Dates:
Competition closes: Wednesday 12 February 2025 11:00am
Competition opens: Monday 25 November 2024
Project start date & duration: start by 1 September 2025/ end by 31 March 2027/ last between 6 and 18 months
Applicants notified: 02 June 2025
Scope
-a clear game changing or disruptive innovative idea leading to new products, processes or services
-good value for money/ a clear route to exploitation or commercialisation
-a clear, evidence based plan to deliver significant economic impact, return on investment (ROI) and growth through commercialisation, as soon as possible after project completion
-considerable potential to significantly benefit the UK and India economy
-the benefits of participants from the countries working together and how this adds value
Specific Themes
Your project must accelerate the development towards achieving net zero. We would particularly welcome applications that focus on: advance materials, decarbonising manufacturing, renewable energy sources, storage and distribution, decarbonising mobility.
Projects that will not be funded
We are not funding projects that: focus on military applications, are not in scope, do not have a net zero application, do not include an eligible Indian partner, do not meet Innovate UK’s eligibility criteria, dependent on export performance/ dependent on domestic inputs usage.
Eligibility
-the majority of the project work must be undertaken in the UK and India.
-the consortium must include at least one business registered in India.
-must demonstrate a balanced technological contribution by the participants from both countries and must be equally significant to all participants.
-must demonstrate a clear intention to commercially exploit the results of the project domestically or globally.
Funding Rates
Total eligible project costs between £100,000 and £300,000 (£2M pot).
| Project maturity (up to but not including commercialisation) | ||
| Organisation size | Feasibility
(TRL 2-3) |
Industrial Research (TRL3-5) |
| Micro/small business | <70% | <70% |
| Medium sized business | <60% | <60% |
| Large business | <50% | <50% |
Research organisations in your consortium can share up to 30% of the 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
