Deadline: 2-Oct-22
The UK Space Agency is inviting applications from organisations that are interested in developing their launch technology, products, services or capabilities.
The Launch UK Technology Investment Program is the UK Space Agency's new fund established to support the development of technology within the UK's launch supply chain.
The program will provide grant funding to UK project teams to support the development of their technology, products, services and capabilities.
Objectives
The objectives of the fund are to:
- Build on strengths in the UK launch supply chain
- Fill gaps in the launch supply chain
- Build resilience and expand the UK's launch supply chain
- Fund innovative ideas
Themes
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The call is open to any theme within the launch sector, including:
- Technology development
- Capability development
- Service and product development
- Marketing of products
- Testing products/technologies
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Proposals welcomed include:
- Establish a new innovative technology, product or service and/or new IP within the launch sector
- Developments in launch related technologies, products, services or capabilities
- Fundamental research
- Feasibility studies
Funding & Duration Information
- The UK Space Agency grant amount per project will lie between £10,000 and £400,000 for project deliverables to be completed by March 2023 (FY 22/23).
- UK Space Agency reserves the right to also consider proposals that may be above the maximum amount stated.
Eligible Projects
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Including projects that:
- May be high risk but have the potential for high returns
- Will deliver tangible TRL step changes
- Have collaboration between UK industry, UK academia and/or other UK research organizations
- Demonstrate clear benefits to the UK space sectors, such as jobs, supply chain development or skills development
- Offer high knowledge spill-over
- Offer high potential for global exports or products and/or services
- Offer advancement of new approaches in space science
Eligibility Criteria
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Proposals must demonstrate a high probability of successfully meeting the aims of the opportunity.
- The projects must be led by a UK organization.
- Proposals must be within the theme of spaceflight – any other proposals will not be considered within this funding call.
- Proposals must demonstrate that the investment sought from the UK Government represents clear value for the UK public, through measurable benefits for the UK economy, and bring in additional value through catalysing investment.
- All projects will need to demonstrate that they have an effective structure in place for managing the administration of the grant requested and demonstrate that they have a sound approach to planning to achieve their program aims on time and within budget.
- Where there is change in project leadership ie a new project Lead/prime, this must be communicated to UK Space Agency at least six weeks before the submission date supported with written agreements from the project consortium and the previous Lead organisation.
- Partner organizations within a project may be amended to reflect changes in the project's next phase. Where there are new partners, the project Lead is responsible for ensuring they have a full understanding of the grant conditions and financial eligibility.
- As part of the application for funding, applicants must review and accept the terms of the UK Space Agency's published Grant Funding Agreement (GFA).
- During the down selection process, projects may be asked for further evidence and clarification questions on request – final reports, additional questions on technical, financial and management plans.
- Applicants will need to save their final application and supporting documents in their allocated SharePoint folder, before the deadline for submission of project proposals. Access to the folders will be limited to three nominated user names (maximum) from the Lead organization. Access to the SharePoint folders will be closed once the call deadline has passed. Please ensure that you are able to use SharePoint and raise any queries well before the deadline so that alternative arrangements can be made if necessary.
For more information, visit UK Space Agency.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/call-for-project-proposals-launchuk-technology-investment