Dates:
Competition closes: 9 October 2024, 11am
Applicants notified: 7 November 2024
Project start date & duration: by 1 July 2024 for 12-24 months
Scope
Your project must demonstrate: Your project must demonstrate innovative solutions, using second generation quantum technologies to solve end user problems in the measurement of position, navigation, and time. You must support navigation in satellite denied environments, or where high levels of integrity are required, creating resilience in all contexts. You must demonstrate these technologies in an environment representative of the intended use. single photon generation and detection are in scope. Your project must:
- Exploit the capabilities of second-generation quantum technologies
- Plan to demonstrate a Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) system that is quantum-based in an end-user relevant environment
- Involve a project partner that is a customer or procurer of the system
- Be capable of being readily integrated into systems serving specific application areas, for example, underwater, underground, aviation, power distribution, or financial markets
- Deliver an innovative, competitive technical solution
- Show realistic plans for future commercialisation and the potential for manufacturing at scale
- We recognise that in timing measurement only, which may be deployed in a financial institution building, a laboratory can represent a relevant environment.
Specific Themes
Your project must focus on one or more of the following:
- quantum technologies for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT)
- quantum-enabled sensing for navigation applications
- exploiting the capabilities of second generation quantum technologies, defined as those involving the generation and coherent control of quantum states
Projects that will not be funded
Do not exploit the generation and coherent control of quantum states resulting in superposition or entanglement; do not involve a project partner that is a customer or procurer of the system.
Eligibility
Include at least one UK registered SME, any organisation can lead. If the lead organisation is an RTO it must collaborate with two businesses, one SME, and one business of any size.
Funding Rates
A project can request between £100,000 to £600,000. We have allocated up to £6 million to this competition. RTOs can share up to 30% total project costs.
| Project maturity | |
| Organisation size | Feasibility Study / Industrial Research |
| Micro/small business | <70% |
| Medium sized business | <60% |
| Large business | <50% |
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
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