Deadline: 2-Mar-22
Innovate UK is inviting applications from eligible applicants for the APC 20: Developing automotive technologies and growing capability towards net zero program.
The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) provides funding, support and insight for the development of low carbon and net zero automotive technologies. It aims to support the UK’s transition towards net zero product manufacturing and supply chain in the UK automotive sector.
They are looking for collaborative, pre-production research and development (R&D) projects that:
- support the UK’s long-term capabilities by securing long term R&D investment
- achieve through the associated supply chain, the design, build and manufacture of zero carbon tailpipe emission vehicles
Projects must look to fulfil both these criteria to ensure the UK meets the future demand of vehicle-makers.
Project size
- Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £5 million and £40 million.
- Your project must be a minimum of 50% match funded, with a suggested maximum number of 6 partners.
Funding Information
- The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) invests up to £35 million, three times per year, in collaborative research and development (R&D) projects. These are pre-production projects and applicants should apply for the minimum amount of APC funding required to make the project viable. This can be up to 50% of total eligible project costs. In this round APC is investing £25 million.
- A minimum of 70% of your projects total eligible project costs must be incurred by commercial organisations.
- The total grant request in your application cannot exceed 50% of the total eligible project costs. This is regardless of the individual partners’ grant claims.
- Of that 50% if the majority of your organisation’s work on the project is commercial or economic, your funding request must not exceed the limits below. These limits apply even if your organisation normally acts non-economically.
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For industrial research projects, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
- up to 70% if you are a micro or small organisation
- up to 60% if you are a medium-sized organisation
- up to 50% if you are a large organisation
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For experimental development projects which are nearer to market, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
- up to 45% if you are a micro or small organisation
- up to 35% if you are a medium-sized organisation
- up to 25% if you are a large organisation
Eligibility Criteria
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Your project must:
- have total eligible costs between £5 million and £40 million
- be a minimum of 50% match funded
- start by 1 September 2022
- last between 18 and 42 months
- carry out its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
For more information, Visit APC.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1076/overview#eligibility