Funding Opportunities
Positive change is driven through new ideas and innovation. But innovation is complex. Sometimes projects need to be connected with new opportunities or looked at from new perspectives to make the difference. This is where KTN comes in.
If you’re looking for experienced input into your idea, product, service, research or challenge, then invite us to get involved. We will not only work with you in understanding your market or challenge but will also direct you to the latest funding opportunities available, and how you can apply.
To find how KTN can support your funding application or help you find partners, click here.
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iX Challenge: Smarter Bolt Tightening Operations For Offshore Wind Turbines
Opens 17/06/2022
Closes: 02/08/2022
The challenge is to deliver a cost-effective alternative to traditional methods to checking and tightening bolts and a method to identify loss of tension or failure of a bolt or series of bolts. The method must be suitable for use at operational offshore wind farms, without the need for widespread bolt disturbance.
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iX Challenge: Heavy Lifting Solutions for Offshore Wind Farms
Opens 17/06/2022
Closes: 02/08/2022
The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Scottish & Southern Electricity Renewables (SSER), which wishes to engage innovators to deliver solutions for lifting heavy turbine components (600kg+) which reduce reliance on the use of jack-up vessels.
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iX Challenge: Remote Diagnostics and Digital Twins for Offshore Wind
Opens 17/06/2022
Closes: 02/08/2022
The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Scottish & Southern Electricity Renewables (SSER), with ownership in both Beatrice and Greater Gabbard offshore wind sites. SSER wishes to engage innovators to find solutions providing smart diagnostic tools for condition-based maintenance of offshore wind assets.
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iX Challenge: Automating Access Methods for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) of Offshore Wind Farm Components
Opens 17/06/2022
Closes: 02/08/2022
The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Scottish & Southern Electricity Renewables (SSER), who wish to engage innovators to solve the challenge of automating any of their current non-destructive testing, to remove the need for technicians to work in unsafe environments.
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iX Challenge: Improved Operational Decision-Making Tools for Offshore Wind Farm Maintenance
Opens 17/06/2022
Closes: 02/08/2022
The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Scottish & Southern Electricity Renewables (SSER), the operator of the Beatrice and Greater Gabbard offshore wind sites. SSER wishes to engage innovators to find a more advanced way of managing scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on offshore windfarms.
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iX Challenge: Waste Heat Measurement In Hot Process Flue (Exhaust) Stacks
Opens 17/06/2022
Closes: 12/08/2022
This challenge seeks to identify technologies to measure and characterise hot waste heat streams without invasive installation/operation and do so with a high degree of confidence in the accuracy of the given measurement.
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UK-Israel Eureka Bilateral: Collaborative R&D
Opens 20/06/2022
Closes: 19/09/2022
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is investing up to £2 million to fund collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects focused on industrial research with Israel.
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iX challenge: Using Car Parks to create Sustainable Energy
Opens 15/06/2022
Closes: 21/07/2022
Surrey Heath Borough Council are looking for a partner/s able to suggest how to turn their car parks into generation/storage sites with the energy being utilised within the locality (car charging or business/facility use).
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iX challenge: Secure and Accessible EV Carports for Multi Storey Car Parks
Opens 15/06/2022
Closes: 21/07/2022
The challenge is to design and implement physical hardware solutions that can integrate with existing infrastructure of the St Johns Multi Storey and provide energy generation that can be distributed to EV chargers in a secure way while optimising car parking on the top deck.
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Fast Start: Innovation for net zero and healthcare
Opens 11/07/2022
Closes: 26/07/2022
Innovate UK is offering small and micro businesses a share of up to £30 million in grants for affordable, adoptable and investable innovations in net zero and self-driven healthcare.
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Young Innovators Awards 2022/23
Opens 13/06/2022
Closes: 27/07/2022
Young people (aged 18-30 by 27th July 2022) can apply for an award that will help turn their business idea into a reality – including a £5,000 grant, a two days a week living allowance, and tailored business support.
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VocTech Seed Grant Fund 2022
Opens 15/06/2022
Closes: 13/07/2022
VocTech Seed is a test bed, supporting the development of new ideas that use digital tools and approaches to transform how people gain skills for work. They fund projects that are at a relatively early stage, helping to prototype ideas and work out the next steps necessary on the journey to long-term success.
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SBRI: MRV tools and techniques for land based greenhouse gas removal, phase 1
Opens 27/06/2022
Closes: 07/09/2022
Organisations can apply for a share of £375,000, inclusive of VAT, to develop tools, technologies and techniques to assist and enable the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of land based greenhouse gas removal (GGR) methods.
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ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest June 2022
Opens 06/06/2022
Closes: 22/06/2022
The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.
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Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition – Round 4
Opens 09/06/2022
Closes: 13/07/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.
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Identifying Solutions to Crop Damage Caused by Birds
Opens 27/05/2022
Closes: 08/07/2022
This Innovation Exchange challenge, delivered by Innovate UK KTN through the Global Alliance Africa project, is supporting a large Agri-based Manufacturing Company with operations across Africa, which is looking for innovative solutions to prevent crop damage caused by migrating birds.
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Affordable and Easy to Maintain Solutions for Sorghum Grain Threshing (and Other Grains)
Opens 27/05/2022
Closes: 08/07/2022
This Innovation Exchange challenge, delivered by Innovate UK KTN through the Global Alliance Africa project, is supporting a large Agri-based Manufacturing Company with operations across Africa, looking for innovative solutions for grain threshing to reduce post-harvest wastage. Solutions need to be lightweight, affordable, and easy to maintain.
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Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 2 – Collaborative R&D
Opens 25/05/2022
Closes: 13/07/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £12 million for innovative clean maritime projects. Strand 2, Collaborative R&D, is for agile development and pre-deployment testing of clean maritime technologies, with project costs £100k-£3m.
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Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 2 - Feasibility
Opens 25/05/2022
Closes: 13/07/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £12 million for innovative clean maritime technologies. Strand 1 is for feasibility studies for pre-deployment testing for innovative clean maritime technology demonstrations, with project costs £100k-£1m.
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Faraday Battery Challenge Round 5 Innovation: CR&D
Opens 23/05/2022
Closes: 17/08/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million across two strands, for innovation in propulsion battery technologies for electric vehicles. This fund is for CR&D projects with total costs from £500,000 to £12 million.
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Faraday Battery Challenge Round 5 Innovation: Feasibility Studies
Opens 23/05/2022
Closes: 17/08/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million across two strands, for innovation in propulsion battery technologies for electric vehicles. This strand is for feasibility studies of less than 12 months with project costs between £100,000 and £750,000.