Dates:
Competition closes: 15 January 2025, 11am
Applicants notified: 13 February 2025
Project start and duration: Start by 01 May 2025 and last 3-11 months
Scope
Projects must investigate the feasibility of potential solutions to issues encountered by your organisation or the industry, in introducing CAM technologies or services. Projects must strengthen the capabilities of the UK CAM supply chain by: evaluating the technical feasibility of using specific technologies, systems or vehicles towards no user in charge (NUIC) ready platforms; or provide a detailed and evidenced pathway to overcoming key barriers to adoption of CAM services; or produce an outline business case for CAM technologies and services which focus on opportunities that could operate commercially, without safety drivers, at a specified location in the UK.
Specific Themes
Projects must focus on one of the following themes: 1) Technical concepts – vehicle platforms and technology: Feasibility studies which target the introduction of NUIC ready platforms, 2) Overcoming barriers: Feasibility studies to identify and address one or more key barriers towards the safe and secure removal of the safety driver, 3) CAM Service – Enabling Near-Term CAM Opportunities: Feasibility studies to produce an outline business case for a CAM service. This must focus on opportunities that could operate commercially without safety drivers at a specified location in the UK.
Projects must: investigate viability, evaluate technical requirements, investigate legal compliance, investigate financial modelling and evaluate investment needs and customer interest, for near term deployment. Limited trials are allowed only to support the investigation of feasibility of the service.
Projects that will not be funded
Connected vehicle technologies which are not specific to automated vehicles, micro goods vehicles, indoor or pavement based robots or vehicles, technologies specific to all rail vehicles, water borne craft, drones or aircraft, developing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) or Driver Control Assistance Systems (DCAS) unless there is a clear route to full vehicle automation.
Eligibility
- Subsidy Control and EC State Aid funding rules apply
- Project must be led by a UK business, of any size or a public sector organisation (local authority or transport authority) or an RTO. Must collaborate with up to three other UK registered organisations.
- R&D work must be carried out in the UK and project results exploited from UK.
- Subcontractors are allowed, preferably UK-based. Combined subcontractor costs must not exceed 30% of the total grant requested.
Funding Rates
- Total eligible project costs between £50,000 and £250,000 (£2M pot).
- Micro/Small – up to 70% funding, medium – up to 60%, large – up to 50%.
Research organisations in your consortium can share up to 30% of the UK total eligible project costs.
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.
For further information or to discuss a project idea please contact PNO Consultants
0161 488 3488 | info.uk@pnoconsultants.com
