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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Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2022 to 2023, Round 3
Opens 27/06/2022
Closes: 14/09/2022
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme allows a UK registered business or not for profit organisation to partner with a UK education institution, research and technology organisation (RTO) or Catapult to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project.
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DASA Competition: Generation-after-next Wearable Technologies
Opens 20/06/2022
Closes: 25/08/2022
DASA are looking for devices capable of measuring biomolecules in the human body: “Beyond the smartwatch: towards continuous, molecular measurements with wearable technology”.
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DASA Competition: Engineering Biology for Defence and Security
Opens 20/06/2022
Closes: 25/08/2022
Dstl is seeking highly innovative approaches to understand the contribution that engineering biology can make to Defence Capability in materials, power, energy and sensing.
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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: 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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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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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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Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility: Deployments
Opens 23/05/2022
Closes: 20/07/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £40 million of CCAV competition funding, supporting new automated transport service projects.
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Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility: Mass transit
Opens 23/05/2022
Closes: 20/07/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million for feasibility studies into the use of connected and automated mobility as a mass transit solution. Your proposed automated vehicle services must be on physically segregated infrastructure.
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Horizon Europe Guarantee 2022
Opens 16/05/2022
Closes: 31/12/2022
The UK government has announced a new scheme that guarantees funding for successful applicants to the first and second wave of Horizon Europe grant awards regardless of the outcome of the UK’s efforts to associate to Horizon Europe.
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Design Exchange Partnerships: designing net zero
Opens 01/09/2022
Closes: 30/11/2022
Apply for funding to develop design-based solutions for specific net zero and climate crisis challenges facing UK coastal and island communities.
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Design and pilot digital skills training programmes to embed digital skills in arts and humanities research
Opens 03/05/2022
Closes: 28/07/2022
Apply for funding to design and pilot digital skills training programmes for the use of digital tools and methods in arts and humanities research. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.
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Innovate UK Smart Grants: April 2022
Opens 25/04/2022
Closes: 27/07/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for game-changing, commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy. It must be an innovative, disruptive, ambitious, world-class solution, with no similar technology commercially available anywhere in the world.
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UK-South Korea Collaborative R&D
Opens 14/02/2022
Closes: 06/07/2022
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for this competition, with a maximum grant of £350k/project. This funding is for the purpose of developing innovative proposals with South Korea.
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Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022: Civil Security for Society - Cluster 3
Opens 09/08/2021
Closes: 23/11/2022
Horizon Europe has a wide variety of open calls for civil security for society, with closing dates in September, October or November 2021, or February or November 2022. Some of these also include security, cyber security, AI, and/or infrastructure.