Hardware grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Hardware grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for electronics, devices, sensors, prototyping and hardware startups 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 Hardware in the United Kingdom come first.
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Rapid Transfusion Diagnostics
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom medical teams developing point-of-care blood diagnostics for use in field operations.
Rapid Transfusion Diagnostics: Optimising Safety on Deployed Operations
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports innovative point-of-care blood testing devices for military medical operations in deployed settings.
Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Collaborative industrial research for quantum computing hardware and associated software.
Scaling Supply Chains for Quantum Enabled Sensing and PNT
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK business-led consortia developing supply chains for quantum enabled sensing and positioning, navigation and timing technologies.
Strathclyde Inspire Innovation Challenge
🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom
Supports University of Strathclyde students with early startup ideas through a competition that rewards market-ready commercial thinking.
UK-Switzerland Collaborative R&D
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK businesses doing joint R&D in specific technology areas with Swiss partners through Innovate UK bilateral competition rounds.
UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration: CHERI IKC
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Establish an Innovation and Knowledge Centre for CHERI adoption and commercialisation.
Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Electric Power
🇬🇧DfT · United Kingdom
Build and demonstrate battery-electric vessels or novel shore power systems.
Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Energy Efficiency
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK business-led collaborations developing innovative vessel energy efficiency technologies under the ZEVI 2 clean maritime programme.
Foundational Economy Innovation Fund Scale Up Phase
GMCA · United Kingdom
Funds FEIF testing grantees scaling everyday-economy innovation projects through follow-on grants.
Foundational Economy Innovation Fund Testing Phase
GMCA · United Kingdom
Funds Greater Manchester businesses testing everyday-economy innovation projects through FEIF grants.
Parkwalk EIS University Funds
🇬🇧Parkwalk Advisors · United Kingdom
Supports Parkwalk EIS and university founders with strategic innovation funds for early ventures.
STFC Bridging for Innovators
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom university and deep tech teams by bridging research outputs to follow-on funding.
Innowwide — Next
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.
Eureka Network Projects — Permanent
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers open access collaboration through Eureka Network Projects so small enterprises can join international innovation groups.
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships — ISERD)
🇪🇺ISERD · Israel
Supports internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers placed in Israeli institutions to build independent research careers through EU mobility fellowships.
Advanced Photonic Devices and Circuits
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds six €3–5M research projects that make integrated photonic circuits more capable, compact and power-efficient.
AI Data Centres: Efficient Cooling, Power and Operations
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €10M projects that cut the energy and climate footprint of AI data centres through better cooling, power and operations.
Decentralised and Sustainable AI Processing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €17.5M research projects that spread AI processing across sustainable, secure edge, cloud and HPC resources.
Digital Technology Foresight Forum
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €4M coordination action to spot future digital technologies and connect the people who can bring them into use.
European Leadership in Global Digital Standards
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €7M action that helps European experts lead global digital standards and gives SMEs and researchers a stronger voice in ICT rule-making.
Virtual Worlds and Web 4.0 Ecosystem
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €3M coordination action to build an open, trustworthy and competitive European Virtual Worlds and Web 4.0 ecosystem.
Virtual Worlds: Immersive Hardware and Haptics
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €4.8–5.6M research projects building smaller, smarter and more realistic hardware for inclusive virtual-world experiences.
Horizon EV Fire Safety in Confined Spaces
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €8M project to prevent, detect and contain electric-vehicle fires in garages, depots, ferryboats and other confined spaces.