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UK-Germany Collaborative Innovation for Quantum Technologies 2026

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million for innovative projects in quantum. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

In Short

Project Duration Project Duration

18 and 24 months

Funding Rates Funding Rates

70% micro/small; 60% medium; 50% large

Deadline Deadline

Wednesday 15 April 2026

Themes

The co-innovation project must focus on development, prototyping and testing of commercial quantum technologies:

  • technologies, for example, qubit processor, switching, networking or control systems, to scale practical quantum computing
  • commercial quantum computing software solutions and services
  • industrial products, processes, or services to advance scalable solutions, for example, chip scale quantum, photonic and optoelectronic systems for applied quantum technologies
  • quantum sensing for applications such as clocks, industrial instrumentation, clinical devices, imaging, resource mapping, geological or oceanographic survey applications.

Eligibility

Your project must: have a grant funding request of between £750,000 and £1 million allocated to UK organisations; last between 18 and 24 months, start on 1 November 2026 and end by 31 October 2028.

The majority of the project work must be undertaken in the UK and Germany. UK project partners must carry out their project work in the UK and intend to exploit the results from or in the UK. The consortium must include one business registered in Germany as project co-lead that is a separate legal entity and not linked to the UK partners.

Only UK registered partners must be listed in the Project Partner section of your application on the Innovation Funding Service (IFS). This is to ensure that projects encourage genuine international collaboration, not internal company research. Linked companies are considered a single entity under the parent company. To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered: business of any size, academic institution, research and technology organisation (RTO).

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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