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Battery Innovation Programme: Battery Skills Initiatives
Historical reference for Innovate UK's 2026 Battery Innovation Programme competition, which offered UK registered organisations grant support to establish or scale regional battery manufacturing skills initiatives, with up to £3.7 million available and project requests between £440,000 and £1.2 million.
CfI: Boosting Fathers' Engagement to Improve Child Outcomes
Innovate UK ran a phase 1 Contracts for Innovation competition for evidence-based interventions, products, tools, or service models that increase fathers' engagement in learning and child development. The closed cycle offered up to £2,000,000 in total, with individual phase 1 contracts between £200,000 and £500,000 inclusive of VAT.
Consumer Led Flexibility for the Clean Energy Superpower Mission 2026: Up to £3 Million for UK Clean-Energy Innovation Projects
Innovate UK is offering a share of up to £25 million for UK projects developing novel digital, AI, product or service solutions that can scale consumer-led electricity flexibility by 2030.
Contracts for Innovation: Cyber Scale in Critical Sectors (2026)
Historical reference for Innovate UK's closed 2026 Contracts for Innovation competition, which offered up to £3.5 million for cybersecurity solutions at TRL 7 to demonstrate, improve, and commercialise them in real critical-sector environments.
Contracts for Innovation: FOAK26 (DFT Rail Innovation, 2026-27)
Historical reference for Innovate UK and Department for Transport's closed FOAK26 Contracts for Innovation competition, which offered up to £4.3 million across eight rail challenges for high-maturity prototypes, field testing, and demonstrations.
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.
Drive35 Innovation Fund: Demonstrate 2 (UK Grant, 2026) — Historical Reference
Historical reference for the closed Innovate UK DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Demonstrate 2 competition, which offered a share of up to £33 million for UK late-stage zero-emission vehicle and automotive manufacturing demonstrators.
Dual-use Aviation Systems and Autonomy 2026: Innovate UK Grant Competition for Collaborative Delivery
Innovate UK offered collaborative UK projects funding to develop dual-use aviation technologies for civil and defence use, with a competition-wide budget of up to £10 million and project-level grant requests of £300,000–£1.25 million.
Dual-use aviation systems and autonomy 2026: Up to GBP 10 Million in Grant Funding for UK Organisations (Closed)
Historical reference for Innovate UK's closed 2026 competition supporting UK collaborations developing aviation technologies and systems for civil and military use cases.
Farming Innovation Programme Feasibility Round Five: A £15 Million Defra and Innovate UK Competition Funding Collaborative Agri-Innovation Studies of £200,000 to £500,000 — Closing 9 September 2026
Defra and Innovate UK will invest up to £15 million in collaborative feasibility studies costing £200,000 to £500,000 that test early-stage solutions to on-farm and immediate post-farmgate challenges benefiting farmers, growers and foresters in England.