Battery Innovation Concept Development: round 1

Up to £20million funding available from The Battery Innovation Programme for collaborative innovation in battery technologies for electrification.

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In Short

Project Costs Project Costs

£200k–£500k

Project Duration Project Duration

Up to 24 months

Partners Partners

UK business-led, collaborative

Scope Scope

On-farm & post-farmgate innovation (animals, plants, food, bioeconomy)

Funding Rates Funding Rates

50–70% (size-dependent)

Application Deadline Application Deadline

3 December 2025, 11 am

Themes

Increased equipment manufacturing and process capability for advanced production process and new battery technologies, manufacturing process with lower environmental impact, cost and improved yield, enhanced digital capability for optimisation and quality control, developing manufacturing processes that scale efficiently to meet growing demand.

Process capability of end-of-life batteries, process capability of cell and batteries manufacturing scrap, high purity black-mass production and processing, waste stream and low value recyclate material processing.

Meet international regulations and standards, exploit technologies to strengthen UK supply chain, develop an end-to-end bill of process and provenance, develop new technologies and business model to remove barriers for commercialisation, boost sustainability and resilience globally, reduce reliance of critical minerals.

Eligibility

Projects must be collaborative and led by a UK registered business of any size. The consortium must contain at least one grant claiming UK SME. UK registered businesses of any size, academic institutions, charities, not-for-profit, public sector organisations and RTOs can all collaborate. Non-UK partners can join a consortium as non-grant claiming partners.

Projects must have a grant funding request of between £500,000 and £4million and must last between 1 and 3 years. Projects cannot start before 1st April 2026.

Our Approach

The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.

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