Innovate-Uk

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CfI: Boosting Fathers' Engagement to Improve Child Outcomes

Innovate UK is funding phase 1 competition projects that build evidence-based interventions, products, tools, or service models to increase fathers' engagement in learning and child development, with an overall budget of up to £2,000,000 and individual phase 1 contracts between £200,000 and £500,000 inclusive of VAT.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: £2,000,000 total programme budget; £200,000 to £500,000 per phase 1 contract inclusive of VAT Deadline: Jun 10, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Contracts for Innovation: Cyber Scale in Critical Sectors (2026)

Innovate UK is running a Competition for cybersecurity organisations with TRL-7 solutions to scale into real critical-sector environments, with up to £3.5m in total competition funding and project awards up to £300,000 (VAT inclusive).

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Up to £3,500,000 total competition budget; up to £300,000 per awarded project inclusive of VAT Deadline: Jun 10, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Contracts for Innovation: FOAK26 (DFT Rail Innovation, 2026-27)

Innovate UK and the Department for Transport are running FOAK26, a 2026 rail-focused Contracts for Innovation competition to fund first-of-a-kind prototypes, field testing, and demonstrator projects across eight practical challenges.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: £4,300,000 total programme budget; up to £210,000 per project (inclusive of VAT) Deadline: Jun 24, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Collaborate 3 (2026): Share of £20 Million for Late-Stage Zero Emission Vehicle R&D in the UK

Innovate UK's DRIVE35 Collaborate 3 competition offers UK-registered business-led consortia a share of up to £20 million in grant funding for late-stage collaborative R&D that develops and enables manufacture of zero emission vehicle technologies, with applications closing 16 September 2026.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: Grant requests between £2.5 million and £20 million per project, from a total fund of up to £20 … Deadline: Sep 16, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Dual-use Aviation Systems and Autonomy 2026: Innovate UK Grant Competition for Collaborative Delivery

Innovate UK is funding collaborative UK projects to develop dual-use aviation technologies for civil and defence use, with a competition-wide budget of up to £10 million and expected project-level requests of £300,000–£1.25 million.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Total competition fund £10,000,000; project grant request £300,000 to £1,250,000 Deadline: Jun 3, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets 2026: Up to £4.5 Million for UK AI Benchmark and Dataset Projects

Innovate UK is funding collaborations that create benchmark datasets, curated annotated datasets, and evaluation harnesses for priority AI missions in health, life sciences, and advanced materials.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Up to £4.5 million Deadline: May 27, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Full ADOPT Grant: Round Seven

A UK England-only ADOPT competition for established farming, growing or forestry businesses to fund collaborative on-farm trials up to £100,000 project costs in support of innovation adoption.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Up to £5,000,000 total competition funding Deadline: Jun 3, 2026 Location: England and United Kingdom

Future offshore wind technologies: industrial research (research organisations)

UKRI/Innovate UK is running an open competition for UK-registered businesses and partners to deliver industrial research in offshore wind, with up to 70% funding support for micro and small enterprises and total eligible project costs between £150,000 and £1.5 million.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Up to £10,000,000 across both strands Deadline: Jun 3, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Growth Cohorts: Next generation low carbon concrete cohort entry

Innovate UK is running a two-stage Growth Cohorts competition for UK startups, SMEs, and businesses building concrete decarbonisation solutions, with a £50,000 stage 1 grant application and further stage 2 funding for successful participants.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: £50,000 for stage 1 entry round (up to £1,000,000 available in stage 1) Deadline: Jul 8, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Innovate UK Scaling Performance of Quantum Computing Hardware CR&D 2026: Share of £33 Million for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Hardware

Innovate UK is investing up to £33 million in collaborative R&D grants of £1 million to £3.5 million to develop device-level hardware and software for universal fault-tolerant quantum computers, with applications closing 18 September 2026.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: Up to £33 million total; £1 million to £3.5 million grant request per project Deadline: Sep 18, 2026 Location: United Kingdom