Deadline: 11-Jan-23
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4 million for a demonstration of innovative technologies, services and processes for the UK’s Fashion and Textile sector.
The aim of this competition is to fund a research and development activity demonstrator. This will demonstrate new technologies, services, processes and business models capable of addressing the recycling and sorting challenges, as part of the UK’s fashion and textile sector and their direct supply chains.
Your project must support a demonstration of innovation at an industrially relevant scale, which will:
- Increase the proportion of postconsumer fashion and textiles that are retained in a closed loop system
- Increase the market value of processed post-consumer fashion and textiles
- Reduce the proportion of post-consumer fashion and textiles which is sent to landfill, destroyed or exported
- Develop and disseminate best practices in technologies, services, processes and business models to wider industry and policy makers.
Specific Themes
- Your project must focus on mixed fabrics.
- In addition, they also encourage applications focussing on one or more of the following materials:
- Wool
- Cotton
- Polyester.
Funding Information
- Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £3 million and £4 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- Have a grant funding request between £3 million and £4 million
- Start by 1 June 2023
- End by 31 March 2025
- Last between 18 and 22 months
- Carry out all of its project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- 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)
- Involve at least one academic institution (can be non grant claiming)
- Involve at least one relevant trade association (can be non grant claiming)
- 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
- Research and technology organisation (RTO)
- Public sector organisation
- Not for profit
- Charity.
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that:
- Do not focus on the fashion and textile sector and their immediate supply chains
- Respond only to the skills and needs of the fashion and textile sector
- Are not primarily undertaking industrial research
- Are solely capital or infrastructure projects
- Include marketing
- 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.