With a wide range of grant funding opportunities available to innovative SMEs in the UK, here’s our latest round up of the competitions currently open for entries. Click on any of the grant names to see full details on the government website.
We’ll continue to update this list throughout Quarter 2, 2023 and a new article will be published at the start of Quarter 3. This list was last updated on 26th June 2023.
Canada-UK: Biomanufacturing of Biologics and Advanced Therapies
- Total funding available: £3.5 million
- Opening date: Monday 26th June 2023
- Closing date: Tuesday 17th October 2023 at 5:00pm
Professional & Financial Services Data Access Innovation Lab: ESG
- Total funding available: £8 million
- Opening date: Monday 26th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 30th August 2023 at 11:00am
UK-South Korea Digital Health CRD
- Total funding available: £3 million
- Opening date: Monday 19th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 2nd August 2023 at 11:00am
Knowledge Asset Grant Fund: Explore, Autumn 2023
- Total funding available: £25,000
- Opening date: Friday 16th June 2023
- Closing date: Thursday 7th September 2023 at 11:00am
Innovate UK Smart grants: June 2023
- Total funding available: £25 million
- Opening date: Thursday 15th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 27th September 2023 at 11:00am
UK-Israel Eureka Bilateral Collaborative R&D: Round 2
- Total funding available: £2 million
- Opening date: Monday 5th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 13th September 2023 at 11:00am
Industrial Decarbonisation: Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Opening date: Monday 5th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 2nd August 2023 at 11:00am
Innovative technologies: Nucleic acid medicines manufacture Round 2
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Opening date: Monday 5th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 19th July 2023 at 11:00am
ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest June 2023
- Total funding available: £685 million
- Opening date: Monday 5th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 21st June 2023 11:00am
India – UK Collaborative R&D for Industrial Sustainability
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Opening date: Wednesday 31st May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 6th September 2023 at 11:00am
Design Foundations Round 2: Responsive
- Total funding available: £4 million
- Opening date: Wednesday 31st May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 26th July 2023 at 11:00am
Engineering Biology Collaborative R&D Round 2
- Total funding available: £6.7 million
- Opening date: Tuesday 30th May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 26th July 2023 at 11:00am
Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility: Mass Transit 2
- Total funding available: £900,000
- Opening date: Thursday 25th May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 19th July 2023 at 11:00am
Farming Futures: Environmental Resilience: Strand 1 – Feasibility / Strand 2 – Industrial Research
- Total funding available: £12.5 million
- Opening date: Monday 22nd May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 19th July 2023 at 12:00pm
APC – Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator 2 (ARMD2)
- Total funding available: £10 million
- Opening date: Wednesday 17th May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 28th June 2023 at 11:00am
Faraday Battery Challenge Round 6 Innovation CR&D
- Total funding available: £10 million
- Opening date: Tuesday 16th May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 12th July 2023 at 11:00am
Advancing precision medicine: Round 2
- Total funding available: £20 million
- Opening date: Monday 15th May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 28th June 2023 at 11:00am
Novel low-emission food production systems: Investor Partnership
- Total funding available: £3 million
- Opening date: Monday 8th May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 5th July 2023 at 11:00am
ATI Programme Strategic Batch: Expression of Interest May 2023
- Total funding available: £685 million
- Opening date: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 17th May 2023 at 11:00am
- Total funding available: £2 million
- Opening date:Monday 24th April 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 19th July 2023 at 11:00am
Net Zero Living Digital Accelerator Round 1
- Total funding available: £1.5 million
- Opening date: Monday 24th April 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 7th June 2023 at 11:00am
Analysis for Innovators (A4I) Round 10 – Stage 1
- Total funding available: £3 million
- Opening date: Monday 24th April 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 24th May 2023 at 11:00am
Net Zero Heat: Design Engineering Innovation Lab
- Total funding available: £8.5 million
- Opening date: Wednesday 19th April 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 31st May 2023 at 11:00am
UK – Switzerland Bilateral: Collaborative R&D
- Total funding available: £2 million
- Opening date: Monday 17th April 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 26th July 2023 at 12:00pm
Digital Dairy Chain: Collaborative R&D and Growth
- Total funding available: £2 million
- Opening date: Monday 17th April 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 31st May 2023 at 11:00am
Net Zero Hydrogen Fund: Strand 1 Development Expenditure Round 2
- Total funding available: £240 million
- Opening date: Tuesday 11th April 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 31st May 2023 at 11:00am
Net Zero Hydrogen Fund: Strand 2 Capital Expenditure Round 2
- Total funding available: £240m
- Opening date: Tuesday 11th April 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 7th June 2023 at 11:00am
Critical Materials for Magnets
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Opening date: Tuesday 11th April 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 21st June 2023 at 11:00am
Automotive Transformation Fund Scale up Readiness Validation 2
- Total funding available: £11 million
- Opening date: Monday 3rd April 2023
- Closing date: Thursday 11th May 2023 at 11:00am
Resource Efficiency for Materials and Manufacturing: CR&D
- Total funding available: £12 million
- Opening date: Friday 31st March 2023
- Closing date: Friday 26th May 2023 at 11:00am
Feasibility Studies for Artificial Intelligence Solutions
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Opening date: Tuesday 28th March 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 24th May 2023 at 11:00am
NATEP Helping SMEs Innovate in Aerospace: Spring 2023
- Total funding available: £2.5 million
- Opening date: Monday 27th March 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 10 May 2023 11:00am
V2X Innovation Programme: Bi-directional Charging Demonstrations
- Total funding available: £9.4 million
- Opening date: Tuesday 21st March 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 10th May 2023 at 11:00am
UK-South Korea Collaborative R&D Round 2
- Total funding available: £2 million
- Opening date: Monday 13th March 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 7th June 2023 at 11:00am
- Total funding available: £10 million
- Opening date: Monday 27th February 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 28th June 2023 at 12:00pm
Farming Innovation Programme – Large R&D Partnerships Round 2
- Total funding available: £8 million
- Opening date: Monday 20 February 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 19 April 2023 at 11:00am
Hydrogen Storage and Distribution Supply Chain Collaborative R&D
- Total funding available: £4.35 million
- Opening date: Monday 13th February 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 26th April 2023 at 11:00am
UK – Germany Bilateral: Collaborative R&D
- Total funding available: £4 million
- Opening date: Tuesday 7th February 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 7th June 2023 at 11:00am
UK – Singapore Collaborative R&D Round 2
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Opening date: Monday 6th February 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 3rd May 2023 at 11:00am
ZEVI: Battery Electric Vessels and Charging Infrastructure
- Total funding available: £77 million
- Opening date: Monday 6th February 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 19th April 2023 at 11:00am
Innovate UK Smart Grants: January 2023
- Total funding available: £25 million
- Opening date: Thursday 19th January 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 26th April 2023 at 11:00am
Novel, Low-emission Food Production Systems: Feasibility Studies
- Total funding available: £16 million
- Opening date: Wednesday 18th January 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 19th April 2023 at 11:00am
Canada UK Commercialising Quantum Technology Programme: CR&D
- Total funding available: £6 million
- Opening date: Monday 21st November 2022
- Closing date: Wednesday 19th April 2023 at 5:00pm
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