UKRI open call for research and innovation ideas to address Covid-19

There is no closing date – proposals can be submitted at any time.

Proposals are invited for short-term projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak.

UKRI will support excellent proposals of up to 18 months duration which meet at least one of the following:

• New research or innovation with a clear impact pathway that has the potential (within the period of the award) to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding of, and response to, the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts.
• Supports the manufacture and/or wide scale adoption of an intervention with significant potential
• Gathers critical data and resources quickly for future research use

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Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

ISCF: Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging

Part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Wave 3, this Challenge will develop a new generation of advanced and sustainable plastic packaging to reduce single-use plastics, increase recyclability and the amount of plastic packaging that is recycled and ultimately reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the environment.  Government is prepared to invest up to £60 million in this Challenge from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund until 2024, with additional funding of up to £149 million from industry. The Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge aims to establish the UK as a leading innovator in sustainable plastic packaging for consumer products, delivering cleaner growth across the supply chain, with a dramatic reduction in plastic waste entering the environment by 2025.

Your project must aim to:

• help make the plastics packaging supply chain more circular
• deliver the targets of the UK Plastics Pact
• improve on current state-of-the-art plastic packaging, while still demonstrating practical and close-to-market solutions

Projects are welcomed across the following areas: materials; design; technology or process; business model or behaviour change. Your project must showcase close-to-market solutions that go beyond the current state-of-the-art and deliver a more circular economy for plastic packaging.

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EUREKA collaborative R&D: advanced materials, March 2020

Closing date: 30.06.20

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is investing up to £1 million to fund collaborative business led research and development (R&D) projects. These must result in a new product, industrial process or service. Projects must be innovative and involve a technological risk.

Your collaborative R&D proposal must focus on one of these 4 themes:

• Semiconductors and display.
• Secondary batteries and sensor technology, including energy storage.
• Carbon industry and chemistry, including:
  • lightweight materials, composites and recycling of plastics
  • nano materials and plastic materials
• Machinery, robots, and metal industry.

Your project must focus on industrial research.

Your project must aim to develop one of the following:

• innovative products
• technology-based applications
• technology-based services

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