Live Opportunities.

Here’s a summary of the grant schemes we’re currently focussing on. New funding schemes are opening all the time, so be sure to check regularly for the latest grant opportunities.

Farming Innovation Programme: Small R&D Partnership Projects Round 5
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £13 million for small R&D partnership projects. This funding is from the industry led R&D Partnerships Fund, a part of the Defra Farming Innovation Programme.Innovate UK
National Materials Innovation Programme: CR&D Rd1
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12 million for collaborative industrial research to speed the translation of advanced materials innovations in three prioritised high growth themes and one strategic opportunity theme.Innovate UK
Investor Partnerships – ACT and Semiconductors
UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners.Innovate UK
CfI: Engineering Biology for Defra and FSA Phase 1
Organisations can apply for a share up to £3 million inclusive of VAT, to develop and scale Engineering Biology platforms, products and services.Innovate UK
Trust and confidence in policing: Research & Innovation Consortium
Apply for funding to develop and test dynamic tools and innovative approaches to measure public trust and confidence in policing by 2030. The tools and approaches developed will access the voices of underrepresented communities, assess the impact of police activity, and identify what builds public trust and confidence.AHRC BBSRC ESRC EPSRC MRC NERC STFC UKRI-wide
Economic research on the returns to R&D investment
Apply for funding to support research that can help develop new measurements of the return on investments in research and development (R&D). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.ESRC
MRC Centre of Research Excellence: round five: outline application
Apply for MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.MRC
Advanced manufacturing: measurement and sensing pilot
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million as part of a pilot. This is to support high potential businesses developing a technology, product or service in measurement, instrumentation or sensing for UK manufacturing.Innovate UK
Exploring the frontiers of environmental research 2026
Apply for funding to pursue truly novel curiosity-driven environmental research that is at an early stage of development and has the potential to be transformative. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research funding.NERC
UKRI: Integration of AI/HPC with quantum
Apply for funding to deliver collaborative research projects to develop and test integration of quantum computing into high-performance computational workflows, enabling user access and widespread adoption. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.EPSRC STFC
Electricity Demand Turn Up trial: EoI for flexibility providers
UK registered businesses providing flexibility services can submit an expression of interest for a trial assessing if DTU can reduce renewable electricity curtailment in Great Britain. Successful applicants can apply for a share of up to £16 million.Innovate UK
High performance compute resources for EPSRC communities
Apply for funding to provide high-performance compute resource for engineering and physical sciences communities. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.EPSRC
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 – 2027 Round 3
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million to fund innovation projects with businesses.Innovate UK
EPSRC Strategic Infrastructure outlines: September 2026
Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure that will improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.EPSRC
CoSTAR Satellite Labs: Accessible creative R&D infrastructure
Join the CoSTAR Network and host national infrastructure for creative sector research and development. Reduce barriers to creative businesses’ technology adoption and support commercialisation, scale up and investment for creative tech businesses. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.AHRC
CoSTAR Showcase Labs: Createch infrastructure and commercialisation
Join the CoSTAR Network and host national infrastructure for creative sector research and development. Reduce barriers to creative businesses’ technology adoption and support commercialisation, scale up and investment for creative tech businesses. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.AHRC
NERC-Innovate UK ICURe Engage programme
Apply for NERC’s ICURe Engage four-week programme for those projects previously funded by NERC. The programme aims to identify potential beneficiaries and users of academic research, introduce participants to commercialisation tools, and foster entrepreneurship.Innovate UK NERC
Transformative sustainable AI technologies
Apply for funding for projects focused on speculative and high-risk research with the potential to deliver a step change in the sustainability of future AI systems. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation funding.UKRI-wide
Pre-announcement: Open-source semiconductor security platform development
Apply for funding to support the development of an open-source hardware security research platform to strengthen the UK’s capability to design, test and assure secure hardware. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.EPSRC
ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 11
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.Innovate UK
Advancing innovation in accelerated cancer diagnosis
Innovate UK, on behalf of the OLS Cancer Healthcare Goals programme, will invest up to £25.4 million, to support the clinical validation and evaluation of early cancer diagnostic technologies and devices.Innovate UK
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ADOPT facilitator support grant: round one

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.

Investor partnerships: clean energy and climate technologies

UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners.

Contracts for innovation: FOAK 2025, bridge strikes

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7 million inclusive of VAT, across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution.

Innovate UK innovation loans future economy: round 21

UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.

Weight management pathway design accelerator

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £3 million in a design accelerator to support NHS organisations to speed up the development of novel community based patient access models that are safe, effective and resource efficient.

Contracts for innovation: FOAK 2025, personal safety

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7 million inclusive of VAT, across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution. Projects can last between three and seven months and must be completed by 31 March 2026.

Contracts for innovation: FOAK 2025, AI for complex processes

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.7 million inclusive of VAT, across four themes to develop a prototype, conduct field testing and demonstrate their solution. Projects can last between three and seven months and must be completed by 31 March 2026.

ATI Programme strategic batch: EoI, May 2025

The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.

Farming Futures R&D Fund: Precision Breeding competition

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million for precision breeding of arable and horticultural crops. This funding is from the Farming Futures Research and Development (R&D) Fund, a part of the Farming Innovation Programme.

DCMS Create Growth Programme Competition 4: large projects

UK registered micro, small and medium enterprises in the creative sector can apply for a share of up to £8 million for innovation projects to grow their business. This funding is from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

Farming Futures R&D Fund: low emissions farming

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million for industrial research projects from the Farming Futures Research and Development (R&D) Fund, a part of the Farming Innovation Programme.

DCMS Create Growth Programme competition four: small projects

UK registered micro, small and medium enterprises in the creative sector can apply for a share of up to £8 million for innovation projects to grow their business.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2025 to 2026 round two

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

Contracts for Innovation: READ-OUT digital cognitive dementia assessments

Organisations can apply for a single award of up to £600,000, inclusive of VAT. To implement and assess a dementia based digital cognitive assessment to be evaluated as part of the Real-world dementia outcomes (READ-OUT) study being managed by the University of Oxford.

DCMS Create Growth Programme competition four: small projects

UK registered micro, small and medium enterprises in the creative sector can apply for a share of up to £8 million for innovation projects to grow their business.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2025 to 2026 round two

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

Contracts for Innovation: READ-OUT digital cognitive dementia assessments

Organisations can apply for a single award of up to £600,000, inclusive of VAT. To implement and assess a dementia based digital cognitive assessment to be evaluated as part of the Real-world dementia outcomes (READ-OUT) study being managed by the University of Oxford.

Developing semiconductor hardware for critical technologies

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million. These feasibility studies will investigate ways to improve semiconductor design and manufacture within the UK to support critical technologies.

Full ADOPT grant: round one

Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £2 million. This funding supports on-farm trial and demonstration projects to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector.

Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10

Apply for funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s remit. You must be an early career researcher or innovator who is either:

Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships help businesses to partner with an academic organisation, research organisation or a Catapult, to employ a graduate with the skills and knowledge that can help the business to innovate and grow.

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