United Kingdom: Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge Fund

Deadline: 29-Sep-21

The Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) Challenge fund will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, to invest up to £1.5 million in innovation projects.

This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). Projects must address the resource productivity or energy performance opportunities of the sector and its supply chains.

The aim of this competition is to improve the competitiveness of the Foundation Industry sector by helping it to become more environmentally sustainable.

Your proposal must focus on the development of new:

markets
business models
products and services manufactured by the sector
products and services created by suppliers to the sector
processes

Themes

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

energy costs and optimisation such as heat or energy recovery and reuse
process measurement, optimisation and digitisation, such as sensor technology or digital tools
waste recycling, utilisation and symbiosis, such as reuse of waste or industrial symbiosis

Funding Information

Project size: Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £25,000 and £75,000.

Eligibility Criteria

Your project must:
- have total eligible costs between £25,000 and £75,000
- start on 1 February 2022
- end by 31 January 2023
- last between 3 and 12 months
- carry out all of its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
Lead organisation
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must be a UK registered SME business
- Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.
Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
  - business of any size
  - academic institution
  - charity
  - not-for-profit
  - public sector organisation
  - research and technology organisation (RTO)
- 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.