Happy New Year, one and all, and welcome to the first edition of Grants Watch in 2024.
Grants Watch is GrantTree’s monthly roundup of grant competitions open to UK businesses, academic institutions, and other organisations operating in a wide range of innovative sectors, from sustainability to semiconductors, aviation to assisted living.
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APC25: Industrialising Net Zero Automotive Technology
Opens – 15 January 2024
Closes – 13 March 2024 11:00 am
Innovate UK, working with the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), is offering grants of up to £20 million to fund late-stage, collaborative R&D projects that help accelerate the UK towards “a net zero automotive future”.
Your project must:
- Supports the UK’s vision by securing long-term R&D investment
- Create or safeguard high-value jobs
- Achieve, through the associated supply chain, the design, build, test and manufacture of net zero vehicles
- Support the UK’s transition to zero-emission vehicles and a pathway to net zero automotive industry
Your grant funding request must be between £2.5 million and £20 million. At least 50% of your project costs must be match-funded, i.e. funded by other sources.
Environmental Monitoring Innovation
Opens – 22 January 2024
Closes – 6 March 2024 11:00 am
As part of the Environmental Monitoring Programme, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) is partnering with Innovate UK to offer grants of up to £315,000 to fund collaborative projects that “develop environmental monitoring solutions to enable improved monitoring of environmental variables.”
The two organisations are looking to fund projects that will:
- Support the development and testing of new sensing systems and monitoring capabilities
- Help the UK environmental monitoring sector respond to growing markets for environmental sensing
- Deliver new and stronger partnerships between academia, public and private sectors
Your total project costs must be between £150,000 and £450,000. You can apply for a grant worth up to 70% of your total investment if you are a micro or small organisation, 60% if you are a medium-sized organisation, and 50% if you are a large organisation.
Not sure if you’re a micro, small, medium or large business? Check out the official definition.
Farming Innovation Programme: Large R&D Partnerships Round 3
Opens – 8 January 2024
Closes – 13 March 2024 11:00 am
Defra is offering grants of up to £3,500,000 in grant funding for innovation projects that drive the development of commercially relevant solutions to major on-farm or immediate post-farmgate challenges and that have the potential to improve overall productivity, profitability, and environmental sustainability.
Your total project costs must be between £3 million and £5 million. You can apply for a grant worth up to 70% of your total investment if you are a micro or small organisation, 60% if you are a medium-sized organisation, and 50% if you are a large organisation.
You must collaborate with other UK organisations. Your consortium must include at least one SME and one claiming academic institution, research and technology organisation (RTO), charity, not-for-profit, or public sector organisation.
SBRI: Decarbonising Concrete
Opens – 8 January 2024
Closes – 4 March 2024 11:00 am
The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) is offering up to £500,000 in grant funding for innovation projects that accelerate the commercial adoption of lower-carbon concrete by enabling engagement between projects and end users.
The purpose of this competition is to:
- Demonstrate market demand
- Commercially de-risk innovations
- Encourage investment
- Accelerate adoption
You can have up to £500,000 in total project costs and apply for a grant worth 100% of your total investment.
UKBIC SME Credit Round 2
Opens – 8 January 2024
Closes – 6 March 2024 11:00 am
This two-stranded competition is offering UK SMEs up to £450,000 in grant funding to support their engagement with the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) and help them move their innovations from technological potential towards commercial capability.
Your total project costs must be between £100,000 and £1 million, and you can apply for a grant worth up to 45% of your total investment. Funding is provided by the Faraday Battery Challenge, a scheme designed to support battery technologies in the UK.
The two strands of this competition are:
- Processing for electrode and cells
- Digital or software
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That brings us to the end of the January 2024 edition of Grants Watch.
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