Top 10 Funding Opportunities:

SBRI Competition Fusion Industry Challenges – Novel Concepts for Robust Diagnostics Systems, Sensing and Control

This competition aims to develop solutions to fusion energy challenges in two key priority areas: Novel concepts for robust diagnostics systems and Robust components for sensing and control.

Future-Proofing Biosecurity by Strengthening the UK’s Microbial Forensics Capability

The Defence and Security Accelerator is inviting proposals that address challenges within the field of Microbial Forensics. The following research areas are of particular interest to this competition: Computational tools that improve the opportunity to detect anomalies in genome sequencing data and technologies that allow the identification and/or computational analysis of other omic signatures for novel Microbial Forensic capabilities.

Contracts for Innovation: Accessible Information on Coaches

This competition is seeking an affordable, user friendly hardware and software solution, which provides accessible audio visual information on coaches, particularly rail replacement coaches.

Manchester Prize – Round 2 – Clean Energy Systems – Research and Development

The prize is open to teams of innovators with breakthrough ideas for overcoming challenges in the field of clean energy using AI. Up to ten finalist teams will receive a cash prize, non-financial support and access to free computing power to develop their innovation.

Agricultural Diversification and Horticulture Scheme – Building Acquisition and Renovation

This scheme is providing capital grants to farmers and existing horticultural producers in Wales to support the development and establishment of agricultural diversification enterprises on farms and support the development and establishment of commercial horticultural enterprises.

Agricultural Diversification and Horticulture Scheme – Purchasing Capital Equipment

This scheme is providing capital grants to farmers and existing horticultural producers in Wales to support the development and establishment of agricultural diversification enterprises on farms and support the development and establishment of commercial horticultural enterprises.

6G-XR Open Call 3 – Vertical Replicability Enablers

This Open Call is inviting third parties to submit projects that leverage 6G-XR’s enablers, infrastructure facilities and testbeds to deploy, replicate and validate the verticals of their interest.

euROBIN 3rd Open Call for the Technology Exchange Programme

The Technology Exchange Programme aims to promote the participation of researchers and companies for the design, development, and validation of novel scientific methods and technologies that contribute to the extension of the range of intelligent transferable skills and capabilities of robots in different application domains (industrial, personal, and outdoors), complementing the main goals considered in the euROBIN project. Beneficiaries selected under this open call will join some of the euROBIN core teams to integrate and evaluate the developed solutions of the robots at the hosting labs.

Fit For Growth Programme

This programme provides fully-funded support to help innovative, production based SMEs to achieve their ambitious goals as well as match-funded grants to help them adopt cutting-edge digital technologies.

Call for Expressions of Interest: Airside Automated Pavement Inspection –

This Call is seeking automated pavement inspection solutions help to automate the inspection of pavement condition through the collection of data from equipment on vehicles which is processed (e.g. though use of AI analytics) to create condition survey reports.