Funding & Opportunities

Together with the University of the West of England, we run the Health Tech Accelerator Programme to provide up to 12 hours of free business support to small and medium-sized enterprises in the health and life science sector.

Health Tech Accelerator Programme

Support offered: Mentoring and business support (including planning and strategy, financial advice, market research, IP advice and bid writing); sector specific expertise; networking & academic/ industry collaboration opportunities

Stage of innovation: Any

Open to: Start-ups and SMEs based in the West of England who are looking to further develop novel products or services for the health and life science sector

Application deadline: Ongoing

UK Research & Innovationare offering rapid response for short term research and innovation projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Get funding for ideas that address Covid-19

Support offered: 80% of the full economic cost (fEC)

Open to: Anyone who is normally eligible for UKRI funding. You will need to show that you are able to start work within four weeks of the funding being confirmed.

Application deadline: Ongoing

Ethical Healthcare Consulting CIC are proud to offer the Minerva leadership programme, aimed at women in middle to senior positions working in a digital health and care environment who have the drive and ambition to make a difference and aspire to a more senior professional leadership role.

Minerva

Support offered: A self-reflective understanding and acceptance of your unique leadership style and strengths. The critical skills and insight into how you can develop as a leader now, and in the future. Personalised leadership coaching sessions. A place on all eight one-day modules throughout 2020-21. An introduction to action learning which will enable you to address complicated issues by working collaboratively. Lifelong membership of the Minerva alumni network.

Open to: Minerva is for women working in health technology or health and care data environment, who aspire to lead. You might come from a wide range of professional disciplines, for example you might be a programme manager, clinician, senior business analyst, developer, comms expert and so the list goes on – what’s more important is that you have the right appetite for a focused senior leaders development programme and a drive to succeed.

Application deadline: 17/04/2020

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million to respond to new and urgent needs in UK and global communities during and following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Business-led innovation in response to global disruption (de minimis)

Support offered: Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £20 million in innovation projects. You can claim 100% of your project costs up to the maximum of £50,000. These will be paid in advance of the project start date.

Application deadline: 17/04/2020

Opportunity to apply for a share of up to £25 million to deliver ambitious or disruptive R&D innovations that can make a significant impact on the UK economy.

Innovate UK Smart Grants: January 2020

Support offered: Duration between 6 and 18 months and total eligible project costs between £25,000 and £500,000: can be single or collaborative. Duration between 19 and 36 months and total eligible project costs between £25,000 and £2 million: must be collaborative.

Open to: Application must include at least one micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME). Applications can come from any area of technology and be applied to any part of the economy.

Application deadline: 22/04/2020

With support from the Wellcome Trust the University has funding available to support health related translational projects. TRACK funding is available to support projects which are at the stage of concept development. Please note other sources of funding available at University of Bristol to support projects in this area at different stages of development, such as MRC Confidence in Concept, EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account, and the Wellcome Trust Pathfinder award. For more information visit the University of Bristol Impact Funding webpage.

Translational Acceleration and Knowledge Transfer (TRACK) awards

Support offered: We anticipate that individual projects funded from an institution’s award will be of the order of £25k and approximately 6-12 months in length, although this will be dictated by the needs of each project.

Application deadline: 06/05/2020

SETsquared’s Scale-Up Programme will invest £100k+ into R&D project proposal development for a significant number of open and themed One Health funds including Bio/Med tech focused on disease prevention, precision medicine and other novel medical solutions.

One Health Campaign

Support offered: Funding of up to £35k per project to help develop collaborative R&D proposals bids.

Stage of innovation: R&D project proposal development

Open to: Academics (from the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey), companies and consortia, including companies and academics.

Application deadline: Ongoing

The Wellcome Trust is awarding up to £750,000 support researchers who are transforming great ideas into healthcare innovations that could have a significant impact on human health.

Wellcome Trust Innovator Awards

Support offered: Up to £500,000, or up to £750,000 for multidisciplinary collaborations. Usually up to 24 months, or up to 36 months for multidisciplinary collaborations.

Stage of innovation: Any

Open to: Innovator Awards are open to researchers who are developing healthcare innovations that could have a major and measurable impact on human health. Individuals and teams from not-for-profit and commercial organisations can apply. Organisations can be of any size, based anywhere in the world.

Application deadline: Ongoing

The NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme supports the preclinical and clinical development of medical devices in areas of existing or emerging patient need.

i4i Product Development Awards Call 2019

Support offered: The aim of the Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme is to de-risk early stage projects that have a strong potential for commercialisation and acceptance for use in the NHS, making them attractive to follow-on funders and investors. i4i funds collaborative research projects that have demonstrated proof-of-principle and have a clear pathway towards adoption and commercialisation.

Stage of innovation: i4i Product Development Awards (PDA) support innovations at any stage of the translational research and development pathway, including the clinical development of laboratory-validated technologies or interventions.

Application deadline: Ongoing

If you are interested in Health Economics, Transformational Leadership, Collaborative Management, Efficient Working and Entrepreneurship then you are an ideal candidate for The HELM Programme.

Health Economic Leadership Management

Support offered: Training and support surrounding Health Economics, Transformational Leadership, Collaborative Management, Efficient Working and Entrepreneurship.

Stage of innovation: No innovation necessary.

Open to: NHS Employees

Application deadline: Ongoing

The Bristol Industrial PhD Placement Fund is supported by the EPSRC National Productivity Investment Fund. It encourages innovative, creative and collaborative ways for PhD students to experience working within industry and gaining new skills.

Bristol Industrial PhD Placement Fund

Support offered: PhD students who take on a placement will be able to apply their technical, research and professional skills across different contexts outside of academia.

Open to: Any external organisation aligning with the EPSRC Industrial Strategy challenge in one of the 9 selected areas.

Application deadline: Ongoing

If you are a business with ambitions to grow, the introduction of innovation into your strategy, culture and management can deliver real results.

Innovate2Succeed

Support offered: A range of business support, from access to funding and design thinking to leadership and management and entrepreneurial culture.

Open to: Any business looking to develop new products or technologies or take existing products or services to new customers or markets.

Application deadline: Ongoing

Supporting businesses, academia and healthcare providers to collaborate and innovate positive change for the benefit of patients, the NHS and the economy.

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Application deadline: Ongoing