The ‘robots for a safer world’ challenge focused on research and innovation in advanced robotics and autonomous systems.
It aimed to create a safer working world for humans by taking them out of extreme environments such as places that are difficult or dangerous for humans to access.
Funding councils:
EPSRCInnovate UK
Improve population health, tackle the health inequalities affecting people and communities, and advance interventions that keep us healthier for longer.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCInnovate UKMRCNERCResearch EnglandSTFC
With a portfolio of over 70 funded projects, the SSPP challenge is the largest and most ambitious UK government investment to date in sustainable plastics research and innovation, driving cleaner growth across the UK’s plastics, packaging and retail supply chains.
Funding councils:
Innovate UKNERC
Prepare for future disease epidemics and halt the ‘slow motion pandemic’ of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCInnovate UKMRCNERC
The transforming construction challenge was funded under the UKRI Challenge Fund to accelerate the shift in construction in the UK towards manufacturing and digital processes.
Funding councils:
Innovate UK
The transforming food production (TFP) challenge supports new ways to produce food that reduces emissions and pollution, and contributes to feeding a growing world population.
The aim is to:
- produce resilient and sustainable food more efficiently
- reduce emissions and pollution
- minimise waste
- improve soil
Funding councils:
BBSRCInnovate UK
The foundation industries are vital to the UK manufacturing and construction sectors.
This challenge aims to transform the UK’s foundation industries by:
- making them internationally competitive
- securing more jobs throughout the UK
- growing the sector by 2024 in an environmentally sustainable way
Funding councils:
Innovate UK
The aim of this investment is to drive innovation in digital health by promoting knowledge and skills sharing across healthcare, academia and business.
EPSRC and UKRI have invested in five digital health hubs that will drive the development of innovative digital technologies for healthcare.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCInnovate UKMRCNERCSTFC
This fund is investing £320 million to enable new and existing capabilities and capacity in artificial intelligence, engineering biology, future telecommunications and quantum technologies.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCInnovate UKMRCNERCResearch EnglandSTFC