Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, UK Government
Capital grants of 10-20% of project costs for UK businesses investing in life sciences manufacturing of human medicines, medical diagnostics and MedTech products.
Amount
between 10 and 20% of project costs
Deadline
Closes 13 November 2026 at 12 noon (11 days)
Area
United KingdomRating 9/10Local Landscape rating 9 out of 10
UK registered research and technology organisations or academic institutions can apply for up to £4 million to establish a hub improving the targeting and commercial impact of grant-funded manufacturing digitalisation activity.
Amount
From £3,800,000
Deadline
Closes 18 November 2026 at 11am (16 days)
Area
United KingdomRating 8/10Local Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Funding for UK SMEs to experimentally validate prototype novel reusable AI mechanisms for efficient, structured and controllable AI systems. Projects must start at TRL 1, 2 or 3.
Amount
£50,000 to £150,000
Deadline
Closes 18 November 2026 at 11am (16 days)
Area
United KingdomRating 10/10Local Landscape rating 10 out of 10
Grant funding for UK registered SMEs to carry out research and development on material innovations, alongside private investment from selected investor partners. Up to £5 million is allocated to fund projects in this competition, subject to enough high quality applications.
Amount
Up to £5 million allocated to fund innovation projects in this competition. Project total costs: £50,000 to £300,000 for feasibility studies, £100,000 to £1 million for industrial research, £250,000 to £2 million for experimental development.
Deadline
Closes 25 November 2026 at 11am (23 days)
Area
United KingdomRating 10/10Local Landscape rating 10 out of 10
EEuropean Space Agency (ESA), ESA Business Applications
A non-competitive BASS call for operational solutions using space-enabled technologies to improve the resilience of electricity grids.
Amount
Up to 50% of activity costs can usually be funded for UK applicants. Proof-of-concept studies up to €600,000 max cost per project: case-by-case assessment for pilot projects.
Deadline
Closes 27 November 2026 (25 days)
Area
United KingdomRating 9/10Local Landscape rating 9 out of 10
DDepartment for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
From 2027, cuts electricity costs by up to £40 per megawatt hour for eligible manufacturers in Great Britain, by exempting their sites from the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation, Feed-in Tariffs and Capacity Market.
Amount
Up to £40 per megawatt hour off electricity costs, from 2027
Deadline
Closes 30 November 2026 (28 days)
Area
England, Scotland, WalesRating 9/10Local Landscape rating 9 out of 10
ARIA seeks proposals for shared benchmarks, standards, interfaces or other capabilities that remove a clearly defined barrier affecting multiple developers or users of dexterous robotic systems. Up to four awards, with up to £3 million per project over up to 24 months.
Amount
Up to £3,000,000
Deadline
Closes 1 December 2026 at 1pm (29 days)
Area
United KingdomRating 8/10Local Landscape rating 8 out of 10
A Horizon Europe-funded open call for SMEs to scale and expand successful urban mobility solutions into new markets, supported by an end client. Each awarded SME receives a fixed lump sum grant.
Amount
Total estimated funding €600,000; around 10 projects; each awarded entity receives a fixed lump sum grant of EUR 60,000
Deadline
Closes 1 December 2026 at 4pm (29 days)
Area
United KingdomRating 8/10Local Landscape rating 8 out of 10
A Innovate UK competition to join a cohort of ambitious businesses that will develop solutions to decarbonise concrete and access funding and sector specific support for innovation and growth plans.
Amount
Up to £54,400
Deadline
Closes 2 December 2026 at 11am (30 days)
Area
United KingdomRating 9/10Local Landscape rating 9 out of 10
DDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Innovate UK
Grant for on-farm trial and demonstration projects to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector. Open to farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England that lead collaborative projects.
Amount
£50,000 to £200,000
Deadline
Closes 2 December 2026 at 11am (30 days)
Area
EnglandRating 9/10Local Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Innovate UK grant, with the Department of Health and Social Care, to support development and adoption of sustainable technologies for manufacturing medicines. Open to collaborations; the consortium must include at least one UK micro, small or medium enterprise claiming grant funding.
Amount
£500,000 to £1,000,000
Deadline
Closes 2 December 2026 at 11am (30 days)
Area
United KingdomRating 9/10Local Landscape rating 9 out of 10
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 KingdomRating 9/10Local Landscape rating 9 out of 10
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 KingdomRating 10/10Local Landscape rating 10 out of 10
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 KingdomRating 8/10Local Landscape rating 8 out of 10
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 KingdomRating 10/10Local Landscape rating 10 out of 10
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 KingdomRating 10/10Local Landscape rating 10 out of 10
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 KingdomRating 10/10Local Landscape rating 10 out of 10
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 KingdomRating 8/10Local Landscape rating 8 out of 10
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 KingdomRating 8/10Local Landscape rating 8 out of 10