Competition information
The Canada-UK Collaborative R&D competition focusing on semiconductors, jointly organised by Innovate UK, and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) will open on 12 May 2025.
The aim of this competition is to support joint R&D projects between Canadian and UK businesses and other organisations to stimulate the development of innovative semiconductor related technologies.
This call for proposals is open to organisations from Canada and the UK who wish to form project consortia to perform collaborative projects focused on developing innovative products, processes, or technology-based services in semiconductors. We want to fund a variety of projects across the semiconductors sector, and technologies of interest include, but are not limited to:
- compound, Wide Band Gap semiconductors
- semiconductor design, intellectual property (IP)
- advanced packaging
- heterogeneous, hybrid integration
- photonics, including silicon photonics
- emerging materials
- prototyping and low volume piloting
- processing or processes
- simulation tools
This list is not exhaustive.
Your proposal must include at least one partner from the UK and one partner from Canada.
UK registered organisations must apply to and will be funded by Innovate UK. Canadian partners must apply to and will be funded by the NRC IRAP.
Canadian funding applicants are required to register and submit an expression of interest (EoI) before being eligible to apply for this competition.
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated.
‘Full details of the competition can be found on the competition page.’: Competition overview - Canada-UK Semiconductors - Innovation Funding Service
Key dates
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Competition open date |
12 May 2025 |
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Online briefing event: register to attend |
330pm - 21 May 2025 |
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Canadian EoI registration deadline |
9 July 2025 |
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Canadian EoI submission deadline |
23 July 2025 |
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Competition close date |
15 October 2025 |
The Canada-UK Collaborative R&D competition focused on semiconductors, jointly organised by Innovate UK, and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) will open in Spring 2025.
The aim of this competition is to support joint R&D projects between Canadian and UK businesses and other organisations to stimulate the development of innovative semiconductor related technologies.
More details on the competition will be posted in due course.
