Deadline: 26-May-23
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £12 million for ambitious collaborative R&D projects to support UK materials and manufacturing organisations to become significantly more resource efficient.
The aim of this competition is to fund ambitious collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects, to support UK materials and manufacturing organisations to become significantly more resource efficient.
Simultaneous demonstrations of how UK materials and manufacturing will become more resilient or technologically advanced are encouraged.
Focus Areas
- You must focus on two or more of these five core areas:
- materials for the future economy: new material applications for cutting-edge products that reduce emissions, energy consumption and costs
- smart design: effective design methods, design for resource efficiency, and design for maximum through-life value
- resilient supply chains: sustainable feedstocks, supply chain visibility, and co-location of waste and emission streams
- world-class production: flexible production capacity, minimal material waste, high-quality products, high productivity, and full adaptivity
- longer in use and reuse: minimising materials use and waste, practicing complete traceability, and using new remanufacturing services
- Enabling areas must not be the main focus of your project. These include:
- clean energy
- regulations and policy
- skills
- relations
- value models
Funding Information
- Your project’s total costs must be between £100,000 and £1 million.
- Your project must:
- have total costs between £100,000 and £1 million
- start by 1 October 2023
- end by 31 March 2025
- last between 12 and 18 months
- be collaborative
- carry out all of its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.
Eligibility Criteria
- Lead Organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- be a UK registered research and technology organisation (RTO)
- collaborate with other UK registered organisations
- be or involve at least one grant claiming micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- 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)
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- 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.
- To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that are:
- an incremental improvement in resource efficiency or reduction of carbon emissions
- a bio-manufacture or biotechnology process
- circularity of rare earth elements
- a carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology
- technologies to directly reduce industrial energy consumption
- They cannot fund projects that are:
- dependent on export performance, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country
- dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product
For more information, visit Innovate UK.