There are currently several UK funding schemes that can help to finance your R&D and innovation activities. PNO has an excellent track record in helping organisations successfully apply for these R&D grants, with a success rate 5 times higher than the national average. The programmes listed are by no means fully comprehensive, so for further information regarding the types of scheme available specifically for you, please contact our consultancy team. Further information regarding available calls can also be found using PNO’s innovation platform, Innovation Place.
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12.5M to develop innovative solutions for automation and robotics. This funding is from the Farming Futures R&D Fund.
Deadline: 15 March 2023, 11am
Deadline: 15 March 2023, 11am
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million, for solutions that reduce the cost and time required for assessing fabric performance of buildings against net zero performance targets.
Deadline 22 March 2023, 11 am
Deadline 22 March 2023, 11 am
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million for initiatives to address shortages across the semiconductor industry for innovative skills, talent, and training projects.
Deadline: 29th March 2023, 11am
Deadline: 29th March 2023, 11am
UK registered small and micro businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million for affordable, adoptable and investable innovations in transformative technologies.
Deadline: 29 March 2023, 11am
Deadline: 29 March 2023, 11am
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8m for innovative solutions to industrial problems using Quantum Computing. Funding is from the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) programme.
Deadline 29 March 2023, 11am
Deadline 29 March 2023, 11am
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7million to develop Engineering Biology (EngBio) technologies, processes, products and services, or apply Engineering Biology to societal challenges.
Deadline 29 March 2023, 11am
Deadline 29 March 2023, 11am
Apply for a share of £20M for projects that will support the development of innovative solutions to address significant nutrition challenges. Projects must have the potential to impact the nutritional quality of food and drink products consumed by the UK population. Funding is available across 3 development stages: Early; Mid; and, Late.
Deadline: 29 March 2023
Deadline: 29 March 2023
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £6 million in innovation projects for innovation in late-stage robotics and automation to increase productivity, sustainability and resilience within manufacturing processes.
Deadline 05 April 2023, 11am
Deadline 05 April 2023, 11am
Organisations can apply for a share of £25m inclusive of VAT, to develop quantum-enabled systems for positioning, navigation, timing (PNT) and quantum-enabled sensing applications relating to navigation.
Deadline 12 April 2023, 11am
Deadline 12 April 2023, 11am
A funding programme for market-oriented research and development aimed at the participation of R&D-performing small and medium-sized enterprises. The programme has very strong average success rates per call: an average of 30% and up.
Next deadline: 13 April 2023.
Next deadline: 13 April 2023.
UK SHORE and Innovate UK are delivering £77 million in match-funding to support high TRL research in close to commercial clean maritime technology.
Deadline 19 April 2023, 11am
Deadline 19 April 2023, 11am
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8M for large R&D partnership projects, from the industry-led R&D Partnerships Fund, a part of the Farming Innovation Programme.
Deadline 19 April 2023
Deadline 19 April 2023
UK registered businesses and Canadian SMEs can apply for a share of £6M to collaborate on joint research and development projects.
Deadline 19 April 2023, 5pm
Deadline 19 April 2023, 5pm
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £16M to deliver resource efficient, low-emission food production systems. Including alternative proteins and Total Controlled Environment Agriculture (TCEA).
Deadline: 19 April 2023
Deadline: 19 April 2023
This is an open competition organised by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), funded by the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP)
Deadline: 20 April 2023, 12pm
Deadline: 20 April 2023, 12pm
Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) opportunity for disruptive innovations addressing key drug related overdose priorities.
Deadline 21 April 2023, 11am
Deadline 21 April 2023, 11am
Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) opportunity for disruptive innovations addressing key drug related overdose priorities.
Deadline 21 April 2023, 11am
Deadline 21 April 2023, 11am
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4.35 million for CR&D projects related to hydrogen storage and distribution supply chain to develop new ways of delivering integrated hydrogen storage and distribution systems and the associated supply chains.
Deadline: 26 April 2023, 11am
Deadline: 26 April 2023, 11am
Research and innovation projects to develop sustainable biomanufacture based products. Design and deliver new and disruptive sustainable biomanufacturing.
Deadline: 3 May 2023 11:00am
Deadline: 3 May 2023 11:00am
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million. At least one partner must be from the UK and one partner from Singapore.
Deadline 03 May 2023, 11am
Deadline 03 May 2023, 11am
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million in total across the 3 stages, to create new or improved clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or the Indo-Pacific regions.
Deadline 28 June 2023, 12pm
Deadline 28 June 2023, 12pm
The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive in line with the UK Aerospace Technology Strategy 'Destination Zero'.
Next EOI deadline: TBC
Next EOI deadline: TBC
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital centric investment projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.
Next EOI deadline: TBC
Next EOI deadline: TBC
