ABGi Grant Funding: Innovate UK SMART grants & ISCF Transforming Foundation Industries

Current innovation funding competitions available through ABGi:

Innovate UK SMART grants

Innovate UK’s open grant programme is designed to fund ambitious, disruptive R&D projects with strong commercialisation potential in the UK and overseas.

SMART GRANTS CAN SUPPORT:

• Early stage feasibility studies.
• Industrial research.
• Experimental development.

TO LEAD A PROJECT, YOUR ORGANISATION MUST:

• be a UK registered business of any size or a research and technology
  organisation (RTO);
• carry out your research and development (R&D) project activity in the UK;
• intend to commercially exploit the project results from the UK;
• be, or collaborate with, at least one small or medium sized enterprise (SME).

Funding is available for projects between 6 and 36 months and eligible project costs between £25,000 and £2.0million

APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED AS PART OF REGULAR COMPETITIVE ROUNDS, THE CURRENT ROUND CLOSES TO APPLICATIONS ON 25TH NOVEMBER 2020.

ISCF Transforming Foundation Industries

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of £8 million in grant funding for projects supporting recovery and growth of the UK’s foundation industries.

The ISCF/Innovate UK programme will help the UK’s foundation industries to remain competitive and become more environmentally sustainable.

YOUR PROPOSAL MUST FOCUS ON RESOURCE OR ENERGY EFFICIENCY
THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF:

• long-term viability of domestic supply chains
• new markets
• new business models
• new products and services
• new processes

Your project must not focus on fuel switching or technologies for the capture of emissions, such as carbon capture and storage.

Project should have eligible costs between £100,000 and £1.0million.

APPLICATIONS CLOSE 4TH NOVEMBER 2020.

For more information contact Georgina Andrew on 07494 499 954 or email [email protected]

www.abgi-uk.com