Deadline: 4-Nov-22
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6 million for projects that grow activities in the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region. This funding is Minimal Financial Assistance (MFA) from Innovate UK.
The businesses must be active in, or growing their work activities in, the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region.
This Launchpad pilot competition supports the Government’s goals in the Levelling Up White Paper. The projects will also contribute to Liverpool City Region’s ambitions for local research and development (R&D) spending to reach 5% of gross value added (GVA) by 2030 and achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040 or sooner.
Specific Themes
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Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
- Next generation materials: for cutting-edge products, lower emissions, reduced energy consumption, lower costs.
- Smart design: effective design methods, design for resource efficiency, design for maximum through-life value.
- Resilient supply chains: sustainable feedstocks, supply chain visibility, symbiotic industrial processes.
- High-value production: flexible production capacity, high quality products, high productivity, full adaptivity.
- Longer in use and reuse: minimal materials use, minimal waste, complete traceability, remanufacturing or value retention services.
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Projects can also consider key enabling themes:
- Digital technologies.
- Clean energy.
- Proactive regulations and policy.
- Future skills.
- Networked relations.
- Evolving value models.
Scope
- The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects by businesses active, or growing their work activities, in the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region.
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Your project must contribute to transforming the manufacturing sector, which requires a systems approach that:
- Advances net zero and resource efficiency
- Exploits digital and technologically advanced manufacturing
- Strengthens resilience and responsiveness in supply chains
- Your project must commercialise knowledge through innovation activities, and lead to increased investment into research and innovation. It must contribute to growing business activities, and generating economic impact within the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region.
Funding Information
- Your project’s total costs must be between £25,000 and £100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
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Your project must:
- Have total project costs between £25,000 and £100,000
- Start by 1 April 2023
- End by 31 March 2024
- Last between 3 and 12 months
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- You must only include eligible project costs in your application.
- Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian and Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian and Belarusian source.
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Lead organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- Be a UK registered small medium enterprise (SME).
- Be active in, or growing your work activities in, the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region.
- Have a demonstrable ambition for business growth.
Projects they will not fund
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They are not funding projects:
- That do not contribute to transforming the manufacturing sector,
- Where the work location does not add to the advanced manufacturing innovation cluster centred on Liverpool City Region.
- That involve primary production in fishery and aquaculture.
- That involve primary production in agriculture.
- With activities relating to the purchase of road freight transport.
- Not allowed under De minimis regulation restrictions.
- Not allowed under Minimal Financial Assistance.
- With total project costs of below £25,000 or above £100,000.
- That are dependent on export performance, for example giving an award to a baker on the condition that they export a certain quantity of bread to another country.
- That are dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example if they give an award to a baker on the condition that they use 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/1204/overview/ac6d303e-a080-45cb-b4b3-b2f6ac12fdfc
