Your business could benefit from a wide range of opportunities to get funding for your innovative ideas from Innovate UK.
These are our new competitions that opened in January and February 2016.
New vaccines for global epidemics: development and manufacture
Opens: 29 February 2016
Registration closes: 27 April 2016
Closes: 4 May 2016
The Department of Health is to invest up to £10 million in two competition streams in line with the priorities identified by the UK Vaccine Network.
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North Wales photonics Launchpad
Opens: 22 February 2016
Closes: 6 April 2016
Investment of up to £500,000 in innovative research and development projects centred on the emerging cluster of photonics, electro-optics, and opto-electronics businesses in North Wales.
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Detection and treatment of hearing loss and tinnitus (SBRI)
Opens: 21 January 2016
Closes: 21 April 2016
This Ministry of Defence's (MOD) Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition seeks proof of concept research proposals to develop solutions that monitor, diagnose, treat and restore noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus. £500,000 of funding is available for this Phase 1 competition. Up to £500,000 will also be made available for Phase 2. Funding will be considered on a per-project basis.
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Synthetic biology for novel materials (SBRI)
Opens: 21 January 2016
Closes: 14 April 2016
This Ministry of Defence's (MOD) Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition seeks ambitious concepts to exploit the power of biological systems to make complex materials and the fundamental tools of molecular biology to manipulate such systems. £750,000 of funding is available for this Phase 1 competition. Up to £3 million will also be made available for Phase 2. Funding will be considered on a per-project basis.
See full Synthetic biology for novel materials competition
Surface engineering and coating technologies for high-value manufacturing
Opens: 11 January 2016
Registration closes: 9 March 2016
Closes: 16 March 2016
Investment of up to £2 million in technical feasibility studies to stimulate innovative new concepts and applications in surface engineering and coatings, positioning the sector to identify potential areas for further innovation, and address the challenge areas for future growth.
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APC5: Driving UK productivity through low carbon propulsion innovation
Opens: 11 January 2016
Registration closes: 23 March 2016
Closes: 30 March 2016
The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), in partnership with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Innovate UK is to invest up to £20 million per project in collaborative research and development funding to support the development of low carbon, low emission automotive propulsion technologies.
See full APC5: Driving UK productivity through low carbon propulsion innovation competition
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