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Opened on the 16 June 2020, this competition strand is to facilitate UK supply chain and manufacturing capability growth in power electronics, machines and drives (PEMD). This is to enable future improvements in:
Innovate UK have allocated up to £5 million to fund innovation projects in this competition.
If your organisation’s work on the project is mostly commercial or economic, your funding request must not exceed the limits below. These limits apply even if your organisation normally acts non-economically.
For industrial research projects, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
For experimental development projects which are nearer to market, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
The research organisations undertaking non-economic activity as part of the project can share up to 30% of the total eligible project costs.
Your project must:
If your project’s total eligible costs falls outside of our eligibility criteria, you must provide justification by email to support@innovateuk.ukri.org at least 10 working days before the competition closes. Innovate UK will decide whether to approve your request.
Lead organisation
To lead a project your organisation must:
Academic institutions and RTOs cannot lead.
Find out which definition your organisation falls into.
The aim of this competition strand is to facilitate UK supply chain and manufacturing capability growth in power electronics, machines and drives (PEMD). This is to enable future improvements in:
Your proposal must be able to start by 1 November 2020, show a demonstrable benefit to the UK PEMD supply chain, ideally impact on more than one application sector and demonstrate future return on investment.
Your project must be stand-alone with clear deliverables and must be exploitable through future activities.
Innovate UK are looking to fund a portfolio of projects, across the breadth of the supply chain for power electronics, machines and drives that help us to achieve the objectives for the Driving the Electric Revolution challenge.
Manufacturing process development, such as:
Design for manufacture, such as:
Circular economy, including:
Innovative testing and validation processes:
Click here to discuss your application with one of our expert grant bid writers or visit Innovate UK to find out more.
For more information on this grant, please visit: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/648/overview
Alternatively, contact us if you'd like to know whether your project would likely qualify for this grant.
This post was written by Dr Rehman Rafiq who is Senior Consultant at Myriad Associates. Click here to read more about Dr Rehman and the Myriad team.
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