If you’re looking for grant funding for your company’s innovation projects, below is a round-up of all the main UK competitions currently open for entries. The list is ordered by closing date with the soonest closing first. It will be updated on a weekly basis as new competitions are announced until the end of 2022. A new list will be published at the beginning of each quarter in the new year. The most recently closed competitions remain at the top of the list for information only. If you have missed out on a relevant competition this year, keep checking next year as many competitions are repeated.
Competitions Closing in November 2022:
ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest October 2022
- Total funding available: £685 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 2nd November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Launchpad – Advanced Manufacturing (Liverpool City)
- Total funding available: £6 million
- Closing date: Friday 4th November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Launchpad – Net zero (Tees valley)
- Total funding available: £6 million
- Closing date: Friday 4th November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Partner selection for future Launchpads
- Total funding available: £7.5 million
- Closing date: Monday 7th November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Innovation in Professional and Financial Services: Collaboration | Single Applicants
- Total funding available: £7 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 9th November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
SSPP Future Plastic Packaging Solutions Round 2
- Total funding available: £2.5 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 9th November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Inclusive Innovation Award 2022 to 2023
- Total funding available: £2.5 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 9th November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
CMDC Round 3 – Vessel or Infrastructure Demonstrations
- Total funding available: £60 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 9th November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 27
- Total funding available: £1 billion
- Closing date: Wednesday 16 November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Made Smarter Innovation: manufacturing sustainability accelerator
- Total funding available: £2 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 23rd November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Hydrogen Transport Hub Demonstration Phase 2 – Strand 1
- Total funding available: £20 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 30th November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest November 2022
- Total funding available: £685 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 30th November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Net zero living: Pioneer places
- Total funding available: £2 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 30th November 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Competitions Closing in December 2022:
PEMD Scale-up: Strand 1, adopting manufacturing best practice | Strand 2, manufacturing process development
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 7 December 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Circular Economy for SMEs – innovating with NICER, round 2
- Total funding available: £1.5 billion
- Closing date: Wednesday 7th December 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
- Total funding available: £10 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 7 December 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Global Centre of Rail Excellence: railway construction innovation
- Total funding available: £575,000
- Closing date: Wednesday 14th December 2022 12:00pm
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Automotive Transformation Fund Expression of Interest: Round 28
- Total funding available: £1 billion
- Closing date: Wednesday 14th December 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Knowledge Asset Grant Fund: Expand
- Total funding available: £2.9 million
- Closing date: Thursday 15th December 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Digitalisation and Automation of Medicines R&D and Manufacture
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 21st December 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Innovative technologies for nucleic acid medicines manufacturing
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 21st December 2022 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Competitions Closing in 2023:
Analysis for Innovators (A4I) Round 9 – Stage 1
- Total funding available: £3 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 4th January 2023 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility: Supply Chain
- Total funding available: £16 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 11th January 2023 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
NATEP Helping SMEs innovate in aerospace: Autumn 2022
- Total funding available: £2.5 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 11th January 2023 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
UKRI Circular fashion programme: recycling and sorting demonstrator
- Total funding available: £4 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 11 January 2023 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2022
- Total funding available: £25 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 18th January 2023 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Accelerating trustworthy AI: Phase 1 feasibility study
- Total funding: £2 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 25th January 2023 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Sustainable bio-based materials and manufacture: feasibility study
- Total funding available: £2 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 1st February 2023 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
DCMS Create Growth Fund: Competition 1
- Total funding available: £10,000 – £30,000
- Closing date: Wednesday 8th February 2023 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
- Total funding available: £50,000
- Closing date: Wednesday 15th February 2023 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Farming Futures: automation and robotics, experimental development
- Total funding: £12.5 million
- Opening date: Monday 9th January 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 15th March 2023 at 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Canada UK Commercialising Quantum Technology Programme: CR&D
- Total funding available: £6 million
- Closing date: Wednesday 19th April 2023 11:00am
- THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
You can also view all these latest innovation grant funding competitions here on the government website where they are listed in order of most recently opened.
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