Funder
Innovate UK: UK – Germany Bilateral: Collaborative R&D
Added date
09/02/2023
Closing date
18/04/2023
Call summary
The aim of this competition is to support UK and German business-led collaboration in innovation with grant funding. Innovate UK will support UK businesses to collaborate successfully with German counterparts and build your global growth prospects. Your proposal must contribute to the development of commercial products, processes or technical services. Your project must have an obvious advantage and added value as a result of the cooperation between the participants from the two countries. Examples of these could be increased innovation capability, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure or new fields of application. Your project’s UK partners grant funding request must not exceed £400,000 in total.
Scientific scope
The competition scope will specify the category of research and development (R&D) activity for that particular competition.
Innovate UK supports the following R&D categories:
- fundamental research
- feasibility studies
- industrial research
- experimental development.
PI eligibility
Lead organisation
To lead a project from the UK side your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- collaborate with at least one German registered SME applying to the ZIM programme, which must be a separate legal entity, not linked to the UK partners
- be or involve at least one UK micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
More information on the different types of organisation can be found in our Funding rules.
Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.