Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £12 million for this competition.
The aim of this competition is to fund ambitious collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects, to support UK materials and manufacturing organisations to become significantly more resource efficient.
Simultaneous demonstrations of how UK materials and manufacturing will become more resilient or technologically advanced are encouraged.
Your proposal must improve resource efficiency and reduce carbon emissions
You must focus on two or more of these five core areas:
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process.
This competition closes at 11:00am UK time on the deadline stated.
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, Belarusian or Myanmar entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian, Belarusian or Myanmar source.
If your project’s duration 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 your organisation must:
Applications involving collaborations of businesses with academic institutions and research organisations are particularly encouraged to apply.
If the lead organisation is a research and technology organisation (RTO), it must collaborate with at least one business of any size and must include one eligible grant claiming SME.
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 and are limited to no more than 20% of the project’s total eligible costs.
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 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.
If a business is not leading any application, it can collaborate in any number of applications.
A research and technology organisation (RTO) can lead or collaborate on any number of applications.
An organisation not eligible to lead can collaborate on a maximum of 2 applications.
The aim of this competition is to fund ambitious collaborative research and development projects to support UK materials and manufacturing organisations to become significantly more resource efficient.
Simultaneous demonstrations of how UK materials and manufacturing will become more resilient or technologically advanced are encouraged.
Your proposal must improve resource efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
You must focus on two or more of these five core areas:
Enabling areas must not be the main focus of your project. These include:
Portfolio approachWe want to fund a variety of projects across different technologies, markets, locations, technological maturities and themes. We call this a portfolio approach.
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