Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £1 million in innovation projects.
The aim of this competition is to support UK materials and manufacturing organisations to become more resource efficient. Simultaneous demonstrations of how UK materials and manufacturing will become more resilient or technologically advanced are encouraged.
Your proposal must focus on two or more of these five core areas contributing to improvements in resource efficiency and be able to demonstrate carbon reduction:
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition closes at 11am 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 or Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian or Belarusian 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 or work alone your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.
Where applicable you can collaborate with other UK registered organisations
Academic institutions, research and technology organisations (RTO), charities, not for profit or public sector organisations cannot lead or work alone.
Project team
To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
More information on the different types of organisation can be found in our Funding rules.
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.
The lead must claim funding when entering their costs during the application. If part of a collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding when entering their costs during 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 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 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
Acan 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.
An academic institution, charity, not for profit, public sector organisation or RTO can collaborate on any number of applications.
The aim of this competition is to support UK materials and manufacturing organisations to become more resource efficient.
Simultaneous demonstrations of how UK materials and manufacturing will become more resilient or technologically advanced are encouraged.
Drivers such as climate change and supply chain resilience mean that there is a growing need to invest in manufacturing efficiency and material resource use or re-use across the supply value chain.
Your proposal must focus on two or more of these five core areas contributing to improvements in resource efficiency and be able to demonstrate carbon reduction:
Enabling areas, such as clean energy, regulations and policy, skills, relations, and value models, must not be the main focus of your project.
Portfolio approach
We want to fund a variety of projects across different core areas, markets and strands. We call this a portfolio approach.
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