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Contracts for Innovation: resource efficient construction impacts

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop the impact validation of a demonstrated resource efficiency solution.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Funding type:
Other
Total fund:
£3,000,000
Maximum award:
£300,000
Publication date:
9 July 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Contracts for Innovation: resource efficient automotive impacts

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop the impact validation of a demonstrated resource efficiency solution.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Funding type:
Other
Total fund:
£3,000,000
Maximum award:
£300,000
Publication date:
11 July 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Contracts for Innovation: resource efficient chemicals impacts

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop the impact validation of a demonstrated resource efficiency solution.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Funding type:
Other
Total fund:
£3,000,000
Maximum award:
£300,000
Publication date:
14 July 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Innovate UK innovation loans round 22

UK registered businesses can apply for loans for close to market innovative projects with strong commercial potential. They must significantly improve the UK economy and drive societal benefit.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Loan
Total fund:
£5,000,000
Publication date:
14 July 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

DRIVE35 scale-up: feasibility studies

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for feasibility studies into UK manufacturing of zero emission vehicle technologies.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department for Business and Trade, Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£5,000,000
Publication date:
15 July 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

ADOPT facilitator support grant: round three

Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a grant of £2,500 to engage an external project facilitator to support the development of a full ADOPT grant application.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£100,000
Publication date:
28 July 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund: autumn 2025

UK registered government research organisations can apply for grants between £50,000 and £250,000 to move viable public sector knowledge assets towards commercial readiness. This funding is provided by the GOTT.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department for Science Innovation and Technology, Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT)
Funding type:
Grant
Award range:
£50,000 - £250,000
Publication date:
5 June 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) series one

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.6 million for the development of Proof of Concept demonstrators of AI technologies with state of the art performance. This is to support the UK’s AI sovereignty objectives.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,600,000
Publication date:
7 August 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Knowledge Transfer Partnership: 2025 to 2026 round three

UK registered academic institutions, research and technology organisations (RTO) or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £9 million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not for profit organisations.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£9,000,000
Publication date:
16 June 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

BBSRC Engineering Biology (EngBio) ICURe Discover

Apply for funding to explore the potential market of your engineering biology-based idea, increase market awareness and gain deeper understanding of your technology’s potential applications.

You must be a bioscience researcher or technician based at a UK university, BBSRC-funded institute or approved public sector research enterprise.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£44,400
Award:
£3,700
Publication date:
15 August 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

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