The UKRI Challenge Fund’s clean growth challenges are maximising the advantages from a global shift to clean growth, by supporting the development, manufacture and use of low-carbon technologies, systems and services.
Find out more about the clean growth challenges:
Reducing the carbon footprint of heavy and energy intensive industries through low-carbon technologies
Developing a compact, standardised nuclear power station product based around a small modular reactor
Developing new digital technologies for a flexible, more productive and sustainable manufacturing sector
Accelerating innovation in smart local energy systems, from energy storage to data management
Developing more sustainable plastic packaging materials and designs, and enabling new recycling processes
Accelerating the shift towards a manufacturing-based approach, digital technologies, and value-based outcomes
Supporting new ways to produce resilient and sustainable food, reducing carbon emissions, waste and pollution
Developing technology to reduce energy and resource use within the foundation industries
