Research, fellowship and project opportunities that include individuals in structured eligibility.
OPENHealth & Medical
UK Government
Description Innovate UK, on behalf of the Office for Life Sciences’ (OLS) Cancer Healthcare Goals programme, will invest up to £25.4 million in innovative CR&D projects. This funding will be to support the clinical validation and evaluation of early cancer diagnostic technologies and devices. This is subject to a suffi
- Deadline
- Oct 29, 2026
- Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Description Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £12 million into materials innovation projects. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. This funding is part of the National Materials Innovation Programme, announced as part of the Advanced
- Deadline
- Oct 29, 2026
- Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Description UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) R&D Missions Accelerator Programme (R&D MAP) , will invest up to £900,000 from the Safer Streets Mission in this Contracts for Innovation competition. This competition is operated by Innovate UK on behalf of the R&D MAP within UKRI. This is subject to us receiving a suffici
- Deadline
- Oct 29, 2026
- Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Description UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £3 million from the UKRI Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity Mission in this Contracts for Innovation competition. This is subject to us receiving a sufficient number of high quality applications. The aim of the competition is to support organisations t
- Deadline
- Oct 29, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice
OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Word limit: 550In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for e
- Deadline
- Oct 30, 2026
- Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Word limit: 550In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for e
- Deadline
- Oct 30, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice
OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Description Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £8.5 million from the UKRI’s Engineering Biology Programme . The funding total is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. The aim of this competition is to deliver business led research and developm
- Deadline
- Nov 4, 2026
- Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Word limit: 550 In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for
- Deadline
- Nov 4, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice
OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Description DRIVE35 (Driving Research and Investment in Vehicle Electrification) is a Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) led programme aimed at transforming the UK's automotive industry. This is achieved by supporting R&D and the commercial scale up of innovative zero emission vehicle technol
- Deadline
- Nov 5, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice
OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Description The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) through Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £2 million in this Contracts for Innovation competition. This is subject to us receiving a sufficient number of high quality applications. The battery innovatio
- Deadline
- Nov 5, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice
OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Description Text update 13 October 2026: remove repetition and add clarity. Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest a minimum of £4.77 million through the Climate Tech FOAK Builder pilot programme. This will support ambitious, late stage climate tech businesses developing a First of a Kind (
- Deadline
- Nov 6, 2026
- Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
These bursaries are delivered by the FOSTER programme at UKAEA, which looks to create a pool of fusion-ready individuals able to join the growing fusion sector. The high-level project strategy to “implement a mechanism to provide bursaries to support the studies of students from under-represented backgrounds on courses
- Deadline
- Nov 10, 2026
- Funding
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OPENResearch & Science
UK Government
Word limit: 550 In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for
- Deadline
- Nov 11, 2026
- Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will invest up to £100,000 to support the development of applications for on-farm trials and farm experiment projects. This funding is part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme , delivered in partnership with Innovate UK. This competition is designed for
- Deadline
- Nov 12, 2026
- Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £3.1 million on Frontier AI. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. The aim of this competition is to is to advance the development of state of the art artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning
- Deadline
- Nov 12, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice
OPENResearch & Science
UK Government
Word limit: 550 In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for
- Deadline
- Nov 13, 2026
- Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Description Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £1.66 million on industrial research for novel reusable AI mechanisms. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. The aim of this competition is to advance the development of novel reusable art
- Deadline
- Nov 19, 2026
- Funding
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OPENResearch & Science
UK Government
Word limit: 550 In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for
- Deadline
- Nov 25, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice
OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Investor Partnerships Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has selected investor partners with aligned investment interests and capacity to lead investments. These investor partners have demonstrated that they have the credibility, capability, capacity and appetite to invest in innovative, technol
- Deadline
- Nov 26, 2026
- Funding
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OPENAgriculture & Food
DOC NOAA - ERA Production
NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (MMHSRP) is authorized under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to facilitate collecting and disseminating reference data on stranded marine mammals (cetaceans and pinnipeds, excluding walr
- Deadline
- Dec 2, 2026
- Funding
- Award range: $1–$150,000
OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Description Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with The Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWE), (The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy), to invest up to £2.4 million in innovation projects. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications bei
- Deadline
- Dec 2, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice
OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
The Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) is run by the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) and funded by the Department for Business Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST), formally the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (fDSIT). Innovate UK is administering this competition on behalf
- Deadline
- Dec 2, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice
OPENDisability & Accessibility
UK Government
Word limit: 550In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for e
- Deadline
- Dec 2, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice
OPENSmall Business & Startups
UK Government
Description Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to invest up to £7 million to support the technical development and commercial readiness of sustainable technologies for the manufacturing of medicines. This is subject to a sufficient numb
- Deadline
- Dec 3, 2026
- Funding
- See official notice