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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.