Aerospace grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Aerospace grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for aircraft, propulsion, avionics, drones and advanced air mobility from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Aerospace in the United Kingdom come first.
Showing 49-72 of 254 grants
Fast-track Enabling innovative air mobility (IAM) / Vertical take-off and landing capable aircraft (VCA) (crewed and uncrewed) operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds innovation projects on vertiport management, automated flight and IFR procedures for crewed and uncrewed air taxis.
Fast-track Extending U-space eco-system
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds innovation projects building 5G-based communication, navigation and surveillance capabilities for drones and vertiports.
Fast-track U3 U-space advanced services and CNS capabilities
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds innovation projects building advanced drone traffic-management services for shared airspace with crewed aircraft.
Fundamental research for other topics
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds curiosity-driven, TRL0 fundamental research on air traffic management ideas outside the other listed priorities.
Ground Demonstration of Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Architectures for the Ultra-efficient SMR aircraft
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds an innovation project that ground-demonstrates hybrid-electric propulsion architectures for an ultra-efficient SMR aircraft.
Highly automated ATM for all airspace users
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on detect-and-avoid sensors, drone integration, space-launch coordination and robust satellite navigation for ATM.
Hydrogen powered aircraft concepts and key technologies integration and impact assessment
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds one team integrating and testing fully electric hydrogen fuel-cell and direct hydrogen combustion aircraft concepts, up to TRL 4.
Icing in the context of sustainable aviation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one project researching aircraft ice-detection and protection technology for the next generation of low-carbon aircraft.
Increased automation assistance for the pilot for ATM tasks
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on single-pilot operations and cockpit automation that assists pilots with air traffic management tasks.
Innovative air mobility and services for sustainable and smart urban, peri-urban transport – Societal Readiness pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two projects, worth up to EUR 5 million each, testing drone cargo delivery in cities and building the planning rules cities need to allow it.
Innovative light weight and reliable liquid hydrogen tank
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds a research project that develops and demonstrates a lightweight, reliable liquid hydrogen tank for hydrogen-powered aircraft.
Integration of the next generation aircraft for zero/low emission aviation
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on integrating hydrogen, battery-electric and hybrid-electric aircraft into European air traffic management.
Investigate quantum sensing and computing applied to ATM
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research exploring quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography and quantum sensing for air traffic management.
Key Technologies for Loads Control Lidar for Ultra-efficient SMR aircraft
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds one team maturing lidar sub-systems for a feed-forward gust load alleviation system on a next-generation single-aisle aircraft, up to TRL 5.
Next generation aircraft autonomy technologies for cockpit / pilot assistance applications
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two research projects, worth up to EUR 3.5 million each, developing next-generation autonomous cockpit technology for aircraft flown by a single pilot without a co-pilot.
Next generation ATS platform for airport operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds industrial research building AI-enabled, cyber-resilient next-generation airport air traffic control platforms.
Next generation ATS platforms for en-route and TMA operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds industrial research building AI-enabled, cyber-resilient next-generation air traffic control platforms.
Next generation testing capabilities in strategic EU wind tunnels
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one research project up to EUR 15 million to upgrade Europe's strategic wind tunnels with new instruments and test methods for climate-neutral aircraft.
Operational stakeholders' group to support the deployment of Clean Aviation aircraft concepts and technologies
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Pays a support action to convene airline and airport operators who assess how Clean Aviation's new aircraft concepts and technologies will actually work in service from 2035.
Research to help shape the future regulatory framework for a DES
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research generating the technical evidence EASA needs to regulate automation, AI and safety in future air traffic management.
Smart airports, airports as multimodal nodes and passenger experience
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on smart, connected airports that integrate landside, network and multimodal transport data.
SPIN: Rise
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Offers early-career deep-tech researchers a free venture-creation and pre-incubation programme with training, coaching and a European bootcamp.
Superconducting motor windings for a fully electric hydrogen fuel cell powered aircraft
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds a research project that develops and demonstrates superconducting motor windings for a fully electric hydrogen fuel cell aircraft.
Transformation to trajectory-based operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds industrial research building the flight-planning and network systems needed for trajectory-based air traffic operations.