Battery innovation concept development round 2
Ref: GRT-RCEA0ENO
Funding Available
Between £500,000 and £4,000,000
UK Wide
All Sectors
27 May 2026
Grants & Funding
About This Grant
Funding for collaborative R&D projects focused on battery grade material technologies, aiming to strengthen UK manufacturing capability, supply chain security, and material circularity for electrification.
What Can It Fund?
- Collaborative R&D in critical battery value chain areas
- material processing
- extraction
- refining
- recycling
- supply chain localisation
- and scaling laboratory innovations to pilot manufacturing.
Eligible Costs
- -R&D costs
- -material extraction
- -mining and refining costs
- -recycling and recovery of critical materials
- -pre-commercial manufacturing scale-up.
Funding Source
Department for Business and Trade
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