Resource efficiency for resilience & sustainability FS
Award: Share of up to £1.1 million
Programme: Innovate UK
Closing date: 3 November 2025
Overview
Innovate UK will invest up to £1.1 million in innovative feasibility studies aimed at driving the UK’s materials and manufacturing sectors toward being net zero, resource-efficient, resilient, and technologically advanced. Projects should demonstrate how sectors can become more sustainable, circular, and robust, with a possible focus on seaweed processing innovations.
Scope & Themes
Projects should focus on one or both of these themes:
- Theme 1: Resource efficient and sustainable materials & manufacturing — e.g. using bio-based feedstocks, designing for resource efficiency, supply chain resilience, circular reuse, and advanced manufacturing methods.
- Theme 2: Seaweed processing — e.g. testing new or modified processing technologies, improving yield or value of products from UK-harvested/cultivated algae.
Projects must target lab-scale, small-volume testing or R&D.
Eligibility
- Total project costs must be between £10,000 and £25,000.
- Projects must start 1 February 2026 and end by 31 March 2026.
- Only UK registered businesses can lead.
- Subcontractors allowed (up to 50% of total eligible costs); overseas subcontractors require justification.
- All project work must take place in the UK, and exploitation of results should happen in/from the UK.
- Projects must always start on the first of a month; cannot start until the Grant Offer Letter is approved.
- Projects will be ineligible if they exceed the Minimal Financial Assistance (MFA) limit or fail other subsidy/compliance rules.
Award & Project Duration
- Award: Share of up to £1.1 million*
*covering 100% of eligible project costs (subject to MFA rules).
- Project Duration: 1 to 2 months.
Key Dates
- Closes: 3rd November 2025
