Dates:
Competition closes: 16th October 2024, 11 am
Applicants notified: 4th November 2024
Project start date & duration: 1st January 2025, lasting for 3-6 months (must end by 30th June 2025)
Scope
Funding for this EoI phase must be used to support the collaborative development of your application for the Grand Challenge phase. This includes building a consortium, convening discussions, hosting workshops, engaging communities, collaborative bid writing, desk research, consortium coordination, and developing mechanisms to gather impact and benefits data which will be required at the Grand Challenge phase.
Specific Themes (lists not exhaustive)
- Pillar 1: Green Chemistry – biocatalysis, new chemocatalysis, flow chemistry, solvent free systems, sustainable solvents, biomanufacturing (active pharmaceutical ingredients, plastics, biopolymers), and technology switches away from solid phase synthesis
- Pillar 2: Circularity – recycle and resuse of materials, identify materials with potential for circularity.
- Pillar 3: Productivity and resource efficiency – continuous processing, process intensification/streamlining, digitalisation, automation or robotics, shared data for AI/ML, analyse supply chain wate, reduction of energy use, and increasing yield, productivity, and efficiencies.
Projects that will not be funded
- activity that does not contribute to the development of a proposal for the Grand Challenge phase
- activity that an existing innovation network was already undertaking or so-called ‘business as usual’
- laboratory based experimental development
- non-human medicines
- medical device manufacturing
- involve primary production in fishery, aquaculture, or agriculture
Eligibility
- Subsidy Control and EC State Aid funding rules apply
- Project must be led by a UK business of any size, RTO, catapult centre, or public sector organisation
- Any collaborators must be a UK business of any size, RTO, catapult centre, public sector organisation, charity, not for profit, or academic institution.
- R&D work must be carried out in the UK and project results exploited from UK.
- Subcontractors are not allowed for EOI, but will be considered for the Grand Challenge phase.
- You cannot use a previously submitted application to apply for this competition.
Funding Rates
- 100% funded, maximum total project costs of £100,000. Total pot of £1Mn.
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.
