Deadline: 22-Feb-23
The Innovate UK is inviting applications for ATI Programme Funds for industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.
The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.
The ATI Programme represents to date a £3.2 billion joint government and industry investment to maintain and grow the UK’s competitive position in civil aerospace.
This programme is co-ordinated and managed by:
- The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
- Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation
- The Aerospace Technology Institute.
Focus Areas
- Your proposal must align with the UK Aerospace Technology Strategy, ‘Destination Zero’, which is split into these areas:
- Zero-Carbon Emission Aircraft Technologies: Zero-carbon emission technologies are focused on propulsion and infrastructure development to enable zero-carbon tailpipe emissions. This encompasses battery, hydrogen, and fuel cell technologies, much of which are in early stages of development.
- Ultra-Efficient Aircraft Technologies: Ultra-efficient technologies are focused on improving energy efficiency and hence impact CO2 emissions, NOx and noise. Continued development of crucial high value, sustainable, high productivity manufacturing technologies will position the UK to be a first-choice location for the industry.
- Cross-cutting Enabling Technologies: To enable both the zero-carbon and ultra-efficient opportunities, the UK must develop cross-cutting enabling technologies and capabilities for whole aircraft design and analysis. These capabilities should extend to the aircraft lifecycle from design, through manufacture & assembly, operation,and end of life.
Funding Information
- The ATI Programme has been allocated £685 million from the government for the financial years 2022 to 2023 through 2024 to 2025 to fund innovation projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- Lead Organisation
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
- Be a UK registered business of any size for research projects
- Be a UK registered business of any size, a research and technology organisation (RTO), research organisation or academic institution for capital infrastructure projects
- Carry out your aerospace research or capital infrastructure project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- Address the specific requirements of the UK’s Aerospace Technology Strategy
- Sign up to the Aerospace Technology Institute framework agreement
- Claim funding
- To lead a project or work alone 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:
- Your organisation must:
- Carry out its project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- Be invited to take part by the lead applicant
- Sign up to the Aerospace Technology Institute framework agreement
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that focus:
- Solely on defence, space or other industrial sectors, but they will recognise dual use technologies providing the primary application is in civil aerospace
- On fundamental research, early stage technologies or experimental development
- 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.
