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Open to businesses across England or the UK, including North East Lincolnshire.

Closing soonGrantUK-wide

Frontier AI: SME Champions, Phase 1

Innovate UK

Feasibility study funding for UK registered SMEs developing frontier artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies with a clear route to defensible scale-up. Part of a three-phase pipeline.

Amount
£150,000 to £250,000
Deadline
Closes 11 November 2026 at 11am (10 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
Closing soonCompetitionUK-wide

HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Multi-Terrain Micro Robotic Systems

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.

Amount
Up to £60,000
Deadline
Closes 12 November 2026 at 5pm (11 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Closing soonCompetitionUK-wide

HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Smart glasses for mapping

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.

Amount
Up to £60,000
Deadline
Closes 12 November 2026 at 5pm (11 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Closing soonGrantUK-wide

National Space Innovation Programme - Call 3

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, UK Space Agency

The National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) provides co-funded grant support to derisk high-reward R&D projects with a clear target market.

Amount
£150,000 to £2,000,000
Deadline
Closes 12 November 2026 at midnight (11 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Opening soonGrantUK-wide

Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Strategic Programme

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

Funding for research and technology development to maintain and grow the UK’s competitive positions in civil aerospace.

Amount
Up to £18,000,000
Deadline
Closes 13 November 2026 (12 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenSupport programmeUK-wide

New Ventures in Creative Tech (Spark Incubation)

EIT Culture & Creativity

Funding of up to €30,000 and a 9-month training programme for early-stage founders with pre-incorporation business concepts in Materials and Built Environment (fashion and architecture). Includes an in-person Startup Sprint and an online Spark Incubation Programme.

Amount
Up to €30k per project (up to €30,000 in funding per selected venture)
Deadline
Closes 16 November 2026 at 5pm (15 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Manufacturing Digitalisation Innovation Programme: Innovation and Scale-up Hub

Innovate UK

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 (17 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Efficient, Structured and Controllable AI Systems

Innovate UK

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 (17 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenCompetitionUK-wide

N-CODE Innovation Challenge: the future of neurological healthcare

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.

Amount
Up to £12,000
Deadline
Closes 18 November 2026 at 5pm (17 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Investor Partnerships – Battery Innovation Programme

Innovate UK

A grant for UK registered SMEs with materials innovation projects that have investment traction from an approved investor partner, alongside aligned private investment. Part of the National Materials Innovation Programme.

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 (24 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Smart and Resilient Energy Systems

European 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 (26 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Road and Traffic Safety

ESA Business Applications, European Space Agency (ESA)

A BASS funding call for space-enabled solutions to improve traffic management, incident detection and predictive road safety.

Deadline
Closes 27 November 2026 (26 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Wildfires

ESA Business Applications

A non-competitive BASS call inviting proposals for space-enabled wildfire response and preparedness services.

Deadline
Closes 1 December 2026 (30 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Germany Bilateral Collaborative R&D: round 5

Innovate UK

UK SMEs can apply for grants to develop innovative proposals in collaboration with German SMEs, with a total fund of £2.4 million available.

Amount
£100,000 to £350,000
Deadline
Closes 1 December 2026 at 11am (30 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

ARIA: Standards and benchmarks for dexterous robotics

ARIA

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 (30 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenCompetitionUK-wide

iX Challenge: Smart control solutions for domestic hybrid heating systems

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.

Deadline
Closes 1 December 2026 at midnight (30 days)
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Growth Cohorts: Next-gen low carbon concrete cohort entry Round 2

Innovate UK

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
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantEngland-wide

Full ADOPT Grant: Round 10

Department 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
Area
EnglandLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation: CR&D Round 2

Innovate UK

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
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Engineering Biology Investor Partnerships Round 1

Innovate UK

UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £8 million to develop engineering biology products and services with selected investor partners.

Amount
£250,000 to £2,000,000
Deadline
Closes 2 December 2026 at 11am
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
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
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
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

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