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WECA Business Innovation Fund
open-opportunity“The Business Innovation Fund can support you to progress experimental development research and development, which means acquiring, combining, shaping and using existing scientific, technological, business and other relevant knowledge and skills with the aim of creating novel/new products, processes or services.”
Cheryl Scott
Industry and Innovation Lead
The Business Innovation Fund awards grants to support small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to undertake research and development (R&D) activities that leads to the creation of novel/new products, processes and/or services, including through developing prototypes and proving concepts, development work, testing and trialling.
The Shuri Network Digital Fellowships
open-opportunity“The Fellowship will help empower women from ethnic minority backgrounds to overcome career-related challenges, gain insight into different digital roles, support career progression, build positive relationships and self-confidence. ”
Cheryl Scott
Industry and Innovation Lead
The Shuri Network and NHS England are working collaboratively to support women from ethnic minority backgrounds to succeed and thrive in digital health and improve patient care.
EIC Accelerator
open-opportunity“A great opportunity for innovators looking for substantial funding, but the risks involved are too high for private investors alone to invest.”
Cheryl Scott
Industry and Innovation Lead
The EIC Accelerator is a funding programme under Horizon Europe that offers support to start-ups and SMEs that have a innovative, game changing product, service or business model that could create new markets or disrupt existing ones in Europe and even worldwide and have the ambition and commitment to scale up.
NIHR Challenge - Maternity Inequalities
open-opportunity“Selected organisations forming the consortium will be expected to draw in wider expertise, such as practitioners, charities, industry, implementation, and systems experts to ensure geographical spread and that research is undertaken where the need is greatest.”
Ben Hugill
Innovation Advisor
The first ever NIHR Challenge funding call, backed by £50 million, will task researchers and policymakers with finding new ways to tackle maternity disparities.
This funding call will bring together a diverse consortium, funding research and capacity building. The aim is to increase the evidence base to address maternity inequalities, facilitating a multidisciplinary whole systems approach to address uncertainties across research, innovation and implementation.
NHS Cancer Programme - Innovation Open Call 3
open-opportunity“Applications are invited for innovations or new approaches that will detect cancers earlier and increase the proportion diagnosed at stage one or two.”
Ben Hugill
Innovation Advisor
NHS England has launched a new round of its funding competition for innovation in the early detection and diagnosis of cancer.
The competition aims to fast-track high quality, proven, late-stage innovations into front-line settings, as well as address implementation evidence gaps. The competition is open to all types of innovation, including but not limited to, medical devices, in vitro diagnostics, digital health solutions, behavioural interventions, software, artificial intelligence, and new models of care.
Reducing compound pressures on the NHS and social care
open-opportunity“The NIHR wants to generate high-quality research evidence into the evaluation of health and care interventions and services to reduce compound pressures on the NHS and social care.”
Ben Hugill
Innovation Advisor
This cross-programme call from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for research supports the recently published Department of Health and Social Care Areas of Research Interest which calls for high quality evidence to support those who plan, commission, manage, deliver and use services across the health, public health and social care sector.
