Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £7 million in this Engineering Biology collaborative research and development (CR&D) competition. This competition is part of UKRI’s National Engineering Biology Programme (NEBP).
The aim of this competition is to deliver business led research and development (R&D) that will:
Your proposal must align with one or more of the NEBP themes or focus on cross cutting technology or service development. The NEBP themes are:
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process.
This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated.
Funding for this opportunity is subject to business case approval by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and HM Treasury.
Eligibility
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 and Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian and Belarusian source.
If your project’s total costs falls outside of our eligibility criteria, you must provide justification by email to support@iuk.ukri.org at least 10 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 or work alone your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.
More information on the different types of organisation can be found in our Funding rules.
Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.
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.
Subcontractors
UK based Subcontractors are allowed in this competition.
Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
All subcontractor costs must be justified and appropriate to the total project costs.
Number of applications
A business can only lead on one application but can be included as a collaborator in a further 2 applications.
Other businesses or organisations not leading an application, can collaborate in any number of applications.
The aim of this competition is to deliver business led research and development (R&D) that will:
The funding support will help to accelerate the development and adoption of engineering biology technologies and techniques and by doing so provide solutions to societal challenges.
For the purposes of this competition engineering biology refers to the:
Your proposal must clearly:
Your project can include:
We encourage you to collaborate with the UK research base and help to grow the UK’s Engineering Biology ecosystem.
Portfolio approach
We want to fund a variety of projects across different technologies, themes markets, technological maturities and research categories. We call this a portfolio approach.
Specific Themes
Your project must focus on developing engineering biology technologies or apply engineering biology solutions to one or more of the National Engineering Biology Programme (NEBP) themes or focus on cross cutting technology or service development. The NEBP themes are:
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