Open to businesses in York and North Yorkshire, including schemes for the wider region and the whole country.
HBXL
Flexible training programme of up to 16 weeks to build CAD for construction skills, delivered by HBXL. Open to adults aged 19 and over; fully funded for independent learners and self-employed, 90% funded for small and medium-sized businesses, 70% funded for large businesses.
Enterprise Made Simple
Flexible training programme of up to 16 weeks to build Level 4 advanced digital marketing skills, delivered by Enterprise Made Simple. Open to adults aged 19 and over; fully funded for independent learners and self-employed, 90% funded for small and medium-sized businesses, 70% funded for large businesses.
Primed Talent
A 10-week skills bootcamp from Primed Talent, four days a week and mostly online, on using AI in business: business analysis, data, process improvement and automation. Fully funded for independent learners and the self-employed; employers putting their own staff on it pay 10% (small and medium-sized businesses) or 30% (large businesses).
Primed Talent
Flexible training programme of up to 16 weeks to build cyber security technician skills, delivered by Primed Talent. Open to adults aged 19 and over; fully funded for independent learners and self-employed, 90% funded for small and medium-sized businesses, 70% funded for large businesses.
Primed Talent
Flexible training programme of up to 16 weeks to build software development technician skills, delivered by Primed Talent. Open to adults aged 19 and over; fully funded for independent learners and self-employed, 90% funded for small and medium-sized businesses, 70% funded for large businesses.
The Growth Company
Funded student or recent graduate internships to support a business's digitalisation journey.
Cyber Resilience Centre for the North East
Police-led centre that helps small and medium-sized businesses, charities and public sector organisations in North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber improve their cyber security, with fully funded training and Cyber PATH services for subscribers.
Made Smarter
A fully funded eight-week course for managers who run digital projects in Yorkshire-based SMEs, covering leadership skills, Industry 4.0 technologies and a business implementation plan.
Made Smarter
Funded internships for 2nd, 3rd and 4th year undergraduates and postgraduate students to work in manufacturing SMEs on digital transformation projects for up to 12 weeks.
Made Smarter
A fully funded nine-week course for senior and emerging leaders in Yorkshire-based SMEs who want to drive digital change. Participants attend all sessions and complete a project to shape their firm's growth plan.
Made Smarter
Help for small and medium manufacturers in Yorkshire and the Humber to adopt digital technology: a free assessment and digital roadmap, intensive technical support from consultants with up to 50% match funding, and digital technology grants of up to £20,000 (50% match funded). Grants are paid after you spend.
Made Smarter, Made Smarter Yorkshire
Fully funded cyber security training for manufacturers in Yorkshire and the Humber, delivered with Sheffield Hallam University across four levels from awareness to ISO 27001 certification.
Open to businesses across England or the UK, including York and North Yorkshire.
ESA Business Applications
A BASS contest connecting companies developing space-enabled services with leading industry challenge owners.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.