Digital Dairy Chain

Funder: Horizon Europe

Deadline: 24 September 2025

The European Commission has pre-published all of the 2025 Horizon Europe Work Programmes, which list the funding opportunities under the 2025 call topics.

No matter your field – whether you’re a business, university, research institute, charity, or not-for-profit – you could be eligible to apply for Horizon Europe funding to advance your cutting-edge research and innovation, fostering lasting impact and meaningful change.

Funder: Scotland Beyond Net Zero

Deadline: 5pm, Friday 23rd May 2025.

The goal of the seed funding scheme is to foster collaborations and partnerships which develop co-created research in support of net zero in Scotland. We are focussed on six priority research themes: built environment, food, finance, energy, natural systems and transport, though the fund is open to researchers working in a cross-thematic way.

The scheme is open to academics from participating universities.

Funder: DEFRA delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.

Deadline: Wednesday 25 June 2025 11:00am

The aim of this competition is to fund collaborative projects that will develop new solutions to support UK farming working towards achieving low emissions. These must address major on-farm or immediate post farmgate challenges or opportunities.

Funder: DEFRA delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.

Deadline: Wednesday 25 June 2025 11:00am

The aim of this competition is to fund collaborative industrial research projects to unlock the benefits of precision breeding in developing ambitious new solutions leading to more sustainable and productive farming practices in at least one of the following two farming subsectors:

• horticultural crops
• arable crop

Funder: DEFRA delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.

Deadline: Wednesday 11 June 2025 11:00am

This competition is designed for farmers, growers and foresters based in England who are keen to test and trial new ideas or solutions on-farm and require support to develop a Full ADOPT Grant application.

Funder: DEFRA delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.

Deadline: Wednesday 25 June 2025 11:00am

The aim of this competition is to support innovative, on-farm trials or experiments to test ideas or solutions and demonstrate that they will address major on-farm or immediate post farmgate challenges or opportunities.

Funder: British Business Bank

Applications open all year round.

The fund aims to drive sustainable economic growth by supporting innovation and creating local opportunity for new and growing businesses across Scotland.

Funder: Innovate UK

Innovate UK is offering travel support for companies to attend consortia-building events in Europe. Our travel awards are an excellent mechanism for supporting companies who want to expand their networks across Europe and make an impact in collaborative international research and development projects.

Funder: The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking

Deadline: 17 September 2025

The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has published its Annual Work Programme for 2025, including information about the next call for project proposals.

Funder: North Lanarkshire Council and part-funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

Inspirent and CEIS are delighted to be delivering an 18-month programme of support to the Social Enterprise sector across North Lanarkshire.