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CKAF projects: year 1, financial year 2025 to 2026 

Updated 11 March 2026

Call deadline: December 2025 (Winter call)

Organisation Title Award
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) ApRES Groundwater Detection and Analysis Tool £208,866
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) PolarSight: An Integrated Polar Intelligence Platform for Marine Navigation £235,846
Health and Safety Executive Development of the Safety Data Diagnostic Framework £144,762
Health and Safety Executive RIDDOR Dashboard Upgrade £152,900
Health and Safety Executive National Population Database (NPD) Commercialisation Development £146,029
Medical Research Council - Laboratory of Molecular Biology FastFreeze: developing a prototype instrument for preparing cryoEM specimens that eliminates air-water interface interactions £182,142
National Physical Laboratory Gas Metrology Business and Delivery Model £159,603
The National Archives Divergence Tracker £249,859

Call deadline: September 2025 (Autumn call)

Organisation Title Award
British Geological Survey (BGS) Common Ground (Phase 2) £249,262
British Geological Survey (BGS) Geothermal Energy Commercial Portfolio £249,714
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Emulate: A Self-Service Synthetic Data Generation Platform £247,894
Natural History Museum Harnessing the colours of nature to create a new natural pigment £169,408
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) Compact pulsed-Rb clocks for next-generation GNSS holdover applications (Rb-POP) £248,872
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) HIDRA Establishing Commercial Traction £250,000