Unlocking Space for Business Grant Call: Environmental Intelligence and Emissions

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About this grant

Summary from the official listing on Find a Grant (GOV.UK):

• Grant Call Title: Unlocking Space for Business Environmental Intelligence and Emissions Grant Call
• Who can apply: UK registered end-user businesses including SMEs, leading a consortium with a UK space supplier and any integrator organisations. End-user businesses are organisations that use space-enabled products, services or insights to address operational challenges, improve decision-making, manage risk or deliver commercial outcomes.
• Target sectors: aimed at end-user organisations operating in sectors including financial services, insurance, asset management, energy, utilities, infrastructure, agriculture, land management and environmental services.
• Total Funding Envelope: £2,000,000 grant funding available
• Delivery: Projects to start January 2027 for a maximum of 9 months with first milestone delivered by 31 March 2027
• Deadline: Friday 11 December 2026, 16:00 GMT
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The UK Space Agency's Unlocking Space for Business (USB) programme supports organisations to adopt satellite data, services and technologies to solve real-world business challenges. The programme raises awareness of space-enabled solutions, connecting end-user organisations with space suppliers and provides funding and expert support to de-risk innovation and accelerate commercial adoption.

Aligned with the UK Space Strategy’s focus on commercialisation and growth, USB stimulates demand for space-enabled services by supporting end-user led projects with a credible route to adoption. Through this approach the programme aims to demonstrate tangible business value, supports the growth of UK space capabilities and reduces barriers to the uptake of space-enabled solutions across UK industry.

Environmental intelligence and emissions monitoring have been identified as USB priority areas through ongoing engagement with businesses and stakeholders that required trusted environmental data to support decision-making, risk management, sustainability reporting and regulatory compliance. Growing demand for climate, nature and environmental monitoring capabilities presents a significant opportunity for UK organisations to adopt innovative space-enabled services that improve operational outcomes while supporting the growth of the UK space sector. Environmental intelligence is defined as the combination of terrestrial and satellite-derived monitoring data, alongside enabling technologies such as AI, to provide actionable insights to businesses on the physical environment they are operating within. This type of insights is becoming increasingly important across both public and private sectors, driven by climate adaptation requirements, nature recovery commitments, environmental regulation, sustainability reporting obligations and growing demand for trusted environmental intelligence. This growing demand presents an opportunity to improve environmental outcomes and stimulate new customer markets for innovative UK space-enabled products and services.

Space-enabled technologies are uniquely placed to support environmental intelligence and emissions monitoring, providing consistent repeatable and large scale observations that would often be costly, impractical or challenging to obtain through terrestrial approaches alone. The UK space sector generates over £18 billion in…

Eligibility

All successful UK Space Agency grant proposals must follow certain mandatory requirements:The project must be led by a UK organisation who will receive a grant from the UK Space Agency.

This can be any type of UK organisation including University-led academic research proposals and Industry-led commercial research proposalsGrant recipients must demonstrate the ability to effectively manage a project.

Grant recipients must have a UK bank account and all grant payments will be made in UK sterling (as per grant funding agreement).As per the terms of the Grant Funding Agreement, the lead organisation will be required to put in place a Collaboration or Flow Down Agreement that ensures all terms and conditions within the Grant Funding Agreement are passed onto project partners.

This should be in place with 30 days of signature. This should include provisions regarding how the results of the work, including any IPR and spinouts, will be exploited by project partners.All project members must have in place and provide evidence when requested of appropriate anti-bribery and anti-corruption policies.All project members must be able to provide evidence that they are GDPR compliant.

All project members must provide evidence of a process for declaring and managing conflicts of interest.Projects cannot work in areas that are in active conflict and any travel to overseas areas must comply with Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) travel advice.

Projects must pass due diligence checks on company viability and national security (including financial standing assessment, governance assessment, conflicts of interest assessment, national security assessment and technical expertise assessment) – the UK Space Agency reserves the right to withdraw any offer in the event an applicant does not pass any of these requirements.Projects must comply with any call-specific rules stated in the call guidance page.Projects can include non-domestic partners (including those within the EU) who bring their own funding.

Applicants should note that all applicants, irrespective of geographic location, must still satisfy the core eligibility requirements set out in this section above and award will be subject to completion of satisfactory due diligence checks.

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