United Kingdom: 16th Round of Automotive Transformation Fund

Deadline: 24-Nov-21

Innovate UK has announced expression of interest (EoI) for Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF), an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) programme that aims to establish a competitive and sustainable UK supply chain.

Themes

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

• Batteries including cells (’gigafactories’)
  • cathode materials and manufacturing
  • anode materials and manufacturing
  • electrolyte
  • cell assembly components (including separators)
  • cell or module assembly
  • cell testing
  • battery pack components
  • battery pack assembly and test
• Electric motors and drives
  • magnet materials and manufacturing
  • electrical steel materials and manufacturing
  • electrical machine assembly
  • drive line components
  • assembly and test into complete drive unit
• Power electronics
  • wide band gap semi-conductors
  • sensors
  • passives
  • power electronics assembly
• Fuel cells
  • MEA
  • catalysts
  • bipolar plates
  • gas diffusion layer
  • air handling systems
  • balance of plant
  • fuel cell stack assembly
  • storage tanks
  • fuel delivery (where specifically required for development purposes)
• Upstream Supply Chain including:
  • raw materials
  • component manufacturing
  • sub-assembly manufacturing
• Recycling
  • e-motors
  • batteries
  • fuel cells
  • power electronics

The Automotive Transformation Fund provides detailed information on the specific themes of this competition.

Priorities

The ATF will prioritise support to projects that:

• can act as anchors to their respective supply chains
• are likely to lead to further investments while creating a sustainable and competitive supply chain for the future

Funding Information

• It offers a share of up to £1billion of funding for capital and associated industrial research projects. This will be to support the industrialisation of a high value, electrified automotive supply at scale in the UK.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead organisation
  • To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
    • be a business of any size
    • carry out its project work in the UK
    • intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
    • address the requirements of the Automotive Transformation Fund
    • Non-UK businesses can apply to this expression of interest (EoI) competition in reference to activities they are considering undertaking in the UK. The business must be registered in the UK before any funding can be awarded.
• Project team
  • To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following:
    • a business of any size
    • academic institution
    • charity
    • not-for-profit
    • public sector organisation
    • research and technology organisation (RTO)
• All applicants will need to be registered in the UK before any funding can be awarded.
• 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.
• If you are a collaboration the lead and at least one other organisation must request funding by entering their costs during the application.
• If you are working in a collaboration the lead and at least one other organisation must claim any funding awarded through the BEIS Central Grants & Loans Team.
• 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 eligible project costs.

For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1057/overview