Apply for a share of up to £8.5 million to develop and scale Engineering Biology platforms, products and services
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £8.5 million from the UKRI’s Engineering Biology Programme.
The funding total is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received.
The aim of this competition is to deliver business led research and development that will:
lead to new engineering biology products, processes or services
de-risk the adoption of new engineering biology technologies that offer high market potential
Your project must focus on developing or applying engineering biology solutions to one or more of the following themes:
Health
Agriculture and Food
Chemicals and materials
Low Carbon fuels
Waste and environment
Cross cutting technology, service development
This competition has a two stage assessment process. If your application passes the first stage of assessment, you may be invited to attend an interview, where you must give a presentation.
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition has a funding limit, so we may not be able to fund all the proposed projects. It may be the case that your project scores highly but we are still unable to fund it.
Our experience from similar competitions suggests that you could have up to 20% chance of success.
We consider a range of factors when determining whether to provide funding to applicants. This includes an assessment of prior conduct, such as any outstanding payments owed to Innovate UK or UKRI. Such factors may influence the funding decision, potentially resulting in a refusal of funding or an award subject to additional scrutiny.
We also reserve the right to adjust funding allocations for any of our competitions. This may be in response to changes in policy, portfolio funding considerations or broader government funding decisions.
Funding type
Grant
Project size
Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £750,000 and £2.5 million.
Accessibility and Inclusion
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to making our application process accessible to everyone. This includes making reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability or a long-term condition and face barriers applying to us.
You can contact us at any time to ask for guidance.
We recommend you contact us at least 15 working days before this competition’s closing date to allow us to put the most suitable support in place. The support we can provide may be limited if you contact us close to the competition deadline.
You can contact Innovate UK by email or call 0300 321 4357. Our phone lines are open from 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 5pm UK time, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).