Aerospace grants in the United Kingdom

Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.

Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.

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

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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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.

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

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

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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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.

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

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Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.

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Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.