Deadline: 23-Nov-22
The Made Smarter Innovation Challenge is now open to support the transformation of UK manufacturing by pioneering the development and integration of new and existing industrial digital technologies (IDTs), including artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality.
UK research organisations can apply for up to £2 million for delivery of an artificial intelligence focused manufacturing sustainability accelerator.
The challenge aims to deliver a resilient, flexible, more productive and environmentally sustainable UK manufacturing sector. It will also develop new technologies that can be exploited commercially across the manufacturing industry, worldwide.
Specific Themes
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Your project must focus on:
- Recruitment of industrial challenge owners, technology sponsors and start-up and scale-up participants to maximise impacts, for example identifying industrial challenges that are generalisable and that lead to rapidly scalable technological solutions
- Contributing to the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy in the areas of resource efficiency and energy efficiency (REEE)
- Maximising the likelihood of forms 3 and 4 follow-on co-investment.
Funding Information
- Your project’s total costs must be between £1.95 million and £2 million.
Eligibility Criteria
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Your project must:
- Have total costs between £1.95 million and £2 million
- Start on 1 April 2023
- End by 30 September 2024
- Last between 12 and 18 months
- Carry out its project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.
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Lead Organisation
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To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
- Be a UK research organisation or research and technology organisation (RTO)
- Be or involve at least one Catapult Network organisation
- Not act in any way to gain selective commercial or economic advantage from the outputs of this project.
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To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
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Project Team
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To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- 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.
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To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
Ineligible
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They are not funding:
- Projects which are classed as State aid under EC regulations or a subsidy under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
- Undertakings which gain a selective economic or commercial advantage from the funding
- Projects that do not demonstrate credible reach across the UK
- Projects that do not demonstrate engagement with manufacturers from all sectors and technology companies not currently engaged in manufacturing.
For more information, visit Innovate UK.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1329/overview/9ae43a42-88d4-4fc8-92bc-9f3b74663da5