Deadline: 23-Dec-22
The Innovation in Digital Engineering – Materials Sector (IDEMS) programme offers businesses of any size unique access to the latest technologies and highly skilled staff in the fields of Data, Modelling and Simulation, and AI, powered by the latest generation of High Performance Computing and Cloud facilities and platforms.
Through IDEMS aim to fast track the development of new capabilities, enabling productivity growth and global competitiveness of the UK materials sector.
The programme leverages £230 million investment in the Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI) and industry direction is provided by the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC). The Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation is a collaboration between the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Hartree Centre and IBM.
The Innovation in Digital Engineering – Materials Sector (IDEMS) programme will provide digital design and integration expertise to support companies in development of materials with enhanced or new functionality for mobility and energy applications.
Scope
- The IDEMS programme will provide Digital Design and Integration expertise to support companies in development of materials with enhanced or new functionality for mobility and energy applications.
- They are seeking expressions of interest that propose materials and associated innovation activity to address:
- Reduction and elimination of critical raw materials (for example in permanent magnets)
- Enhanced and new functionality for advanced sensing, energy harvesting, storage* and generation
- Lightweighting of structures
- Provenance and tracking of materials.
Funding Information
- IDEMS is offering 72 months of staff time (combined from STFC and IBM resources) and compute resources to enable the initiation of up to 8 projects (minimum 4 projects) to commence between March 2023 to June 2023 (and conclude by June 2024). This corresponds to an allocation of approximately £2-3 M of the total HNCDI budget (£210m) that will fund STFC and IBM staff time and cloud/computing access.
- Most projects are anticipated to fall in the 6-9-month timeframe, with maximum project duration being fixed at 12 months.
Who is it for?
- They’re here to help organisations and individuals with an appetite for change, who are ready to innovate and create useful solutions, enhance, and adapt products and processes, adopt new digital technologies and expand into new markets.
- Whatever the size of your business or organisation they have an established track record working with industry, from start-ups and SMEs to large corporates, and public sector organisations such as NHS Trusts and local government.
- They also offer training on an individual and group basis.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for participation to the submission and project delivery phases, your organisation must:
- Be a UK based business of any size registered at Companies House;
- Have an engineering or manufacturing base for the relevant product in the UK or provide the relevant product or service from or in the UK;
- If “in kind contribution” is provided, carry out its project work in the UK;
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK;
- Start the project in the window between 28 March 2023 to 30 June 2023
- End the project by 30 June 2024.
For more information, visit IDEMS.