Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) to invest up to £16 million in innovation projects. These projects will develop Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) technologies, products and services into commercial offerings to exploit early and medium term commercial markets in the UK and abroad.
The aim of this competition is to target early commercial self-driving vehicle opportunities and support the UK supply chain to grow and fill technology gaps necessary for their deployment.
Your project must strengthen the capabilities of the sovereign UK CAM supply chain. It must improve the safety and security of CAM, filling specific technology gaps, improving performance, reliability and scale-up opportunities in the UK and globally.
Your proposal must also identify clear market opportunities and an innovative project which exploits them.
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated.
Your project
Your project must:
You must only include eligible project costs in your application.
Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian or Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian or Belarusian source.
If your total project’s grant funding request or duration falls outside of our eligibility criteria, you must provide justification by email to support@iuk.ukri.org at least 15 working days before the competition closes. We will decide whether to approve your request.
If you have not requested approval or your application has not been approved by us, you will be made ineligible. Your application will then not be sent for assessment.
Lead organisation
To lead a project your organisation must:
More information on the different types of organisation can be found in our Funding rules.
Project team
To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.
Non-funded partners
Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.
Subcontractors
Subcontractors are allowed in this competition.
Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you could not use suppliers from the UK.
You must provide a detailed rationale, evidence of the potential UK contractors you approached and the reasons why they were unable to work with you. We will not accept a cheaper cost as a sufficient reason to use an overseas subcontractor.
All subcontractor costs must be justified, and combined subcontractor costs must not exceed 30% of the total grant requested.
Number of applications
A business can only lead on one application and can be included as a collaborator in a further 2 applications.
If an organisation is not leading any application, it can collaborate in any number of applications.
You can use a previously submitted application to apply for this competition.
We will not award you funding if you have:
Subsidy control (and State aid where applicable)
This competition provides funding in line with the UK
The aim of this competition is to target early commercial self-driving vehicle opportunities and support the UK supply chain to grow and fill technology gaps necessary for their deployment.
Your project must develop Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) technologies, products or services into commercial offerings to exploit early and medium term commercial markets in the UK and internationally.
Your proposal must show how you will support the deployment of self-driving vehicles, by strengthening the capabilities of the sovereign UK CAM supply chain in one or more of the following areas:
Your proposal must identify a clear market opportunity and an innovative project which exploits it.
Terminology in your application must comply with the meanings used in the BSI Connected and automated vehicles – Vocabulary.
Successful projects awarded grant will be required to support and engage with Innovate UK’s Impact and Evaluation framework.
Portfolio approach
We want to fund a variety of projects across different themes, different applications for outcomes, geographies and operational design domains. We call this a portfolio approach.
Your project must focus on developing products or services in one or more of the following:
We will fund industrial research projects and experimental development projects, as defined in the guidance on categories of research.
We are not funding projects that are:
We cannot fund projects that are:
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