Before You Apply: Preparing for an Innovate UK Grant

Understand how to prepare your business before applying for an Innovate UK grant. This session focuses on clarity - about your idea, your business, and your readiness - before you move into grant funding.

Only around 1 in 5 Innovate UK applications are successful, making preparation critical from the outset. Successful applications don’t start with writing - they start with clarity.

Join Monika Dabrowska - funding expert, Director at Innovaction Global, and Innovate UK Monitoring Service Provider - for an insider-led session on preparing for an Innovate UK grant. Monika will guide you through five key questions every applicant should be able to answer before applying:

1. Why?
2. What?
3. Where?
4. Who?
5. How much?

By the end of the session, you will have clear answers to these five questions and a stronger understanding of what needs to be in place before progressing to an Innovate UK application.

Who Should Attend

This session is for founders, innovators, and team leads from startups, SMEs, and established organisations who are developing innovative ideas and want to strengthen their understanding of their business and project before moving into grant funding.

NOTE: Attendees must be from UK-registered companies or actively planning to start one in the UK.

About the presenter

Monika Dabrowska is the Founder & Director of Innovaction Global, an innovation consulting company that helps organisations improve performance and achieve their goals and vision by raising grants and managing R&D funded projects.

Monika is also a Monitoring Service Provider at Innovate UK. She is assigned to successful grant application projects and is a key point of contact for participants.

Monika has 15 years of experience in obtaining EU and UK funding and providing management for R&D and investment projects to public and private organisations. Working with maritime, healthcare, energy, and IT companies, she is adding value to teams looking for intelligent, insightful information.