Latest UK Funding Opportunities

Published: November 19, 2024

Funding and business support to accelerate your agri-tech ambition. The UK Agri-Tech Centre can accelerate your global agri-tech ambitions and drive impactful and rapid change, connecting you to expertise, networks, facilities and funding opportunities   

We provide a range of services to help you secure funding grants and deliver a successful project from start to finish. Our expertise ranges from bid writing and consortium building to project management and access to our facilities. Our team is here to support you and your business with your next agri-tech solution.

Read on to find out about current funding opportunities to help accelerate your business’ aspirations:

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Funding Opportunity: Launchpad: agri-tech and food technology, Mid & North Wales – MFA

The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Your business must use the funding to grow your innovation activities in the agri-tech and food technology cluster in Mid and North Wales, both during and after the project. For this competition, Mid and North Wales consists of Ceredigion, Powys, Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham.

Deadline: 11 December 2025

Funding Opportunity: Water Breakthrough Challenge 5: Catalyst Stream

The Catalyst Stream aims to encourage new ways of working that go beyond business-as-usual innovation practices in the water sector increasing and improving collaboration and building partnerships from within and outside the water sector. Individual entries to the Catalyst Stream can bid for funding from £150,000 to £2 million.

Deadline: 6 January 2025

Funding Opportunity: AI solutions to develop AI competencies in key sectors

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million for Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to support AI upskilling in BridgeAI key sectors. This funding is from Innovate UK.

The aim of this competition is to develop responsible and ethical AI personalised learning solutions, to support AI competency development in the key sectors of:

  • construction
  • transport and logistics
  • creative industries
  • agriculture and food processing

Deadline: 29 January 2025

Funding Opportunity: Funded access to Catapults and RTOs to support growth and scaling

The RTO Catapult Grant scheme is only open to eligible SMEs, in receipt of the Innovate UK Business Growth support service, where the need has been identified by an innovation & growth specialist as part of the action planning process.

Deadline: Rolling deadline

If you have any questions about the above funding opportunities or want to find out how we can make your ambitions a reality, get in touch at: info@ukagritechcentre.com.

These funding opportunities were last updated on 19/11/24