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Advanced Propulsion Centre: Technology Developer Accelerator Programme Wave 5 – The innovative solutions developed should align with one or more of the automotive council’s 5 strategic technologies, or be outside of these areas but demonstrating a strong impact potential (for example, developments that enable the accelerated advancement of low emission vehicle technologies). Read More

KTN-iX: Solutions to Understand Vehicle Use and Charging Requirements –  With 102 fire stations and an unpredictable incident schedule there is considerable complexity in optimising scheduling and charging of vehicles while maintaining the high level of service. LFB is assessing how its heavy appliances will recharge – this includes installing dedicated charging at stations, the use of public sites as well as at the site of prolonged incidents. Read More

Approaches to mitigate against stranded diesel assets – This challenge is one of two being developed and promoted at this time. A second challenge is exploring how to improve the efficiency of shore derived power to the portside operations and visiting ships. An effective means to reduce pollution and decarbonise activity in the short to medium term will be to reduce demand and eventually replace fossil fuels as the means to derive energy to power mobility. Read More

Zero Emission Pumping Power for Emergency Vehicles – One of the biggest challenges in this transition is the development of the Zero Emission Pumping Appliance (commonly known as a Fire Engine) due to the technical requirements. The pumping appliance is also one of the most important vehicles in LFB’s fleet due to its function, flexibility and numbers (each station has at least one appliance). LFB is looking for ideas/solutions that can help supply this additional power during an incident. Read More

Competition: Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle Testbed – Up to £20k will be made available to innovators who are selected from this competition, for travel and subsistence costs, and the costs of any integration and removal time. This is an opportunity for suppliers to demonstrate capabilities at high Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) of TRL 4 and above. Read More

Approaches to delivering energy supplies to Ships in Port – Efficient energy management –  Looking for innovative solutions for delivering energy efficiently to ships whilst in port: solutions must consider the availability of energy supply and the different demands of ships and port side equipment to explore efficient means of managing the electrical energy supplies, which are not infinite and are often in high demand. The opportunity is for the company to present to a panel of the major port operators. Read More

IETF energy efficiency and decarbonisation studies, Spring 2021- Organisations can apply for a share of up to £40 million to carry out feasibility and engineering studies into energy efficiency and decarbonisation technologies for industrial processes. This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations. Read More

IETF deployment of energy efficiency technologies, Spring 2021-  This competition aims to support the commercial roll out and permanent installation of technologies at industrial sites. This is the second round of the IETF Phase 1 competition. In this strand you must be an industrial business of any size to apply. You can apply on your own or in collaboration with other organisations. Your project must take place at a manufacturing site or data centre in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and be led by the operator of that site. Read More

Farming Innovation Pathways (FIP) – industrial research – The aim of this competition is to support the development of novel innovations to develop and support a productive, resilient, and sustainable agricultural sector. Your proposal must engage with farmers, growers or producers to develop farm-focused solutions. These solutions must solve the short to long-term challenges of productivity, sustainability, and net zero emissions. Read More

Commercialising Quantum Technologies: germinator projects round 1 – UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £1 million for high risk, high return, quantum technology projects with defined commercial outputs. This funding is from ISCF. The aim of the competition is to stimulate the commercialisation of quantum technologies in the UK through the development of early-stage quantum technology opportunities. Read More

ISCF Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Demonstrators – EoI – The aim of this competition is to address widely known problems in relation to plastic packaging for consumer products. Your proposal must include significant industry investment.This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.  Innovate UK expects to invest in up to 3 practical demonstrators at the full stage competition.  Read More

Farming Innovation Pathways (FIP) – feasibility studies – The aim of this competition is to support the development of novel innovations to develop and support a productive, resilient, and sustainable agricultural sector. These solutions must solve the short to long-term challenges of productivity, sustainability, and net zero emissions.” Read More

Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2021 to 2022, round 1 – This new partnership brings new skills and the latest academic thinking into the business partner to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project. The knowledge base partner will recruit 1 or 2 graduates (known as ‘associates’) to work on the project. Read More

