Creative Industries & Immersive grants
UK funding for games, immersive media, creative R&D and design-led innovation
Creative industries are the UK's fastest-growing export sector and a serious R&D funding opportunity. Innovate UK and AHRC back audience-facing innovation, interactive media, design technology and IP-rich creative tools. The trick is to frame the project around a genuine technical or creative R&D question, not just content production.
Funders funding creative industries & immersive
- AHRC
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Programmes that fit creative industries & immersive companies
Innovate UK Audience of the Future
Immersive and audience-facing content, tools and experiences.
AHRC Creative Industries R&D
Design-led and humanities-informed innovation, often in partnership with tech teams.
Horizon Europe Creative Industries
European calls for cultural and creative sector innovation and cross-border collaboration.
What assessors actually score
- A clear creative or technical R&D question, not just a production plan
- Audience or user evidence and a credible commercialisation route
- IP, rights and distribution strategy addressed upfront
Where we work in creative industries & immersive
Creative Industries & Immersive grants in our directory
Live programmes from the UK grant directory that suit creative industries & immersive projects. Deadlines move between rounds, so each listing links through to the current detail.
European Innovation Council
EIC Accelerator
Funding and investment for high-risk, high-potential deep-tech SMEs and start-ups scaling breakthrough innovations.
Advanced Research + Invention Agency
ARIA opportunity spaces
Rolling and programme-based funding for high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for transformative impact.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Advanced border surveillance and situational awareness
Open to legal entities from EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries (per Annex B eligibility rules); entities controlled by China or a Chinese legal entity are not eligible. Proposals must include, as beneficiaries, at least 2 Border or Coast Guard Authorities from at least 2 different EU Member States or Associated countries.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Climate security and civil preparedness – new ways to develop pre- and post-crisis climate…
Open to legal entities (including research organisations, public bodies and international organisations with HQ in an EU Member State or Associated Country) eligible under Horizon Europe rules; consortia must include at least 3 national authorities in charge of disaster risk management as beneficiaries, each from a different EU Member State or Associated Country.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Crime prevention approaches, online and off-line, tackling the nexus between addictions an…
Open to consortia of legal entities from EU Member States and Associated Countries; the consortium must include at least 2 Police Authorities and at least 2 Civil Society Organisations (or NGOs) from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Designing new ways of risk awareness and enhanced disaster preparedness
Open to consortia of legal entities from EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries; the project must include at least 3 organisations from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries, with mandatory participation of at least one civil society organisation, one national authority in charge of disaster risk, and one organisation representing local or regional authorities.
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