ATI programme: R&D funding for smaller business, expression of interest, Autumn 2020
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8 million to carry out industry-led civil aerospace collaborative R&D projects
Opportunity Details
When
Registration Opens
09/11/2020
Registration Closes
06/01/2021
Award
This is an expression of interest: a successful application will allow you to apply for the full competition in which funding will be awarded. Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £300,000 and £1.5 million. Up to 70% of costs can be covered, depending on your organisation's size.
Organisation
Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI)
Up to £8 million is allocated from the ATI Programme for SMEs to deliver world leading aerospace technologies in the UK. This supports and encourages industrial investment into the aerospace sector and its supply chain, through the funding of innovative and high impact projects. These projects will demonstrate forward-looking and disruptive solutions to UK civil aerospace challenges.
This phase is for expressions of interest. The full stage competition will open on 1 March 2021.
Only successful applications from the expression of interest competition will be invited to apply for the full stage competition. Successful applications from this competition will be reviewed alongside the successful full stage applications.
Your project must:
- have total eligible costs between £300,000 and £1.5 million
- start by 1 September 2021
- end by 31 August 2024
- last between 12 and 36 months
- involve a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- have a creditable route to market
- identify end-users
- address the priorities stated in the UK Aerospace Technology Strategy, “Accelerating Ambition”
Lead organisation
To lead a project your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- collaborate with other UK registered businesses, research organisations, research and technology organisations (RTO), public sector organisations or charities
- carry out its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
Academic institutions, charities, public sector organisations or research and technology organisations (RTO) cannot lead.
Project team
To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business, academic institution, charity, public sector organisation, research organisation or RTO
- involve a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- carry out its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
When a business leads on an application it can collaborate in a further 2 applications.
If a business is not leading any application, it can collaborate in up to 3 applications.
An academic institution, charity, public sector organisation, research organisation or RTO can collaborate on any number of applications.
We are not allocating any funding in this competition. If you are successful in this expression of interest stage you will be invited to apply into the full-stage competition.
Your proposal must align with the UK Aerospace Technology Strategy, ‘Accelerating Ambition’, which is split into these areas:
- vehicles: strengthening the UK’s whole-aircraft design and system integration capability, and positioning it for future generations of civil aircraft
- advanced systems: developing UK advanced systems technologies to capture high-value opportunities in current and future aircraft
- aerostructures: ensuring the UK is a global leader in the development of large complex structures, particularly wings
- propulsion and power: advancing a new generation of more efficient propulsion technologies, particularly large turbofans
- cross-cutting enablers: developing high value design capabilities, advanced materials, manufacturing and assembly, and advanced through-life engineering technologies
An online briefing event will be held on Tuesday 16th November at 10am: join here (direct Zoom link).
KTN held a briefing day on 2nd November: watch the recording here.
For any further queries, please contact the KTN Transport team.