Funding Opportunities - Swansea University Business Collaborate with us Funding Opportunities Funding Opportunities Related pages Collaborate with us Funding Opportunities Smart & Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Project Partners Information Recruit our Talent Develop your Workforce Utilise our Commercial, Sponsorship and Events Services Hire Our Facilities Swansea University LINC Network Contact our Business Engagement team We work with many funding bodies who can support your collaboration with us, including UK Research and Innovation, Innovate UK Smart grants and regional schemes. Internal knowledge transfer schemes Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) and Smart Partnerships (SPs) Providing you with access to academic expertise and knowledge to help transform your organisation or business, solve problems, improve competitiveness, productivity & performance and ultimately transform your organisation. Smart Cymru This programme supports Welsh businesses to develop, implement and commercialise new products, processes and services. This funding can help your business, whatever stage of the Innovation Journey you are on! It supports research and development activity from feasibility studies, industrial research to develop proof of concept, experimental development to show research results in operation, and, finally, the exploitation stage. Use of SMART Cymru’s ‘Innovation Voucher’ can allow you to access external expertise; if you’d like to connect with one, or more, of our academics, please get in touch. Learn more. Innovate UK Smart grants Part-funded by Innovate UK, this competition is looking for game-changing and commercially viable, innovative or disruptive ideas. Applications must be led by a UK based company and can be single or collaborative dependant on project size (must include an SME). Learn more. Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) addresses the big societal challenges being faced by UK businesses today. It covers the four themes of the government’s industrial strategy: clean growth, ageing society, future of mobility, and artificial intelligence and data economy. The fund is backed by £2.6 billion of public money, with £3 billion in matched funding from the private sector. You can apply for this funding if you’re a business, charity, or based as a research organisation. Get in touch For more information on these opportunities, please contact our Business Engagement Team who are on-hand to help you with any enquiry. Dr Archie Kubba (Knowledge Transfer Officer) Ali.kubba@swansea.ac.uk