Grants for Building Talent for the Future

Deadline: 15-Sep-21

Innovate UK has announced applications for Building Talent for the Future.

The aim of this competition is to fund several ideas that quickly fill immediate gaps in skills, talent and training for the power electronics, machines and drives (PEMD) industry.

Your proposal must deliver a clear game-changing intervention, which would realistically and significantly meet a UK PEMD talent requirement.

Scope

Your project must demonstrate.
- an innovative, ambitious and realistic idea, to meet a significant PEMD talent requirement
- that it is innovative to the UK, a region or a specific group of people and not already available
- the capacity and capability to deliver the project successfully and on time
- value for money and a credible, evidenced return on investment, in terms of trained, upskilled and reskilled people
You can:
- produce ideas and material for outreach, engagement and learning purposes
- conduct PEMD outreach and engagement exercises to individuals, academia, industry and other groups
- generate and deliver course material or facilitate the running of courses
- provide training or incentives for training to specific groups of people or in specific training subjects

Themes

Your project must focus on one or more of the following:

supporting and promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion within PEMD technology training, manufacturing, or research
outreach and engagement material focussing on PEMD for all ages and levels in academia and industry
defining and filling key gaps in the UK’s PEMD workforce and training capability

Funding Information

Your project’s total eligible costs can be between £10,000 and £25,000. The maximum grant you can claim is £25,000.

Eligibility Criteria

Your project must:
- start on 1 February 2022
- end on 30 April 2022
- last up to 3 months
- carry out its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
Lead organisation
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
  - be a UK registered business of any size, research organisation, charity or public sector organisation
  - carry out its project work in the UK
  - intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be a UK registered:
  - business of any size
  - academic institution
  - charity
  - not-for-profit
  - public sector organisation
  - research organisation
  - research and technology organisation (RTO).