Innovate UK is inviting ambitious innovative companies to participate in its Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP). Each GBIP aims to help UK businesses grow and scale on a global stage through building R&D and innovation collaborations and partnerships and accelerating access to the market. The programme consists of a Get...
West Midlands Health Innovation Fund – open for applications
Open for applications 1 August – 19 September 2025 The West Midlands Health Innovation Fund provides grant-based funding to support the adoption and spread of innovation across the West Midlands health and care system. The fund is being delivered in collaboration with South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust, Aston University and...
EMERGE RehabTech | Impact Acceleration Fund Round 1 Announcement
The first funding call announced from EMERGE RehabTech - a new £2.5 million Place-Based Impact Accelerator Account, led by NTU. This programme supports projects that use rehabilitation technologies (RehabTech) to improve health outcomes, promote wellbeing, and grow the East Midlands RehabTech economy. Round 1 opens on 4 August 2025 and includes...
UKHAIC opens Flexible Talent Mobility Account (FTMA) funding call
The FTMA is intended to support secondments and other activities that contribute to the mobility and development of researchers and technical professionals in academia and other sectors (industry, healthcare, charities etc.). The UK Healthy Ageing Innovation Consortium supports researchers to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and collaborate across sectors to formulate...
Knowledge transfer partnership 2025/2026 funding opportunity
UK registered academic institutions, research and technology organisations or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £9m to fund innovation projects with businesses or not for profits. To lead a project your organisation must: be a UK registered higher education or further education institution, research and technology organisation...
NIHR i4i Connect funding call
The NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme is accepting outline applications to their latest researcher-led Connect funding opportunity. Connect is a researcher-led funding opportunity and supports small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in need of a funding boost to reach the next stage in the technology development pathway. This is a two-stage funding...
Study brief: The effects of a recovery gel on endurance cycling performance in the heat
The popularity of endurance sports like cycling and running has grown significantly over the past two decades. Muscle contractions during exercise increases body temperature. The thermoregulatory response to lower body temperature is to sweat, which over a prolonged period, results in dehydration due to loss of water and electrolytes and...
UKRI unveils new £9 million proof-of-concept fund
The UKRI Proof of Concept funding opportunity aims to support and accelerate the development of new or improved technologies, products, processes, and services arising from research activities at eligible UK research organisations, for example, universities, research institutes, facilities and centres. This opportunity provides grant funding to eligible UKRI research organisations,...
Industrial Doctoral Landscape Award 2024/25 funding opportunity
Apply for funding to deliver an industrial doctoral landscape award (IDLA) in the biosciences. Applications should be strategically led by an organisation outside of academia partnering with a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding who will submit the application and act as the training grant holder. BBSRC will fund...
The Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund
The Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF) is a capital grants fund which aims to build resilience for future health emergencies and capitalise on the UK’s world-leading research and development capabilities. The fund will enhance and accelerate affordable access to mature, new and emerging life sciences products for both pandemic...