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ISCF Transforming Foundation Industry - Small Scale R&D Strand 2

Opens:
16/8/2021
Closes:
29/9/2021
Sectors:
Manufacturing & Materials
Project Size:
£75,000 - £250,000

Summary

The Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) Challenge fund will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, to invest up to £1.5 million in innovation projects. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). Projects must address the resource productivity or energy performance opportunities of the sector and its supply chains.

The aim of this competition is to improve the competitiveness of our Foundation Industry sector by helping it to become more environmentally sustainable.

 Your proposal must focus on the development of new:

  • markets
  • business models
  • products and services manufactured by the sector
  • products and services created by suppliers to the sector
  • processes

 

Eligibility

Your project must:

  • have total eligible costs between £75,000 and £250,000
  • start on 1 February 2022
  • end by 31 January 2023
  • last between 3 and 12 months
  • carry out all of its project work in the UK
  • intend to exploit the results from or in the UK

Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.

Subcontractors are allowed in this competition. Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.


Scope

The aim of this competition is to improve the competitiveness of our Foundation Industry sector by helping it to become more environmentally sustainable.

Your project must address the resource productivity or energy performance opportunities of the sector and its supply chains.

Your project must focus on the development of new:

  • markets
  • business models
  • products and services manufactured by the sector
  • products and services created by suppliers to the sector
  • processes 

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

  • energy costs and optimisation such as heat or energy recovery and reuse
  • process measurement, optimisation and digitisation, such as sensor technology or digital tools
  • waste recycling, utilisation and symbiosis, such as reuse of waste or industrial symbiosis

This list is not exhaustive, and other technologies or projects that clearly fall within scope of the challenge will be welcomed. 

Innovate UK will fund feasibility projects, industrial research projects and experimental development projects.


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