Canada-UK Collaborative R&D

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.

Projects can focus on one or more of the following:

• Life Sciences, including engineering biology, biomanufacturing, and agricultural technologies
• Digital and emerging technologies, including, quantum, artificial intelligence, semiconductors
• Sustainability and net zero, including critical minerals, ocean sciences and technologies, clean energy technologies

Projects must have a grant funding request of no greater than £300,000 allocated to UK organisations, have a total grant funding request for Canadian partners of no greater than CA$500,000, last between 12 and 24 months, start by 1 September 2025, end by 31 August 2027. The majority of the project work must be undertaken in the UK and Canada.

Application deadline: 16 April 2025, 11:00am. Find out more about it here