Creation
A 12-week funded challenge seeking proof-of-concept demonstrations of a small uncrewed robotic system that can move across water, land and air. Open to sole innovators, industry, and academic and research organisations of all types and sizes.
HMGCC Co-Creation
A 12-week funded challenge to develop an edge device that processes video and audio from off-the-shelf smart glasses to create high fidelity 3D maps. Open to sole innovators, industry, and academic and research organisations of all sizes.
Simply Business
A competition run by Simply Business to win £10,000 of funding, with one-to-one business coaching from Hatch Enterprise, for five business owners aged over 40.
Challenge seeking ideas that could change how neurological care is delivered in the NHS, with an award of up to £12,000 for UK-registered businesses.
SeedLegals
A national pitching competition where founders submit a 90 second pitch video to join regional finals, with one winner per regional event going to the London Grand Final. Open to founders with a business idea and proof of traction.
Innovate UK
Cadent and Innovate UK seek smart control solutions that help domestic hybrid heating systems choose the most efficient and cost-effective heating source. Successful applicants are invited to pitch to Cadent.
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.
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.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
An award recognising outstanding achievement by UK businesses in young founder, innovation, international trade, sustainability and promoting opportunity through social mobility. Award-winners are valid for 5 years.