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NHS fit for the future dementia challenge

Submit an application if you have a clinical intervention or technological innovation that will:

  • shorten the time it takes to diagnosis dementia
  • enhance early detection of clinical change following diagnosis
  • be deployed in the NHS from 2029

Healthcare professionals, businesses and researchers can take part.

Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
UK Research and Innovation, Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Other
Publication date:
22 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Innovate UK Venture Builder Pilot Expression of Interest

Innovate UK is funding up to £150,000 for a pilot Innovate UK Venture Builder Programme to support new deep-tech spin-outs and to help them in raising their first significant investment. This is the Expression of Interest stage of the competition.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£3,750,000
Maximum award:
£150,000
Publication date:
22 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Advanced manufacturing supply chain innovation: CRD

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6.5 million for collaborative industrial research to make supply chains more productive, resource efficient and resilient.

Opportunity status:
Upcoming
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£6,500,000
Publication date:
21 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Battery innovation feasibility studies round two

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million for innovation in battery technologies for electrification. This funding is from the battery innovation programme.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Battery Innovation Programme
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£25,000,000
Publication date:
20 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Growth cohorts: next generation low carbon concrete cohort entry

UK registered businesses can apply to join a cohort of ambitious businesses.

These businesses will develop solutions to decarbonise concrete and access funding and sector-specific support, to develop and deliver innovation and growth plans.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£11,500,000
Publication date:
20 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Battery innovation concept development round 2

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.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£25,000,000
Publication date:
20 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Future offshore wind technologies: feasibility studies

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million to support feasibility studies in offshore wind across the two strands of the competition.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£10,000,000
Publication date:
17 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

2026 to 2027 strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) outlines

Apply for funding to undertake large team-based curiosity-driven bioscience discovery research projects.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Minimum award:
£2,000,000
Publication date:
16 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Contracts for Innovation: enabling commercial quantum networking

Organisations can apply for a share of £20 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop a deployable prototype of an enabling component or sub-system for commercial quantum networking.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£20,000,000
Publication date:
16 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million. This programme focuses on the creation, curation, annotation and exploitation of FAIR-data and benchmarks which will fuel AI industry growth. This funding is from Innovate UK.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Funding type:
Grant
Maximum award:
£4,500,000
Publication date:
14 April 2026
Opening date:
Closing date:

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