Deadline: 7-Dec-22
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million to scale up manufacturing in the power electronics, machines and drives supply chain. This strand will fund manufacturing process industrialisation to enhance volume and niche productivity.
Innovate UK’s Driving the Electric Revolution, part of UK Research and Innovation, aims to make the UK PEMD supply chain more globally competitive by investing up to £5 million in projects that enable the scale-up of PEMD manufacturing.
Strands
Manufacturing process development, which aims to fund innovative process development projects that impact manufacturing cost, capability and efficiency to grow resilient manufacturing PEMD supply chains.
Scope
Elements of the manufacturing supply chain that are considered in scope include:
- Materials processing
- Sub-component and component manufacturing
- Sub-system integration and assembly
- Final assembly of PEMD specific modules
- Remanufacturing
- End of life disassembly and recycling
Funding Information: Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £50,000 and £800,000.
Projects must be able to demonstrate that:
- The innovation will improve efficiency, productivity or flexibility of PEMD manufacturing processes
- There are potential cost and energy savings and quality benefits to their business
- They will have a positive impact on the environmental, societal and governance (ESG) performance of the PEMD supply chain
- They are exploitable through future activities
- There is a credible return on investment
- Your project outputs should ideally have potential for cross-sector impact.
Eligibility Criteria
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Your project must:
- Start by 1 May 2023
- Last between 6 and 18 months
- Carry out all of its project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- You must only include eligible project costs in your application.
- Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian or Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian or Belarusian source.
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Lead organisation
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To lead a project your organisation must:
- Be a UK registered business of any size
- Collaborate with other UK registered organisations
- Academic institutions and research technology organisations RTOs cannot lead.
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To lead a project your organisation must:
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Project team
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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)
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To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- 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.
- The lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application.
- Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.
Ineligible
They are not funding projects that are:
- Fundamental research or proof of concept
- Not collaborative
- Not industry led
- Focusing on product development
- Not developing capability that will enhance UK PEMD supply chains
- Not demonstrating a credible return on investment
- Focused around batteries
- Dependent on export performance
- Dependent on domestic inputs usage
For more information, visit Innovate UK.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1301/overview/f64a4bcf-9007-43cf-a8f1-5e6c0a5c90c9