New Grants Added This Week – 8th January 2026 to 15th January 2026
There were 55 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £82,873,700.
The amounts available range from £2,500 to £25,000,000.
Money is available for the following funding purposes: Buildings and Renovation, Business Growth, Business Innovation, Purchasing Equipment, Recruit and Develop Staff, Starting a Business and Working Capital.
Money is available for the following business types: Academic, Large Business, Medium Business, Micro Business, Research Organisation, Small Business and Start-ups.
Top 10 Funding Opportunities:
Innovative Health Initiative 12th Call For Proposals
International consortia can apply for funding to support projects to tackle unmet public health needs with ambitious public-private partnerships. Topics within the call include, but are not limited to, boosting innovation for a better understanding of the determinants of health and boosting innovation through better integration of fragmented health R&I efforts.
DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Collaborate – Industrial Research
This competition aims to support businesses with late stage collaborative research and development projects that will support the UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles and a pathway to a net zero automotive industry.
DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Collaborate – Experimental Development
This competition aims to support businesses with late stage collaborative research and development projects that will support the UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles and a pathway to a net zero automotive industry.
Efficient and Compliant Access to and Use of Data (IA) (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership)
The results of the projects supported under this topic are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, the development of secure, compliant and adaptive systems that improve the availability, accuracy, privacy and interoperability of data across the Union.
Apply AI: Robotics for Manufacturing: Advancing Core Skills through Technical Challenges (RIA) (Partnership in AI, Data and Robotics)
The results of the project supported under this topic are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, the development of advanced robotics skills using robotics foundation models tailored for manufacturing.
Apply AI: Pilot of the “Science for AI” Pillar of RAISE (“Resource for AI Science in Europe”) (RIA)
The results of the project supported under this topic are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, setting up a network of excellent AI Labs in the EU and Associated Countries, raising visibility and strengthening collaboration in European AI research.
Challenge-Driven GenAI4EU Booster in Apply AI Prioritised Sectors (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)
The results of the projects supported under this topic are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, significant technology progress and innovation through a challenge-driven approach in the fields of aerospace, pharma/drug development or telecommunication networks.
Development of Novel Vaccines for Viral Pathogens with Epidemic Potential
The results of the projects supported under this topic are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, candidate vaccines being available for emerging and re-emerging viral infections, increasing therapeutic options for clinical deployment in case of an epidemic or pandemic.
Open Internet Stack Sovereign Solutions (RIA)
This topic aims to stimulate the emergence at European and global scale of solutions that are, amongst other things, open source and made in Europe, supporting trust and sovereignty, and delivering credible alternative choices for citizens, governments and companies including start-ups and SMEs.
Global Health EDCTP3 Work Programme 2026
This work programme will fund research and innovation projects for sub-Saharan Africa which tackle tuberculosis, lower respiratory tract infections, HIV and climate-change-driven infectious diseases, among other topics.