Deadline: 7-Jun-23
UK registered organisations, collaborating with at least one German SME applying under the equivalent German ZIM programme, can apply for a share of up to £4 million for collaborative research projects resulting in innovative solutions.
The aim of this competition is to support UK and German business-led collaboration in innovation with grant funding. Innovate UK will support UK businesses to collaborate successfully with German counterparts and build your global growth prospects.
Your collaborative R&D proposal must demonstrate:
- A clear game-changing or disruptive innovative idea leading to new products, processes or services
- A strong and deliverable business proposal within your application that addresses and documents, market potential and needs
- Sund, practical financial plans and timelines
- Good value for money
- How you intend to deliver significant economic impact, return on investment (ROI) and growth through commercialisation, within 2 to 3 years of project completion
- Clear potential to significantly benefit the UK economy or national productivity
- The benefit of participants from the countries working together and how this adds value
- A clear definition of where intellectual property (IP) can be used and shared between the participants and Aountries
- A clear route to market within 2 to 3 years of project completion.
Funding Information
- Your project’s UK partners grant funding request must not exceed £400,000 in total.
Eligibility Criteria
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Your project must:
- have a maximum grant funding request of £400,000 for all UK partners
- start by 1 December 2023
- end by 30 November 2026
- last between 12 months and 36 months
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Lead Organisation
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To lead a project from the UK side your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- collaborate with at least one German registered SME applying to the ZIM programme, which must be a separate legal entity, not linked to the UK partners
- be or involve at least one UK micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
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To lead a project from the UK side your organisation must:
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Project Team
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To collaborate with the UK lead and request grant funding from Innovate UK, 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)
- Each UK partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
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To collaborate with the UK lead and request grant funding from Innovate UK, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
Ineligible
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They are not funding projects that:
- once successful do not provide a collaboration agreement with a German SME who has been successful in the ZIM programme
- do not meet Innovate UK’s eligibility criteria
- They cannot fund projects that are:
- dependent on export performance
- dependent on domestic inputs usage.
For more information, visit Innovate UK.