Innovate UK, GB and other funders: Power electronics machines and drives – strand 2, manufacturing process development

29/09/2022

07/12/2022

Innovate UK through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, invites applications for its power electronics machines and drives manufacturing scale-up: strand 2 manufacturing process development. This supports manufacturing process development projects that enable the scale-up of PEMD manufacturing to develop a resilient, cross-sectoral, UK supply chain for these enabling technologies critical for net zero. This strand (strand 2), manufacturing process development, aims to fund innovative process development projects that impact manufacturing cost, capability and efficiency to grow resilient manufacturing PEMD supply chains. Grants are worth between £50,000 and £800,000 each. Up to 70% of project costs are funded for industrial research projects.

Automotive Engineering; Electric & Hybrid Vehicles

UK registered businesses of any size may apply as project lead. Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone. To collaborate with the lead the organisations must be a UK registered business of any size, academic institution, charity, not for profit, public sector organisation, or research and technology organisation. The project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Subcontractors are allowed in this competition, but are limited to no more than 20% of the organisation’s total eligible costs.