Battery Innovation Feasibility Studies 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

£70,000-£500,000

Project Location Project Location

Project work carried out in the UK

Project Start & Finish Project Start & Finish

Start by 1 April 2026 - last between 6 and 18 months

Project Delivery Project Delivery

UK lead & Non-UK partners in consortium

Funding Rates Funding Rates

70% for small orgs 60% for medium orgs 50% for large orgs

Application Deadline Application Deadline

17 December 2025 11:00am

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 £70,000 and £500,000 and must last between 6 and 18 months. Projects cannot start before 1st April 2026.

How can PNO UK help with your application?

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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