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CfI: Boosting fathers’ engagement to improve child outcomes
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million, inclusive of VAT, to develop innovative interventions, technologies, and frameworks that boost fathers’ engagement to improve children’s learning and development outcomes.
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UKRI
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£200,000 to £500,000
Health & Life Science
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15/4/26
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Biosecurity Frontiers
The Cabinet Office is seeking innovative proposals to assist in delivering the ambitions of the 2023 UK Biological Security Strategy and 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS).
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Cabinet Office
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£100,000 to £500,000
Biotechnology
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Advanced manufacturing supply chain innovation: CRD
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6.5 million for collaborative industrial research to make supply chains more productive, resource efficient and resilient.
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Innovate UK
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£250,000 to £1 million
Advanced manufacturing & materials
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1/5/26
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Contracts for Innovation: cyber scale in critical sectors
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3.5 million inclusive of VAT, to develop, demonstrate and commercialise their cyber security solution in real end user environments within critical sector organisations.
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Innovate UK
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Up to £300,000
Digital tools and technologies
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14/4/26
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Frontier AI Discovery
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to develop feasibility studies for frontier AI and foundation models
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Innovate UK
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£25,000 - £50,000
AI
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Counter UAS technologies
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million to develop counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) dual use technologies that can be applied to both civil and military settings. This funding is from Innovate UK.
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Innovate UK
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£300,000 to £1.25 million
Defence
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Dual-use aviation systems and autonomy
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million for the development of aviation technologies and systems that support both civil and military use cases. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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Innovate UK
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£300,000 to £1.25 million
Defence
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CfI: Advanced Connectivity Technologies (ACT) – Call 1
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of £15 million, including VAT, to develop near term, testable solutions that advance the UK’s Secure & Resilient and Sustainable Network Grand Challenges through deployable prototypes on UK testbeds.
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Innovate UK / DSIT
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£200,000–£2 million
Digital tools and technologies
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7/4/26
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Future offshore wind technologies: feasibility studies
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million to support Feasibility Studies in Offshore Wind across the two strands of the competition. This funding is from Innovate UK.
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Innovate UK
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£50,000 to £250,000
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Future offshore wind technologies: industrial research
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million to support Industrial research in Offshore Wind across the two strands of this competition. This funding is from Innovate UK.
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Innovate UK
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£150,000 - £1.5 million
Clean energy
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