Food Tech grants in the United Kingdom

Between cycles

Supports unconventional pre-trading Scottish ventures, including sole traders and partnerships, through the Wild Card EDGE grant pathway.

Between cycles

Supports Scottish companies led by young directors through a grant-only path in the Young EDGE category for early business development.

Closed

Supports United Kingdom large-team bioscience projects through collaborative grants for high-impact innovation.

Closed

Supports early-career United Kingdom bioscientists with fellowships that build independent innovation leadership.

Closed

Supports United Kingdom teams through follow-on funding to move discovery innovation toward commercialization.

Closed

Supports United Kingdom farming innovators through Defra public-private collaboration that strengthens practical innovation outcomes.

Closed

Funds feasibility studies for satellite-enabled food-security services.

Closed

Provides MassChallenge United Kingdom Accelerator participants with growth coaching, customer discovery, and investor preparation.

Closed

Funds FEIF testing grantees scaling everyday-economy innovation projects through follow-on grants.

Closed

Funds Greater Manchester businesses testing everyday-economy innovation projects through FEIF grants.

Open

Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

Open

Funds two €6M research consortia that quantify agrobiodiversity's payoff and build the tools and finance to help farmers adopt it profitably.

Open

Funds a single €3M contract for policy researchers to run advisory and benchmarking work that helps EU governments grow their bioeconomies — not a lab grant.

Open

Funds industrial consortia that recycle multilayer plastic food packaging back into food-contact-safe plastic, at scale.

Funds EU bio-based innovation projects with up to Euro20 million per topic.

Open

Funds one €20M innovation project that scales alternative proteins, oils, fibres or specialty carbohydrates into safe, accepted food ingredients.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to map the skills young people and workers need for the green transition in one high-impact sector and how to teach them.

Open

Supports scaling deep-tech for soil health, sustainability, and resilience of EU agriculture.

Open

Funds one coordination project to run the AU-EU food-security research partnership and seed-fund African agri-food startups.

Scheduled

Funds two €6.4M projects that turn soil-friendly biotechnology into scalable, safe and market-ready farm solutions.

Scheduled

Funds two €8M projects that scale agroforestry across landscapes and make healthier soil a practical, profitable choice.

Scheduled

Funds one €4.75M action linking research agendas, initiatives and practitioners across Europe's food, farming, forestry, fisheries and bioeconomy sectors.

Scheduled

Funds €7.2–7.7M projects that turn seafood waste and by-products into circular, profitable and lower-impact ocean value chains.

Scheduled

Funds two €7M projects to turn underused biomass and bio-waste into valuable products through local platforms, better logistics and circular business models.