EPSRC: ISCF digital security by design – software ecosystem development

30/09/2021

08/12/2021

Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and the digital security by design challenge, invites applications for the software ecosystem development call. This supports projects that work to enrich and expand the digital security by design software ecosystem prior to the availability of commercial hardware. Projects will leverage the digital security by design technology hardware prototype, also known as Morello board, to work on a focused area within a selected and specified software stack or an operating system (OS) or a developer toolchain used by a digital system. The total budget is £8 million. Grants are worth between £200,000 and £1.4m. For research organisation-led projects, 100 per cent of project costs can be claimed at 80 per cent of full economic costs. Industry-led projects may receive up to 80 per cent of eligible project costs.

Operating Systems; Software Engineering

The lead organisation must be UK registered business of any size or a research organisation who intend to carry out all of its project work in the UK and intend to exploit the results from or in the UK. Collaborating organisations must be a UK registered business of any size or a research organisation. If collaborating with a lead research organisation any partner who are non-research organisations cannot receive funding directly from the grant. Other partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, such as non-UK business, may be included. Any eligible organisation can lead on one application and can be included as a collaborator in any number of applications.