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.
Other funders
[SBRI] SBRI Healthcare: NHS Cancer Programme - Innovation Open Call 4
Address two challenges: Improving productivity through managing demand or improving capacity on cancer care pathways - to support the NHS in meeting all Cancer Waiting Time standards by March 2029; and/or Driving the earlier detection and diagnosis of cancer (through novel screening, prompt presentation, case-finding, or diagnostic tools) - to help ensure three quarters of people diagnosed with cancer will be cancer-free, or living well with cancer after 5 years by 2035. What funding is available? To address different stages of innovation maturity, and distinct barriers to adoption, the compe…
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 Europe - DIGITAL] CL4-2027-04 Energy-efficient AI Data Centres
This is a demonstration-heavy, industrially oriented grant for mature technologies that can materially reduce the energy and environmental impact of AI data centres. The Commission wants practical pilots, not conceptual studies: cooling, power backup, AI-aware operations, waste-heat reuse and energy-system integration all need to be shown in credible real-world settings. The most competitive bids will probably present a full-stack story: chip/module thermal management + data-centre operations optimisation + energy/waste-heat integration + validated industrial use cases. A good proposal should…
Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe Cluster 4: trustworthy AI
Thematic calls funding research into trustworthy, secure and human-centric artificial intelligence systems.
EIT Urban Mobility
[EIT Urban Mobility] Strategic Innovation Open Call - Mobility data management
Data-driven solutions that enhance the performance, efficiency and responsiveness of urban mobility systems through e.g. the use of advanced analytics, AI, quantum technology or real time data – in alignment with EU level interoperability and data governance efforts (e.g. common data spaces, European data standards, open digital infrastructures). Solutions that enable cities and public authorities to make data-informed decisions – particularly for the design and implementation of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), inclusive/participatory planning and citizen engagement, resilience and…
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