CSconnected Supply Chain Development Programme - Call 3
CSconnected are deploying a £1M investment programme with Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) to drive the expansion of the semiconductor supply chain in South Wales, to boost jobs creation and GVA growth in Wales and the UK. This is the Third Call since the programme was launched in March 2025 and is relevant to UK-based buyers and suppliers to the Compound Semiconductor (CS) sector in South Wales, including:
- advanced manufacturing services
- advanced mechanical and electronic engineering products/services
- industrial gases/chemical suppliers
- raw material and equipment suppliers
- specialist compound semiconductor design tools and software
- fabless compound semiconductor companies
- end-market system integrators such as in automotive, communications, aerospace, medical sectors
Calls to action and opportunities list
Find here the latest opportunities and calls to action for the semiconductor sector.
New Calls and Events
Global Business Innovation Programme Semiconductors Singapore
The Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP) helps ambitious UK companies developing cutting edge technologies in key sectors enter global markets of strategic importance and find international collaboration partners. This GBIP is part of a series focused on semiconductors with Japan, Switzerland, and Singapore. Successful applicants will be offered a place by 26th November 2025.
Existing Calls and Events
Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 10, business and non-academic
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £110 million for ambitious research and innovation projects in any sector, and tailored support to develop careers for future leaders. This funding is from UKRI. Competition opens: Monday 23 June 2025. Competition closes: Wednesday 5 November 2025 11:00am
Global Business Innovation Programme - Semiconductors: Singapore 2025
Innovate UK seeks ambitious innovative SMEs for a market visit and further opportunities in Singapore. Closing date: 06 November 2025 17:00
SAT/SETB recruitment 2025 for 2026 start
EPSRC is welcoming applicants for vacancies on their Science, Engineering and Technology Board (SETB) and on their Strategic Advisory Teams (SATs). Seeking applications from individuals with experience in either academia, industry, users of research, or in the third sector and government organisations. Closes: 07 November 2025
EPSRC new investigator award: Nov 2023: responsive mode
The aim of the new investigator awards is to support researchers to develop their own research vision and establish a new research group to explore that vision. Opening date: 13 November 2023 9:00am
Global Business Innovation Programme - AI Enhanced Manufacturing, USA (Boston & Pittsburgh)
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious innovative companies to explore AI manufacturing market opportunities with a visit to the USA. Closing date: 14 November 2025
Webinar - Introduction to Horizon Europe
This one-hour webinar is purposefully designed to help those with no or low recent knowledge about Horizon Europe gain an understanding of the opportunities it offers, and the basics about how to explore these opportunities further for yourself. Takes place: 19 November and 17 December 2025
Call for Abstracts for the Annual MicroTech 2026 Conference
IMAPS-UK announces this call for abstracts, with the theme of Driving Innovation in Semiconductor Packaging. The MicroTech 2026 Conference will be held at the King’s Conference Centre, Southampton on Thursday 26 March 2026. Abstracts are due by Friday 28th November 2025.
Horizon Europe Brokerage Visits 2025/2026
Innovate UK, in partnership with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the UK Science & Technology Network (STN), and the UK National Contact Points, will be leading Horizon Europe Brokerage Visits from September 2025.
Netherlands – Innovative Advanced Materials/Technologies & AI for Manufacturing – 1-4 December 2025
The QuantERA III Consortium announces a new Call for international research projects in Quantum Technologies. Funding: ca. €53M. Deadline for proposals submission: 05 December 2025, 17.00 CET
UK organisations can apply for funding to collaborate on industrial research projects with partners in Eureka member countries and Japan. Competition closes: Wednesday 21 January 2026 11:00am
Local Innovation Partnerships Fund: Earmarked Strand
A minimum of £30 million of funding is earmarked to 10 regions selected by the UK government through the Local Innovation Partnership Fund (LIPF) to unlock regional economic growth. Closing date: 03 February 2026 at 16:00 UK time
Local Innovation Partnerships Fund: competed strand
Triple helix partnerships across the UK, excluding places in receipt of an Earmarked Award can apply for a maximum of £20 million. The Competed strand provides an opportunity for places across the UK, outside of the earmarked regions, to demonstrate their innovation potential. Closing date: 12 February 2026 at 16:00 UK time
Wales Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition
This event, taking place on February 26th at ICC, Newport, Wales, is a premier national gathering of manufacturers, supply chain specialists, engineers, and decision-makers shaping the future of Welsh industry.
