Deadline: 2-Jul-25
As part of the Made Smarter Innovation Challenge (MSI), Innovate UK will invest up to £2 million in innovation projects to examine the feasibility of developing new industrial digital technologies.
These are for micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) manufacturers to improve their energy or resource efficiency that would lead to a more productive, resilient and sustainable sector.
Specific Themes
- Your project must focus on one or more of the following.
- Energy efficiencies:
- boilers and steam
- air compressors or vacuum
- motors, drivers, pumps or hydraulics
- induction or welding
- chilling or freezing
- spray, extraction or dryers
- ovens, kilns or furnaces
- heavy machinery or presses
- Resource efficiencies:
- raw material waste
- production process waste
- packaging waste
- maintenance or service station waste
- utilities waste
- end of life waste
- Energy efficiencies:
Funding Information
- Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £25,000 and £100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- To work alone your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.
- To lead a collaborative project, your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.
- 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
- research and technology organisation (RTO)
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- To be an eligible collaborator, the lead and at least one other organisation must:
- apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.
- include rationale for the collaboration and describe the structure in your application
- ensure any one collaborator does not account for more than 70% of the total eligible costs
- Subcontractors
- Subcontractors are allowed in this competition.
- Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
- You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you cannot use subcontractors from the UK.
- You must provide a detailed rationale, evidence of the potential UK contractors you approached and the reasons why they were unable to work with you. They will not accept a cheaper cost as a sufficient reason to use an overseas subcontractor.
For more information, visit Innovate UK.