Innovate UK: Contracts for Innovation - Clean Air, Phase 3

Published on May 28, 2025

Innovate UK: Contracts for Innovation - Clean Air, Phase 3

Organisations can apply for a share of £800,000, inclusive of VAT, to further develop clean air pre-commercial innovations. They must conduct extended field trials, with potential future customers and end users, to enhance the solution.

  • Competition opens: Monday 19 May 2025
  • Online briefing event: 23 May 2025 -  join at 11.30am
  • Competition closes: Wednesday 25 June 2025 11:00am

This is a Contracts for Innovation competition funded by Innovate UK.

The aim of the competition is to conduct extended field trials to evaluate and enhance any emerging technological solution in the clean air domain. The technology may be focused on monitoring, mitigating or extracting air pollution to safeguard human health.

This phase 3 Contracts for Innovation competition is a standalone competition open to any eligible applicants with existing pre-commercial innovations which might contribute to cleaner air.

Your project

Projects must:

  • start on 1 September 2025
  • end by 30 June 2026
  • last up to 10 months
  • have total costs of between £75,000 and £100,000, inclusive of VAT

    Your technology must relate to:

    • monitoring
    • mitigating
    • extracting harmful air pollution

Find out more and apply!