If your business is looking for additional funding to support its innovation activities, below is a summary of all the grant funding competitions open for entries between July and September 2023. You can click on any of the grant titles to see full details on the government website.
The competitions are listed in opening date order with the most recently opened first. New competitions are regularly announced and this list will be updated on a weekly basis throughout this quarter. This list was last updated on 28th September 2023.
Whilst there are a wide range of grant funding opportunities available to businesses, applying for funding is highly competitive and it often makes sense for those unfamiliar with the process to seek professional assistance. R&D Funding Group works with specialist grant writing partners to help businesses across the UK improve their chances of success in obtaining funding. For more information, please contact us.
Innovate UK Smart Grants September 2023
- Total funding available: £25 million
- Competition opens: Thursday 28th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 17th January 2024 at 11:00am
AI Solutions to improve productivity in key sectors:
Single Entities / Collaborations
- Total funding available: £32 million
- Competition opens: Wednesday 27th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 15th November 2023 at 11:00am
Medicines Manufacturing Skills: Centre of Excellence
- Total funding available: £5.3 million
- Competition opens: Tuesday 26th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 22nd November 2023 at 11:00am
Flexible, agile, scalable and sustainable medicines manufacturing
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Competition opens: Tuesday 26th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 22nd November 2023 at 11:00am
Biomedical Catalyst 2023 Round 2: Industry-led R&D
- Total funding available: £20 million
- Competition opens: Wednesday 20th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 8th November 2023 at 11:00am
Farming Innovation Programme – feasibility round 3
- Total funding available: £4.5 million
- Competition opens: Monday 18th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 15th November 2023 at 11:00am
Scalable Quantum Network Technologies: Collaborative R&D
- Total funding available: £10 million
- Competition opens: Monday 18th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 1st November 2023 at 11:00am
Media Cymru: Greening the screen fund
- Total funding available: £600,000
- Competition opens: Monday 18th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 1st November 2023 at 11:00am
- Total funding available: £900,000
- Competition opens: Monday 18th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 1st November 2023 at 11:00am
Canada-UK: Plant-based Protein Innovation
- Total funding available: £6.5 million
- Competition opens: Monday 18th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 1st November 2023 at 11:00am
SSPP: Liquid food and beverages in refillable packaging
- Total funding available: £1.5 million
- Competition opens: Monday 18th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 25th October 2023 at 11:00am
Canada-UK Ocean Collaborative R&D: Expression of Interest
- Total funding available: £2 million
- Competition opens: Monday 11th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 18th October 2023 at 11:00am
ATI Programme strategic batch: EOI September 2023
- Competition opens: Monday 11th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 27th September 2023 at 11:00am
UK – Germany Bilateral: Collaborative R&D Round 2
- Total funding available: £4 million
- Competition opens: Monday 4th September 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 6th December 2023 at 11:00am
UK – Singapore Collaborative R&D Call Sustainability and Net Zero
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Competition opens: Monday 14th August 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 6th December 2023 at 11:00am
Farming Innovation Programme Small R&D Partnership Projects Round 3
- Total funding available: £9.8 million
- Competition opens: Monday 14th August 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 25th October 2023 at 11:00am
Analysis for Innovators (A4I) Round 11 – stage 1
- Total funding available: £2.2 million
- Competition opens: Monday 7th August 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 6th September 2023 at 11:00am
CMDC Round 4:
Feasibility Studies and Pre-Deployment Trials
Vessel and Infrastructure Combined Demonstrations
Vessel or Infrastructure demonstrations
- Total funding available: £34 million
- Competition opens: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 27th September 2023 at 11:00am
Net Zero Living: User focused design
- Total funding available: £3.8 million
- Competition opens: Tuesday 1st August 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 4th October 2023 11:00am
Innovation in Professional & Financial Services R2 Single
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Competition opens: Tuesday 1st August 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 27th September 2023 at 11:00am
Innovation in Professional & Financial Services R2 Collaborations
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Competition opens: Tuesday 1st August 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 27th September 2023 at 11:00am
Improving Observation Capabilities of Biodiversity in UK Waters: Phase 2
- Total funding available: £750,000
- Competition opens: Monday 24th July 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 6th September 2023 at 11:00am
Defra Farming Innovation Investor Partnership
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Opening date: Monday 24th July 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 30th August 2023 11:00am
ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest July 2023
- Total funding available: £685 million
- Competition opens: Monday 17th July 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 2nd August 2023 at 11:00am
- Total funding available: £2.5 million
- Competition opens: Friday 14th July 2023
- Competition closes: Thursday 15th September 2023 at 1:00pm
Innovate UK Unlocking Potential Award 2023: Build
- Total funding available: £50,000
- Competition opens: Monday 10th July 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 6th September 2023 at 11:00am
Innovate UK Unlocking Potential Award 2023: Begin
- Total funding available: £5,000
- Competition opens: Monday 10th July 2023
- Competition closes: Wednesday 6th September 2023 at 11:00am
APC24: Industrialising net-zero automotive technology
- Total funding available: £20 million
- Opening date: Monday 3rd July 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 20th September 2023 11:00am
Canada-UK: Biomanufacturing of Biologics and Advanced Therapies
- Total funding available: £3.5 million
- Opening date: Monday 26th June 2023
- Closing date: Tuesday 17th October 2023 at 5:00pm
Professional & Financial Services Data Access Innovation Lab: ESG
- Total funding available: £8 million
- Opening date: Monday 26th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 30th August 2023 at 11:00am
UK-South Korea Digital Health CRD
- Total funding available: £3 million
- Opening date: Monday 19th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 2nd August 2023 at 11:00am
Knowledge Asset Grant Fund: Explore, Autumn 2023
- Total funding available: £25,000
- Opening date: Friday 16th June 2023
- Closing date: Thursday 7th September 2023 at 11:00am
Innovate UK Smart grants: June 2023
- Total funding available: £25 million
- Opening date: Thursday 15th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 27th September 2023 at 11:00am
UK-Israel Eureka Bilateral Collaborative R&D: Round 2
- Total funding available: £2 million
- Opening date: Monday 5th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 13th September 2023 at 11:00am
Industrial Decarbonisation: Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plans
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Opening date: Monday 5th June 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 2nd August 2023 at 11:00am
India – UK Collaborative R&D for industrial sustainability
- Total funding available: £5 million
- Opening date: Wednesday 31st May 2023
- Closing date: Wednesday 6th September 2023 at 11:00am