Dates:
- Competition closes: 19 June 2024 11am
- Applicants notified: 30 July 2024
- Project start date & duration: Start from 01 November 2024 (6-18 months)
Scope
Your project must demonstrate:
- a clear game-changing or disruptive innovative idea leading to new products, processes or services
- a strong and deliverable business proposal within your application that addresses and documents, market potential and needs
- sound, practical financial plans and timelines; good value for money
- how you intend to deliver significant economic impact, return on investment (ROI) and growth through commercialisation, within two to three years of project completion
- clear potential to significantly benefit the UK economy or national productivity
- the benefit of participants from the countries working together and how this adds value
- a clear definition of where intellectual property (IP) can be used and shared between the participants and countries; a clear route to market within two to three years of project completion
Specific Themes
Your project must focus on one or more of the following:
- quantum sensing for applications such as industrial instrumentation, clinical devices, imaging, resource mapping, geological or oceanographic survey
- industrial products, processes, or services to advance scalable solutions such as chip scale quantum, photonic and optoelectronic systems for applied quantum technologies
- technologies for scaling quantum compute, for example, but not limited to, qubit processor, switching, networking, control systems, cryogenics
Projects that will not be funded
do not involve or use ‘second generation’ quantum technologies, including the generation and coherent control of quantum states, resulting in phenomena such as superposition/entanglement.
Eligibility
Include at least one UK registered SME, be collaborating with at least one European Union Member State-registered organisation of any size, with no one country or project partner can represent more than 70% of the total project costs.
Funding Rates
- A project can request a maximum of £600,000. We have allocated up to £3 million to this competition.
| Project maturity (up to but not including commercialisation) | ||
| Organisation size | Feasibility Study / Industrial Research | Experimental Development |
| Micro/small business | <70% | <45% |
| Medium sized business | <60% | <35% |
| Large business | <50% | <25% |
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.
