Food Tech grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Food Tech grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for alternative proteins, food safety, nutrition, processing and supply-chain innovation 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 Food Tech in the United Kingdom come first.
Showing 49-72 of 272 grants
EIC Accelerator Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds late stage deep tech start ups and small businesses with combined non dilutive and growth support across technology fields.
EIC Pathfinder Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
Bioengineering in the Space Environment
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 200,000 euros to study bioengineering business ideas that use microgravity.
Boosting data availability and AI solutions in food for consumers and food service professionals
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that build generative AI tools for food purchasing, preparation and preservation, with dedicated support packages for AI startups and SMEs.
Boosting the competitiveness of protein crops in Europe
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds innovation projects that make European-grown protein crops more competitive, from farm-level breeding and machinery to new value chains and by-product uses.
CBE JU 2026 Call for Project Proposals
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds EU bio-based innovation projects with up to Euro20 million per topic.
CBE JU: Nutritional Food Ingredient Resilience
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M innovation project that scales alternative proteins, oils, fibres or specialty carbohydrates into safe, accepted food ingredients.
Digital technologies and energy transition in fisheries and/or aquaculture
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds demonstration projects using AI, IoT and robotics to cut energy use and emissions in fisheries and aquaculture across at least three countries in one sea basin.
Diversifying aquaculture production with emphasis on low-trophic species
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that grow EU aquaculture into new low-trophic species such as algae and shellfish, using lower-impact feed and farming methods.
EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN) – Call for Startups 2026
🇪🇺EIT Food · European Union
Awards up to €50,000 to top agrifood and foodtech startups after a hub-based accelerator.
Enhancing plant protein production to bolster the resilience of agricultural systems and EU self-sufficiency in plant protein used as feed
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D to grow more plant protein (like legumes) in the EU for animal feed, cutting reliance on imported soya.
EU global footprint on soils
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a framework to measure how the EU's demand for food, feed, fibre and biomass imports degrades soil health outside Europe, especially in Latin America and Africa.
Food Accelerator Network (FAN)
🇪🇺EIT Food · European Union
Offers EIT Food's Food Accelerator Network for agrifood startups across Europe to validate and prepare market-ready products.
Fostering competences for the green transition
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
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.
Green Transition Food Processing Africa
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds African and European food-business entrepreneurs through a mentoring and cascading-grants scheme for greener, safer food processing.
Horizon Agrifood: Farm Biodiversity for Food Security
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M research consortia that quantify agrobiodiversity's payoff and build the tools and finance to help farmers adopt it profitably.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Policy Support Hub
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
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.
Horizon Packaging: Food-Contact Plastic Recycling
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds industrial consortia that recycle multilayer plastic food packaging back into food-contact-safe plastic, at scale.
Innovation for Resilient Organic Farming
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds practical innovations, evidence and knowledge exchange that improve the competitiveness and resilience of organic farming.
Integrating a holistic perspective in microbiome research for resilient, competitive and sustainable food systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research consortia, including businesses and startups, that study microbiomes across plants, humans and environments to unlock new food-system applications.
Making food systems more resilient to food safety risks through the deployment of technological solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D that turns existing food-safety science — molecular methods, genomics, photonics — into deployable tools against food fraud and safety risks.
Nutrients produced by microorganisms utilising primarily CO2 from the air, with the support of biotechnology
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds companies and researchers scaling up precision-fermentation microorganisms that turn captured CO2 into food nutrients.
Nutrition and Mental Health
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research linking diet and nutrients to mental health, aiming at evidence and guidance for policymakers and health professionals.