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Innovate UK’s new prospectus: what it means for ambitious UK innovators
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Opens:
17/3/26
Closes:
29/4/26
Deadline: Ongoing – no fixed deadline
AI Champions: Frontier AI Phase 1
UK registered SME businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million to deliver feasibility studies for frontier artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) technologies with a clear route defensible scale-up. This is funded by Innovate UK.
Funding body
Innovate UK
Award
£150,000- £250,000 per project
AI
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Opens:
16/2/26
Closes:
6/5/26
Deadline: Ongoing – no fixed deadline
Contracts for Innovation in drug and alcohol addiction healthcare
Organisations can apply for contracts between £200,000 and £1.5 million (inclusive of VAT) to advance pharmaceutical, MedTech and digital health interventions that improve treatment, recovery and prevention of harm and deaths from drug and alcohol addictions.
Funding body
Innovate UK on behalf of the OLS
Award
£200,000 to £1.5 million
Health & Life Science
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Opens:
16/2/26
Closes:
6/5/26
Deadline: Ongoing – no fixed deadline
Advancing innovation in drug and alcohol addiction healthcare
£20 million available across two strands to accelerate pharmaceutical, MedTech and digital interventions that improve treatment, recovery and reduce harm and deaths from drug and alcohol addictions. Projects must reach TRL 8 or 9 and progress towards regulatory approval and UK rollout.
Funding body
Innovate UK on behalf of the OLS
Award
£3 million
Health & Life Science
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Opens:
1/4/26
Closes:
13/5/26
Deadline: Ongoing – no fixed deadline
Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million to develop secure, sustainable or sovereign connectivity technologies that support the UK’s Advanced Connectivity Technologies programme.
Funding body
DSIT (via Innovate UK)
Award
£200,000 - £5 million
Digital tools and technologies
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Opens:
14/4/26
Closes:
20/5/26
Deadline: Ongoing – no fixed deadline
Contracts for Innovation: Enabling Commercial Quantum Networking
Organisations can apply for a share of £20 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop a deployable prototype of an enabling component or sub-system for commercial quantum networking.
Funding body
Innovate UK
Award
Contract value between £1.5 million and £3 million
Quantum
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Opens:
13/4/26
Closes:
27/5/26
Deadline: Ongoing – no fixed deadline
Medicines Manufacturing: Labs of the Future
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7.5 million to support the development and use of digital, automated, and robotic technologies.
Funding body
Innovate UK
Award
£500,000 - £1.5 million
Health & Life Science
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Opens:
9/4/26
Closes:
27/5/26
Deadline: Ongoing – no fixed deadline
Battery innovation feasibility studies round 2
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million for innovation in battery technologies for electrification. This funding is from the battery innovation programme.
Funding body
Innovate UK
Award
£70,000 to £500,000
Clean energy
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Opens:
9/4/26
Closes:
27/5/26
Deadline: Ongoing – no fixed deadline
Battery innovation concept development round 2
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification. This funding is from The Battery Innovation Programme.
Funding body
Innovate UK
Award
£500,000 to £4 million
Clean energy
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Opens:
21/4/26
Closes:
27/5/26
Deadline: Ongoing – no fixed deadline
Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million. This programme focuses on the creation, curation, annotation and exploitation of FAIR-data and benchmarks which will fuel AI industry growth. This funding is from Innovate UK.
Funding body
Innovate UK
Award
£500,000 to £750,000
AI
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Opens:
15/4/26
Closes:
27/5/26
Deadline: Ongoing – no fixed deadline
ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 8
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.
Funding body
Defra
Award
£2,500
Agritech
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