Open to businesses in Northumberland, including schemes for the wider region and the whole country.
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Open to businesses across England or the UK, including Northumberland.
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.
Innovate UK
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.
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.
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.
ESA Business Applications
A non-competitive BASS call inviting proposals for space-enabled wildfire response and preparedness services.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.