Launchpad Competition in the UK: Net Zero, Collaborative Research and Development, Tees Valley (Round 2)

Deadline: 29-Mar-23

Innovate UK is seeking applications for the Launchpad Funding Competition: Net Zero, Collaborative Research and Development, Tees Valley (Round 2).

The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Businesses must be active, or growing their work activities, in the net zero innovation cluster centred on Tees Valley.

Specific Themes

• Your project can focus on one or more of the following core areas:
  • hydrogen
  • carbon capture and storage
  • offshore engineering
  • materials and processing
  • the circular economy
• Projects can also consider the following enabling areas:
  • digital technologies
  • clean energy
  • proactive regulations and policy
  • future skills
  • networked relations
  • evolving value models.

Funding Information

• Your project must:
  • have a grant funding request between £150,000 and £1 million
  • start by 01 September 2023
  • end by 31 March 2025
  • last between 6 and 18 months
  • intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead Organisation
  • To lead a project your organisation must:
    • be a UK registered business of any size
    • collaborate with other UK registered organisations
    • be or involve at least one grant claiming micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
    • be active or growing your work activities in the net zero innovation cluster centred on Tees Valley
    • have a demonstrable ambition for business growth
• 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
    • public sector organisation
    • research and technology organisation (RTO)
  • The contribution of project partners must add to the growth of the cluster.
  • Each 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.
  • To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.

Ineligible

• They are not funding projects that are:
  • submitted by applicants who led a successful application in the Launchpad Tees Valley CR&D Round 1 competition
  • that do not align with the net zero theme described above
  • where the work location does not add to the net zero innovation cluster centred on Tees Valley
  • requesting grant funding of less than £150,000 or more than £1 million
• 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.