Up to £2 Million Available for Healthy Ageing Challenge

Deadline: 17-Nov-21

Proposals open for Healthy Ageing Challenge to deliver a clear game-changing service-led innovation to help people as they age, positively, actively, independently and with dignity.

Aims

The aims of this competition are to:

address the under-provision of products and services which support people as they age to remain active, independent and socially connected
support business-led, near-to-market innovations that have potential to scale
enforce good people-centred design principles
encourage proposals from businesses across the UK, by working with devolved government administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Specific Themes

Your project must focus on one or more of the following service-led innovations that:

enables self-care and new models of care for independent living
encourages sustaining physical activity for people aged 50 and over, including for instance, active travel
improves mental health
addresses the ‘common complaints’ of ageing, for example, incontinence, pain, mobility, hearing and eyesight

Funding Information

Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £500,000 and £2million.

Your project must:

deliver a clear game-changing service-led innovation, that has a significant impact on ageing positively in the UK
help people as they age, allowing them to remain active, productive, independent and socially connected for as long as possible
narrow the gap between the experience of the richest and poorest
conduct industrial research to develop new and applied knowledge leading to a solution at high technology and market readiness

Your proposal must:

be delivered as a 6 months to two-year, business-led project, with a strong emphasis on people-centred design, as tested by the design stage gate review, and an ambition to scale
identify a solution that must be sufficiently well-defined to be shaped by the initial six-month design stage gate review

Eligibility Criteria

Your project must:
- have total eligible costs between £500,000 and £2million
- start by 1 May 2022
- end by 30 April 2024
- last between 6 months and 24 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 business of any size.
- 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)