Inclusive and accessible sport
European Space Agency (ESA)
The tenderer will develop space-enabled applications and services related to improving inclusivity and accessibility in sports. Funding is worth up to €60,000 per contract to cover up to 75 per cent of eligible activities.
Closing date: 20 Jan 23
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Made smarter innovation - sustainable smart factory
Innovate UK
This supports the development of digital innovations to improve the resource efficiency and energy efficiency of manufacturing processes in factories. The total budget is worth up to £20 million and projects may last for between one and two years.
Closing date: 26 Jan 23 (Forecast)
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Global business innovation programme visit to South Korea - immersive technology
Innovate UK
This enables UK SMEs to take part in a visit to South Korea in order to find new international partners and identify opportunities for technology collaboration related to immersive technology. Funding covers flights, accommodation, in-market travel and conference fees.
Closing date: 16 Feb 23 (Forecast)
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Open call for innovation - defence rapid impact innovation
Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)
This supports defence innovation projects, which have a realistic prospect of achieving an impact within a 3 year time frame from the completion of the project. No funding limit is specified, however grants are typically worth between £100,000 and £350,000.
Closing date: 22 Feb 23
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Open call for innovation - security rapid impact innovation
Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)
This supports innovative ideas to improve the defence or security of the UK. No funding limit is specified, however grants are typically worth between £100,000 and £350,000.
Closing date: 22 Feb 23
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Horizon Europe: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
This supports projects that set out a credible pathway to contributing to the objective of a human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies. The budget is €201.5 million. Grants are worth up to €27m each.
Closing date: 29 Mar 23
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Request for proposals - High-Realism VR Avatars in Virtual Work Settings
Meta Research
Meta invites applications for its controls that matter and considering everyone - high-realism VR avatars in virtual work settings. This supports case studies and examples related to: •how teams build controls that preserve future user agency over their data, such as the realistic avatar itself and…
Closing date: 31 Mar 23 (Forecast)
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Defence and Security Accelerator - telexistence
Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)
This supports innovative projects to develop a complete telexistence system, integrating telepresence, robotic and haptic technologies on to a single platform. Grants are worth up to £400,000 each for a maximum duration of 10 months.
Closing date: 06 Apr 23 (Forecast)
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Open call for innovation - emerging innovations
Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)
*** This opportunity is temporarily closed. The following information is subject to change. This call encourages proposals across a wide range of technology areas with the aim of finding new and novel opportunities for these to be exploited across defence or security. The majority of successful projects cost between £50,000 and £100,000 and last between three and 10 months. ***
Closing date: 25 Apr 23 (Forecast)
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Towards Trustworthy Products in AR, VR, and Smart Devices request for proposals
Meta Research
Meta is soliciting proposals for a third year in a row to help accelerate research in these fields with the hope of helping to foster a world of trustworthy mixed-reality and smart device products. There are fairly robust research fields in traditional computing paradigms from cloud to mobile, and…
Closing date: 11 May 23 (Forecast)
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Drucker challenge essay contest
Peter Drucker Society Europe
This recognises an essay addressing topics related to passion economy, in which individuals are neither wage slaves nor gig serfs, but engage with digital technologies to leverage their own unique aptitudes and passions to forge a livelihood on their own terms. The first prize includes €2,000 and second and third prize include €1,000 each.
Closing date: 31 May 23 (Forecast)
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Simulation Academy Novice Research Grant
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation
The goal of the SAEMF/Simulation Academy Novice Research Grant is to promote junior and new investigators in simulation-based research and scholarship. With this goal in mind, we welcome a broad range of projects that increase the body of knowledge in simulation-based endeavors, educational…
Closing date: 01 Aug 23 (Forecast)
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Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship - EMEA
Microsoft Research
The Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship is a global program that identifies and empowers the next generation of exceptional computing research talent. Microsoft recognizes the value of diversity in computing and aims to increase the pipeline of talent receiving advanced degrees in computing-related…
Closing date: 07 Jun 23 (Forecast)
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Focused Research Award and Faculty Innovation Award
Sony
As part of one of the world's most innovative and recognizable brands, we are committed to support university research and innovation in the U.S., Canada, and select European countries, while also fostering partnerships with university faculty and researchers. Both the Faculty Innovation Award and…
Closing date: 15 Sep 23 (Forecast)
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Meta Research PhD Fellowship Program
Meta Research
The Meta Research PhD Fellowship is a global program designed to encourage and support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant research in areas related to computer science and engineering at an accredited university. Available Fellowships: Applied Statistics AR/VR…
Closing date: 20 Sep 23 (Forecast)
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Mindset extended reality for digital mental health - strand two
Innovate UK
This ams to develop digital therapeutic extended reality (XR) solutions to provide mental health care services. Grants are worth between £100,000 and £250,000 each for between six and 24 months.
Closing date: 12 Oct 23 (Forecast)
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Extended reality for digital mental health
Innovate UK
This supports R&D projects that develop digital therapeutic extended reality solutions to provide mental health care services. Total project costs may be between £50,000 and £100,000 for up to six months for feasibility projects and between £100,000 and £250,000 for up to two years for industrial research projects.
Closing date: 12 Oct 23 (Forecast)
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Future Workforce and Training (FWT) programme PhDs
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)
This offers PhD opportunities that will bring together cross-cutting science and technology that will enable users across defence to understand and develop robust or novel approaches to achieving superiority through our people. Up to 10 PhDs are expected to be funded.
Closing date: 25 Nov 23 (Forecast)
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Google Research Scholar Program
The Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google. The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by…
Closing date: 01 Dec 23 (Forecast)
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Horizon Europe: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
This supports projects that set out a credible pathway to contributing to resilient, inclusive, just, healthy and green rural, coastal and urban communities. The budget is €137.5 million. Grants are worth up to €60m each.
Closing date: 28 Feb 24
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Adobe Systems Inc.
The Adobe Research Fellowship recognizes outstanding graduate students anywhere in the world carrying out exceptional research in areas of computer science important to Adobe. This year, we will be awarding fellowships to graduate students working in the areas of computer graphics, computer vision…