Belfast 5G Innovation Funding Competition (Up to £100,000)

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About Belfast 5G Innovation Funding Competition (Up to £100,000)

As part of the Belfast 5G Innovation Region programme, Belfast City Council has launched a 5G funding competition with grants of up to £100,000 available to support local businesses and industries to harness the power of 5G and digital technologies to deliver enhanced operations and services.

Advanced wireless networks, such as 5G, are key to driving economic growth and innovation across a range of industry sectors including health, manufacturing, transport and logistics, creative industries, and public services. 5G offers faster speeds, lower latency, higher capacity, increased flexibility, and increased reliability – supporting a range of digital technologies such as automation, IoT, AI, robotics, and immersive applications.

Timeline

• Competition opens: 23 June 2025
• Competition Briefing Webinar: 10.30am, 26 June 2025- Click on the website to register
• Deadline for clarification questions: 5pm, 27 August 2025
• Deadline for applications: 11.59pm, 8 September 2025
• Applicants notified: W/C 22 September 2025
• Projects start: October 2025
• Grant funded activities must be completed by: 31 March 2026

• Sponsor Organisation: Belfast City Council

Benefits of Belfast 5G Innovation Funding Competition (Up to £100,000)

• Total available funding is up to £550,000
• Businesses and organisations can apply for grants of between £50,000 and £100,000 of capital funding.
• Applicants must provide 30% match funding (can include in-kind contributions).

Belfast 5G Innovation Funding Competition (Up to £100,000) Requirements

The competition is open to:

• businesses and organisations with a business address and operations in the Belfast Region City Deal council areas: Antrim and Newtownabbey, Ards and North Down, Belfast, Lisburn and Castlereagh, Mid and East Antrim, and Newry, Mourne and Down;
• private sector, public sector, academia, RTO, non-profit and charitable sectors; and
• all industry sectors.

Project requirements

Proposals should:

• demonstrate one or more use cases for 5G and/or other advanced wireless connectivity in a real-world setting;
• aim to solve real-world issues such as delivering improvements to existing business activities or operations;
• deliver economic, social, and/or environmental impacts such as cost savings, productivity gains, efficiencies, welfare improvements etc; and
• demonstrate how the project will be commercially sustainable beyond the funding period.

Application Date and Process

Applicants must complete:

• application form in Word format
• the Finance Workbook in Excel format that is available here
• Applicants must also submit a project plan and risk register.

Note that the individual PDF may be a maximum of 5MB and no more than three sides of A4, in a font size that is readable at 100% zoom

Apply Here

Applications should be sent to [email protected]. You will receive an email acknowledgement of your submission.

For more information, contact Belfast City Council’s City Innovation Office by emailing [email protected]

Application Deadline

08 September, 2025

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