FOI2026/00747: UK-Israel Eureka Bilateral Collaborative R&D Competitions
Case reference FOI2026/00747
Received 20 August 2026
Published 28 October 2026
Request
Request Received: 20 August 2026
I would like to request information relating to the following UK-Israel Eureka Bilateral Collaborative R&D competitions (hereafter the ‘UK-Israel competitions’):
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UK Israel Open Collaborative Competition 2018
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UK Israel Open Collaborative Competition 2019
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UK-Israel Eureka Bilateral Collaborative R&D (2022)
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UK-Israel Eureka Bilateral Collaborative R&D Round 2 (2023)
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UK-Israel Eureka Bilateral Collaborative R&D Round 3 (2024)
I have reviewed the spreadsheet “Innovate UK funded projects from financial year 2016 to 2017 to present”. However, the dataset appears to be incomplete. For example, it records no projects were funded in 2022, only one project in 2024 and two projects in 2018. These figures appear inconsistent with the funding available under the respective competitions. In addition, a number of the projects listed do not identify the Israeli participant, and one project (CREST) does not include a project description.
|
Year |
Competition Reference |
Total funding available |
Total amount awarded |
Total projects funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2018 |
1811_INT_ISRAEL |
£1 million |
£334,274 |
2 |
|
2019 |
1911_INT_ISRAEL |
£2 million |
£783,824 |
7 |
|
2022 |
No CR appears to be unpublished |
£2 million |
N/a |
0 |
|
2023 |
2306_UK_ISRAEL_BILATERAL_CALL2 |
£2 million |
£619,891 |
3 |
|
2024 |
2406_EUREKA_UK_ISRAEL_CRD_R3 |
£1 million |
£249,927 |
1 |
Information missing from projects listed in the dataset
Please could you provide the Israeli participant(s) for the following projects:
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CREST (Chrysanthemum RESistant to TSWV) (2018)
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SafeCell - Novel Battery Monitoring and Control System (2019)
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SHADOW - Sensing Hazards and Accidents with Doppler Over Wi-Fi (2019)
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Real-time volumetric video recording of large capture areas (2019)
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Enabling Post-Consumer Recycled Plastics in the Built-Environment using Nanocomposite Flame-Retardants (2023)
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Nanosensor enabled analytics and predictive maintenance of heat exchangers (2023)
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Development of tomato resistance to tomato brown rugose fruit virus (2023)
Please could you also provide the project description for:
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CREST (Chrysanthemum RESistant to TSWV) (2018)
Projects missing from the dataset
Finally, please could you provide the following information for any projects awarded funding by Innovate UK under the UK-Israel competitions that are not listed in the “Innovate UK funded projects from financial year 2016 to 2017 to present” dataset:
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Project title
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UK participant(s)
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Israeli participant(s)
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Amount of Innovate UK funding awarded
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Project start date
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Project status
If the dataset does list all projects awarded funding under these five competitions, please confirm this for each competition.
Response
Response Sent: 18 September 2026
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