Deadline: 14 March 2018
Ufi Charitable Trust is seeking applications for its VocTech Seed 2018 to support projects that show the potential to have a real impact in the world of vocational learning, and to ultimately make a difference to how people learn and to the number of people gaining new skills. To achieve this, projects need to offer high quality, innovative solutions that are flexible and adaptable to future change; are cost effective and could improve business efficiency. Projects must aim to improve outcomes for learners and improve the quality of vocational teaching and training.
The VocTech Seed fund helps create a pipeline of new learning solutions by supporting innovative and creative projects at an early stage of development, enabling new ideas to reach a point where they can demonstrate their potential to customers or funders and reach the market.
This is part of Ufi’s work to encourage greater awareness of the potential for vocational learning solutions – encouraging digital innovators to explore the market for voctech solutions and providing evidence to potential investors of the range and scale of opportunities in voctech.
Projects must:
- Focus on vocational learning
- Provide an innovative digital solution to a defined learning issue
- Offer new learning tools, not just new learning content
- Understand who the users and the customers will be and the likely route to market
- Have ambition for the future growth of the project and a vision for how it could be scaled up to impact on a large number of learners
- Have a plan for business sustainability beyond the period of Ufi funding
- Be realistic and deliverable within the timeframe
Funding Information
Up to £50,000 is available for projects of up to 12 months duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- The VocTech Seed funding is particularly suitable for early stage businesses, smaller digital innovators and other organisations looking to test new digital approaches on a small scale. It is also suitable for digital innovators currently working in other markets who can see opportunities to adapt their approach to vocational learning. It may be particularly useful to edtech businesses looking to expand their products and series to delivery to the voctech market.
- However, it is open to all organisations, including charities, trade bodies, existing learning providers and employers who would like to test new approaches to using digital technology for vocational learning. Applications can be strengthened by demonstrating a collaborative approach, especially where employers and digital learning specialists are working together.
- The majority of organisations Ufi fund are UK-based. Ufi will consider applications from outside the UK if they can clearly demonstrate how they will address vocational learning challenges faced in the UK. Ufi only fund projects that can demonstrate their impact in the UK.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit VocTech Seed 2018.