Deadline: 11-Jan-23
UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for industrial-led civil aerospace collaborative R&D projects.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is working with the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The aim of this competition is to provide help for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop innovative aerospace technologies. These will enhance your capabilities and increase your ability to win new business.
Themes
Your proposal must align with the UK Aerospace Technology Strategy, ‘Destination Zero’, which is split into these areas:
- Zero-Carbon Emission Aircraft Technologies
- Zero-carbon emission technologies are focused on propulsion and infrastructure development to enable zero-carbon tailpipe emissions. This encompasses battery, hydrogen, and fuel cell technologies, much of which are in early stages of development.
- Ultra-Efficient Aircraft Technologies
- Ultra-efficient technologies are focused on improving energy efficiency and hence impact CO2 emissions, NOx and noise. Continued development of crucial high value, sustainable, high productivity manufacturing technologies will position the UK to be a first-choice location for the industry.
- Cross-cutting Enabling Technologies
- To enable both the zero-carbon and ultra-efficient opportunities, the UK must develop cross-cutting enabling technologies and capabilities for whole aircraft design and analysis. These capabilities should extend to the aircraft lifecycle from design, through manufacture & assembly, operation, and end of life.
Eligible Project
Your project can:
- demonstrate improvement in business productivity and competitiveness
- show clear benefit technically
- be able to pull through new technology or processes for use in a current or future product or manufacturing process
- show clear benefit in creating or safeguarding jobs
- be able to enhance capabilities within the broader aerospace industry, as well as other sectors such as advanced manufacturing
Funding Information
- Your project’s total costs must be between £150,000 and £300,000.
- A NATEP competition is held approximately every 6 months. This is call 7 of 8 and for each call there is up to £2.5m funding available.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project
- Your project must:
- have total costs between £150,000 and £300,000
- end by 31 Dec 2024
- last between 12 and 18 months
- carry out all of its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- Your project must:
- Lead organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- be a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- collaborate with other UK registered organisations
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- 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)
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1344/overview/8dd1d702-f14b-42b3-ae16-75cd30b48ed6#summary