Canada-UK Collaborative R&D

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million for collaboration with Canadian SMEs on joint R&D projects.

Competition opens: Monday 4 November 2024
Competition closes: Wednesday 16 April 2025 11:00am


Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) to invest up to £3 million in innovation projects.

The aim of this competition is to stimulate the development and implementation of innovative technologies across a range of sectors and technology areas.

This call for proposals is open to organisations from Canada and the UK who wish to form project consortia to perform collaborative projects focused on developing innovative products processes, or technology based services in the area of life sciences, digital and emerging, and sustainability and net zero technologies.

UK registered organisations must apply through the Innovation Funding Service (IFS) portal to Innovate UK.

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.

This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated in this Innovate UK competition brief. We cannot guarantee other government or third party sites will always show the correct competition information.

The project must be independently selected by both Innovate UK and NRC IRAP to be awarded funding.

Funding type: Grant

Project size:

UK partners grant funding request can be up to £300,000 per project. The total funding request for all Canadian partners combined can be up to CA$500,000 for each application.

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