USB Environmental Intelligence and Emissions Grant Call
The UK Space Agency invites proposals for the Unlocking Space for Business: Environmental Intelligence and Emissions Grant Call
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Unlocking Space for Business
The UK Space Agency’s Unlocking Space for Business (USB) programme is seeking to accelerate the adoption of space-enabled data and services to address environmental intelligence and emissions challenges across the UK economy.
This challenge-led competition is designed to support projects that demonstrate how space-enabled data, technologies and services can help organisations improve environmental monitoring, emissions measurement, reporting and verification, and wider environmental decision-making. The competition aims to stimulate greater collaboration between end users, data integrators and space-sector suppliers, while supporting the development of solutions with credible pathways to future operational adoption.
Who can apply
This competition is open to UK-registered end-user businesses, including SMEs, leading a consortium with at least one UK space supplier and any additional integrator or delivery partner organisations required to support project delivery.
For the purposes of this competition, 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.
The competition is particularly aimed at end-user organisations operating in sectors including financial services, insurance, asset management, energy, utilities, infrastructure, agriculture, land management and environmental services.
Applications from organisations in other sectors are also welcome, provided they can demonstrate a clear environmental intelligence or emissions-related use case aligned with the competition objectives.
The UK Space Agency invites applications from end-user-led consortia comprising:
- An end-user organisation seeking to address one of the competition’s environmental intelligence or emissions challenge statements
- At least one supplier of space-enabled data, products or services; and
- Any additional delivery partners or integrators required to support successful project delivery.
Applicant webinar
On 3 November 2026, the UK Space Agency hosted a briefing webinar to provide prospective applicants with further information about the competition.
A recording of the webinar can be accessed here: Unlocking Space for Business Environmental Intelligence and Emissions Grant Call Webinar - YouTube, and the information presented during the session is included in the annex to this page.
The webinar also provided an opportunity for prospective applicants to submit questions. Relevant questions and responses have subsequently been incorporated into the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section in the guidance page Unlocking Space for Business: Environmental Intelligence and Emissions Grant Call - GOV.UK
Funding available
The UK Space Agency intends to award up to £2 million through this competition.
Applicants may request up to £400,000 grant funding per project. Total project costs may be higher where match funding is provided by consortium partners.
In exceptional circumstances, the UK Space Agency reserves the right to adjust the total funding available, the number of projects funded, or the value of individual awards.
Project duration
Projects are expected to start in January 2027 and run for approximately 9 months.
Projects must be sufficiently mature to demonstrate operational value within the funded period and deliver measurable outcomes by the end of the project.
How to apply
Applications must be submitted through the Flexigrant portal by 16:00 GMT on 11 December 2026.
Applicants must complete all required sections of the online application form and upload the required supporting documentation through the Flexigrant platform which can be accessed here: Flexigrant . Applications submitted by email will not be accepted.
Late applications will not be accepted.
Your application must include:
- A completed application form;
- Annex A: Proposed Milestone Table
- Annex B: Project Cost Breakdown
- Annex C: National Security Questionnaire
- Annex D: Details of Previous Grants for Subsidy Control Purposes (if required)
- Any additional supporting documentation requested within the application process.
Applicants should read the full competition guidance before submitting an application.