UK-Singapore CRD 2026

Who can apply Your project Your project must: - have a grant funding request of between £100,000 and £900,000 - last between 24 and 36 months - not start before 1 May 2027 - end by 30 April 2030 The majority of the project work must be undertaken in the UK and Singapore. UK project partners must carry out the majority of their project work in the UK and intend to exploit the results from or in the UK, and spend most of the funding within the UK. The consortium must include at least one business registered in Singapore that is a separate legal entity and not linked to the UK partners. 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. Your project must demonstrate a balanced technological contribution by the participants from both countries and must be equally significant to all participants. No one country or project partner can represent more than 70% of the total project cost. Your proposal must demonstrate a clear intention to commercially exploit the results of the project domestically or globally. You must only include eligible project costs in your application. See our overview of eligible project costs. If your project does not meet our criteria and you have not requested justification approval, your application will be made ineligible and it will not be sent for assessment. UK lead organisation To start an application on the Innovation Funding Service (IFS), your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. You must collaborate with at least one Singapore registered business applying to the Enterprise Singapore programme, which must be a separate legal entity, not linked to the UK partners More information on the different types of UK organisations can be found in our Funding rules. UK Project team 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) Only UK registered partners must be listed in the Project Partner section of your application on the Innovation Funding Service (IFS). Your Singapore partner will not receive any of this UK competition funding. Singapore partners will be funded by the Enterprise Singapore programme following a parallel application. Each organisation in your consortium will receive funding from its respective national funding body. Each UK partner organisation must be invited into the IFS by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the IFS. To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must: - apply for funding when entering their costs into the application - include rationale for the collaboration and describe the structure in your application - ensure any one partner does not account for more than 70% of the total eligible costs Non-funded partners Your project can include organisations who do not claim any funding for their work on the project. Their costs will be covered from their own resources. These can include UK, EU and other non-UK organisations. Non-UK partners are permitted to carry out project work from within their home countries and exploit the results outside the UK. International partners Singapore partners do not need to be invited into Innovate UK’s application on the Innovation Funding Service. Singapore partners will be funded by Enterprise Singapore following a parallel application. Subcontractors Subcontractors are allowed in this competition, but they are limited to no more than 20% of the total eligible costs of the UK participation. Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process. All subcontractor costs must be justified and appropriate to the total eligibl…

- have a grant funding request of between £100,000 and £900,000 No one country or project partner can represent more than 70% of the total project cost. You must only include eligible project costs in your application. See our overview of eligible project costs. Each UK partner organisation must be invited into the IFS by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the IFS. - apply for funding when entering their costs into the application - ensure any one partner does not account for more than 70% of the total eligible costs

24 August 2026: Competition opens 27 August 2026: Online briefing event: watch the recording Briefing slides are available to download from Supporting Information 16 December 2026 11:00am: Competition closes 26 February 2027: Applicants notified 1 May 2027: Project start by