Help Shape a New Advanced Packaging Conference at CS/PIC/PE International 2026
With growing industry focus on chiplets, heterogeneous integration, and packaging innovation, we want to explore the need for a technical, application-focused event dedicated to this space.
Open-ended Calls
CSA Catapult Business Impact Survey 2025
This survey is designed to find out about the experiences of organisations that have engaged with the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult, and how this has had an impact on them and their work.
Advanced materials: highlight notice
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is seeking to support applications through their standard research grant scheme in the following two areas:
- advanced materials solutions for critical minerals
- in-situ and in-operando materials metrology and characterisation
The EIC Accelerator is a funding programme under Horizon Europe that offers support to start-ups and SMEs that are looking for substantial funding, have the ambition and commitment to scale up, and have an innovative, game changing product.
The EIC Transition is a funding programme under Horizon Europe targeting innovation activities that goes beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It supports both the maturation and validation of novel technologies from the lab to the relevant application environments.
EIC Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) Scale Up Scheme
This scheme is part of the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP), offering financial support in the form of investments to startups, SMEs, and small mid-caps, between EUR 10 to 30 million.
Semiconductor Packaging Survey
This survey is a vital step in helping the UK Government fully understand the strengths and weaknesses of the UK semiconductor packaging sector and identify critical gaps in the supply chain where targeted intervention may be needed.
NPL has launched Measurement for Business (M4B)
Are you a UK company that qualifies for M4B funding? M4B can give you access to NPL's specialist measurement science and engineering experts and facilities, at no charge, to help your business grow.
The Flexible Skills Programme (FSP) is a Welsh Government funded initiative that helps businesses across Wales build a stronger, more skilled workforce. Employers can apply for funding to cover up to 50% of the accredited training costs, with a maximum value of £50,000 per application.
Travel support for UK businesses to attend European events in 2025 & 2026
Innovate UK is offering Travel Support of up to £750 for companies to attend Horizon Europe consortia-building events in Europe.
Pre-announcement: Local Innovation Partnerships Fund
This programme earmarks at least £30 million for each of ten regions across the UK, including one in each of the devolved nations. The programme is designed to support places that have an identifiable innovation ecosystem, with high-potential innovation clusters aligned to national policy priorities.
UK Quantum Skills Taskforce report
The Quantum Skills Taskforce is a sector-wide coalition, including representatives from industry, academia, professional societies, national labs, and government departments and agencies. The Taskforce has considered the current and future skills needs of the sector, and how these needs could be met.
Agile Cymru
Agile Cymru is a scaleable programme of coordinated action, an agile tool to deliver greater economic co-operation at speed, guided by the International Strategy and our economic policies. This includes a flexible grant mechanism to support cross-border and international activity that maximises shared opportunities across themes, sectors, and geographies. Agile Cymru funding can support a wide range of activity; the focus is on the outcome and benefit for Wales.
Made Smarter Innovation Network: Digital & AI in Manufacturing
Made Smarter Innovation has identified AI as a keystone industrial digital technology, strategic to all sectors, and other digital technologies are critical to making AI useful. By filling out this short survey, you will directly contribute to shaping the future of AI and digital technologies within industry.
SMART Flexible Innovation Support (FIS) | Business Wales (gov.wales)
The Welsh Government is building a stronger, fairer, greener country, with an economy based on fair work, sustainability and the sectors of the future. SMART Flexible Innovation Support (FIS) is open to any organisation wishing to engage in Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I), including the third sector, local authorities and health boards. Open ended
Academic-Industry Partnerships In Cardiff Capital Region
Jointly funded by the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund and Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) the Academic-Industry Partnerships programme, part of the Cluster Development and Growth Programme, aims to bring together industry and academia to identify innovative solutions to enterprise challenges, particularly amongst micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Open ended
Strategic Innovation Fund: Round 5 Challenges
Innovation Challenge 1: Advanced Energy Transmission and Networks: How can we leverage breakthroughs in semiconductor, superconductor,
and wireless power transmission technologies to enhance grid performance? Projects applying to this challenge should align with and build upon existing UK and international initiatives in advanced energy transmission. Applicants should consider how their innovations complement prior research and industry developments.
The Innovate UK Scaleup Programme: for high potential scaleup businesses
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