Aerospace grants in the United Kingdom

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Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.

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Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.

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Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.

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Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.

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Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.

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Funds Northern Ireland businesses accessing knowledge-provider expertise through GBP 5K innovation vouchers.

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Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.

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Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

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Awards $25,000 for a UAV navigation system that survives GNSS jamming and spoofing.

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Funds counter-UAS prototype developers competing for IDEaS Sandbox monetary prizes.

Invests up to $1 million in seed-stage uncrewed-systems and air-mobility startups.

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Runs a climatetech accelerator that pairs carbon-materials startups with ExxonMobil for validation and collaboration, including a needs-based stipend to support participation.

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Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.

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Funds three to five teams from a $58 million pool to build defense-grade RF systems that use optical timing instead of conventional microwave generation.

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Funds teams building autonomous wildfire sensing and suppression systems for faster emergency response.

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Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

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Pays SMEs a fixed EUR60,000 grant to run a six-month market feasibility project testing whether their innovation can be commercialised in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.

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Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.

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Pays SMEs and startups a 60,000-euro grant to test whether their solution is viable in a target overseas market.

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Funds cross-sector consortia building 'talent ecosystems' that connect researcher training with employer needs to make early research careers more attractive.

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Funds consortia running youth science-engagement programmes or researcher-public dialogue events under one of two chosen tracks to boost trust in science.

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Funds a group of 3-6 cities to jointly run a year-long 'Science comes to town' public-engagement programme, including the EUCYS and EU TalentOn competitions.

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Funds part of the cost of talent-recruitment programmes that give postdoctoral researchers a two-phase path to a stable research career in Europe.

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Funds part of the cost of running new or existing doctoral training programmes at universities and research organisations.