Deadline: 1-Mar-23
Local authorities can apply for a share of up to £6 million to build skills and capabilities to accelerate local progress towards net zero.
The aim of this competition is to support local authorities in up to 20 places and fund a dedicated Net Zero Innovation and Delivery officer role. The funding will help you to further develop your net zero delivery plans, improve delivery pathways and enable adoption at scale of innovative products and services.
You must:
- Demonstrate a knowledge of your understanding of the challenges in delivering your net zero plans
- Create and recruit a Net Zero Innovation and Delivery Officer role within the local authority
- Describe the support that will be offered to the Net Zero Innovation and Delivery Officer role within the local authority
- Demonstrate senior level support and commitment for the Net Zero Innovation and Delivery Officer role
- Include details of a previous net zero case study, that identifies your areas of need, how you tackled them and how the lessons learnt would create further impact
- Explain how innovation would improve your approach to non-technical barriers
- How you would use the grant funding to invest in specific initiatives to identify and define improvements in non-technical barriers.
Specific Themes
- You must identify a potential project that you will implement your programme learning and innovative approaches on.
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Your project must focus on:
- Identifying and addressing human, process and non-technical barriers, not infrastructure and technical barriers
- Demonstrating the impact that these alternative approaches can make through application within a live project
- Delivering net zero activities relating to heat, power, mobility or manufacturing.
Funding Information
- Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £250,000 and £300,000.
Eligibility Criteria
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Your project must:
- Have total grant funding request between £250,000 and £300,000
- Start on 1 July 2023
- End by 30 June 2025
- Last for 24 months
- Carry out all of its project work in the UK
- Recruit and have a suitable candidate ready to take on the “Net Zero Innovation and Delivery Officer” role before commencement of the project
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Lead Organisation
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To lead a project or work alone your organisation must be a UK Local Authority.
- The term local authority includes, county councils, district councils, unitary authorities, metropolitan districts and London boroughs. Regional collaborations coordinated through bodies such as combined authorities are also eligible.
- Eligible local authorities can work alone or in collaboration, including collaborations of local authorities.
- Parish councils, community councils and town councils are not eligible to apply as a lead but can be a collaborative partner.
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To lead a project or work alone your organisation must be a UK Local Authority.
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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)
- Local authority
- Community groups
- Health authorities
- Education establishments.
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To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
For more information, visit Innovate UK.