Innovate UK, GB and other funders: Automotive Transformation Fund - scale up readiness validation

31/03/2022

25/05/2022

Innovate UK invites expressions of interest for its automotive transformation fund - scale up readiness validation. This supports the industrialisation at scale of a high-value electrified automotive supply chain in the UK. The total budget is £15 million. Projects may have budgets of up to £2m. Funding covers up to 70 per cent of eligible costs for micro or small organisations, 60 per cent for medium-sized organisations and 50 per cent for large organisations.

Projects must: •produce physical pilot production samples of a quantity and quality which validates the commercial viability of a technology or process for scale up; •prioritise the automotive sector, but this does not exclude spill over use in other sectors; •deliver a closeout report and ideally showcase the outputs at a trade show or be presented at a conference, prior to closure and payment of the final claim.

Lead organisations must be UK registered businesses of any size and they may collaborate with other UK registered businesses, academic institutions, charities, not-for-profits, public sector organisations or research and technology organisations. They must carry out the project work in the UK and exploit the results from or in the UK. Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.