SBRI Competition rail demonstrations: first of a kind 2021 – This competition is part of a larger ‘first of a kind’ demonstrator initiative, on behalf of DfT, to accelerate innovation in the UK rail sector and enable technologies to be readily and efficiently integrated into the railway system. This competition is the fifth in the first of a kind portfolio. Read More

UKRI: Open call for research and innovation ideas to address COVID-19 – Proposals are invited for short term projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. There is no closing date – proposals can be submitted at any time. Read More

Right On Time: Automating Military Logistics – DASA is seeking to identify innovations that can deliver a step change in military logistics capability across the Maritime, Land and Air domains. Read More

Cyber security academic startup accelerator programme year 5-phase 1: Individuals based in a UK academic institution can apply for a share of up to £800,000 to join the cyber security academic startup accelerator programme (CyberASAP). The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, to invest up to £800,000 in innovation cyber security projects coming from an academic research base. The aim of this competition is to identify the most promising commercial opportunities. Your proposal must include the area of your research, the problem that you are solving and your proposed solution. Read More

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KTN: Knowledge Transfer Manager – Design – The role leads KTN’s support for Innovate UK’s Design Strategy in promoting and embedding design across the UK economy. The role is specifically to: Generate greater industry awareness & demand across different sectors for design in innovation, Catalyse new connections and collaborations between companies that create sustainable economic value through the use of design in innovation, Build the capacity of KTN, and Innovate UK family of organisations, to enable companies’ better and earlier use of design in innovation, Contribute to developing KTN’s portfolio of tools and approaches to support innovation effectiveness across this network.  Apply

KTN: Administrator (London)- The administrator position contributes to and supports the organisational objectives of KTN by coordinating the Directorate’s functional activities; including: meetings and travel. Currently, during this extended lockdown period, this position is based from home. After the extended lockdown period, the postholder will be based out of our London Office. Apply

KTN: Administrator (Edinburgh) – The administrator position contributes to and supports the organisational objectives of KTN by coordinating the Directorate’s functional activities; including: meetings and travel. Currently, during this extended lockdown period, this position is based from home. After the extended lockdown period, the postholder will be based out of our Edinburgh Office. Apply

Conigital Group: Software Engineer – Reporting to the Tech Team Lead, you will take responsibility for developing key aspects and functions that form the backbone of our product portfolio (ConOP™). This includes development at different Technology Readiness Levels, writing functions to analyse data sets, develop prototypes releases of software (for pilots to prove concepts), and “glue” systems together to integrate different business applications. Apply

Conigital Group: Cloud Architect – Reporting to the CTO, you will translate business needs to technical requirements and specifications for cloud-based portfolio of products, while improving the efficiency and operations of SaaS products. You will support technical review and have a passion to design and improve digital solutions to be deployed at scale. Apply

ICAV Cluster: Vehicle Integration Engineer – Reporting to the Technical Director, the Vehicle Integration Engineer Will Lead and drive forward the definition and implementation of a vehicle x-by-wire interface that will be used to integrate with a vehicle automation platform. The x-by-wire solution will be designed to be configurable across several target vehicles. The role is not just about developing the software but also about defining and integrating the electro-mechanical mechanisms and interfaces with existing vehicle systems (e.g. introducing epas, e-braking etc). Apply

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The International Connected Autonomous Vehicle (“ICAV”) cluster has been set up to support new and existing businesses enter the growing Connected Autonomous Vehicles (“CAV”) market. KPMG research indicates that the CAV market has the potential to add £51 billion per year to the UK economy by 2030, create 320,000 new jobs and prevent 25,000 accidents saving 2500 lives per year. Find the latest Market Forecast report by Transport Systems Catapult here. ICAV are based at iCentrum, part of Innovation Birmingham, the UK’s third oldest science park and a base for the region’s growing Tech community.

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