Innovation Seed Fund Grant

Innovation Seed Fund Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: RNID (The Royal National Institute for Deaf People)
Amount: Up to £10,000
Last Updated: September 12, 2025

Summary

The Innovation Seed Fund Grant aims to stimulate innovative research focused on hearing loss, tinnitus, and related conditions. By supporting novel ideas, the fund enhances competitiveness for follow-on funding. It also backs small-scale translational projects, including proof-of-concept and pre-clinical studies, to ensure new approaches gain traction. Proposals must demonstrate potential benefits for individuals affected by hearing issues, encouraging high-risk yet inventive concepts to foster advancements in the field.

Overview

Innovation Seed Fund Through our Innovation Seed Fund grants, we aim to pump-prime innovative research into the causes, treatment and diagnosis of hearing loss, tinnitus and other hearing-related conditions. We want to support novel research ideas with the aim of making them more competitive and able to secure follow-on funding. The fund will also support small-scale projects at the translational stage, such as proof-of-concept studies or pre-clinical validation studies, again with the aim of making novel approaches more competitive for further funding. All proposals should be able to demonstrate how they will contribute to ultimately bringing benefit to people with hearing loss, tinnitus or other hearing-related conditions. They should be highly novel and/or innovative – potentially risky ideas are welcome.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Applicants can be from a university, research institute, or small or medium enterprise based anywhere in the world.

Ineligibility

We will not consider applications:for conference attendancesolely for equipment coststo support the costs towards a degree, e.g. tuition fees or maintenancefor social research projects