Deadline: 19-Apr-23
UK registered businesses and Canadian SMEs can apply to collaborate on joint research and development projects. These will advance the development of quantum technologies and enable their commercial use cases.
The aim of this competition is to strengthen collaborative research and development (CR&D) through Canadian and UK partnerships towards commercialising quantum technologies.
Your project must demonstrate:
- A focus on co-development, adaptation, or validation of an innovative product, process or technology that has commercial potential and outcomes
- Quantified performance objectives
- A plan for future exploitation
They particularly encourage projects that:
- Involve consortia which span the supply chain of service or component suppliers, integrators, and end user businesses
- Progress quantum technology from lab prototypes to industry ready systems for commercial use through integration of innovative and scalable technologies.
Specific Themes
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Your project must focus on one or more of the following:
- Sensing and imaging
- Component and sub system technologies supporting communications, computing and networking
- Scalable solutions such as chip scale quantum photonic and optoelectronic systems
- Software hardware codesign for reproducible quantum processor enhanced applications.
Funding Information
- The total grant for all UK partners can be up to £450,000 for each application. NRC IRAP will provide a contribution of up to CA$500,000 to each eligible Canadian SME participating in the project.
Eligibility Criteria
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Your project must:
- Have a grant funding request of no more than £450,000 allocated to UK organisations
- Have a grant funding request of no more than CA $500,000 allocated to each eligible Canadian small or medium sized enterprise (SME)
- Start by 1 September 2023
- End by 31 August 2025
- Last between 12 and 24 months.
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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 business of any size
- UK registered academic institution
- UK registered research and technology organisation (RTO)
- Canadian small or medium sized enterprise (SME)
- Canadian research organisation.
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To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following:
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Canada Specific Rules
- Canadian funding applicants are required to register and submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) to the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP). You must be successful with your EoI before being eligible to apply for this competition.
- The EoI registration deadline for Canadian SMEs is 31 January 2023 and the submission deadline is 15 February 2023.
- Canadian funding applicants who do not complete an EoI and have not been invited to proceed will not be eligible for funding through this competition.
- Please see the NRC IRAP competition page for more information in English and French on Canadian eligibility requirements and to register when the EoI opens on 21 November 2022.
Ineligible
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They are not funding projects that are:
- Not covered by any of the four specific themes
- Market research, road-mapping or landscape studies
- 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.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1364/overview/ef108637-af32-4bc0-aa07-0aa7f50853bf