Dates:
Competition closes: 29th January 2025, 11am
Applicants notified: 10th March 2025
Project start date & duration: by 1st June 2025, 6-10 months
Scope – Your project must
- Develop responsible and ethical personalised AI learning solutions to support AI competency development in the BridgeAI key sectors of: construction, transport and logistics, creative industries, agriculture and food processing.
- Accelerate sector relevant AI competency development in a responsible and ethical manner
- Support high quality education through evidence-based teaching and learning approaches
- Align proposed content with the relevant industry sector standards and the AI Skills for Business Competency Framework with a view to accreditation
- Identify proposed learning outcomes
- Support upskilling and reskilling of the existing workforce in this competition’s BridgeAI key sectors
- Identify an end user to pilot your solution
Specific Themes – Your project must focus on
- Developing AI competencies in at least one of the competition’s key sectors
- One or more of the learner personas defined in the AI Skills for Business Competency Framework, including AI Workers, AI Professionals or AI Leaders
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in AI focussed personalised learning journeys
Projects we will not fund:
- Are related to advertising and marketing
- Do not require R&D
Eligibility
- Must be led by a UK registered business of any size, with the project consortium involving at least one UK registered SME.
- Collaborators can be a UK-registered business of any size.
- Subcontractors must be UK-based and selected through your usual procurement process, with subcontracting accounting for no more than 20% of total project costs.
Funding Rates
Total grant request between £50K-£100K at the following funding rates for Category 1 Feasibility studies.
| Organisation size | Funding rate |
| Micro/small business | <70% |
| Medium sized business | <60% |
| Large business | <50% |
Research organisations within the project team can share up to 50% of total project costs (80-100% funded).
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, we are responsible for the submission of >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.
For further information or to discuss a project idea please contact PNO Consultants
0161 488 3488 | info.uk@pnoconsultants.com | https://www.pnoconsultants.com/uk/
