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Engineering Biology Collaborative R&D: Round 3

UK businesses can apply for funding to lead collaborative industrial research projects developing and scaling innovative engineering biology products, processes and services. Projects must address a genuine commercialisation or scale-up constraint, involve a named downstream end user and demonstrate a clear route to commercial growth in the UK. Applications can address health, agriculture and food, chemicals and materials, low-carbon fuels, waste and environmental applications, or cross-cutting technology and service development.

Award
Total eligible project costs must be between £750,000 and £2.5 million.
Collaborative

Next deadline

Date to be confirmed

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What it funds

UK businesses can apply for funding to lead collaborative industrial research projects developing and scaling innovative engineering biology products, processes and services. Projects must address a genuine commercialisation or scale-up constraint, involve a named downstream end user and demonstrate a clear route to commercial growth in the UK. Applications can address health, agriculture and food, chemicals and materials, low-carbon fuels, waste and environmental applications, or cross-cutting technology and service development.

Who it suits

Business-led consortia developing commercially focused engineering biology innovations that are sufficiently mature for industrial research, validation, scale-up, demonstration and preparation for market adoption.

  • Life sciences & health
  • Clean energy & net zero
  • Manufacturing & materials
  • Late stage & scale-up

Programme specifications

Award band£1m+
FunderOther funders
RegionUK-wide
Partners requiredYes
Next deadlineTo be confirmed
Key sectors
Life sciences & healthClean energy & net zeroManufacturing & materials

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