Science and Technology Facilities Council: Cross-Cluster Proof of Concept Call 2024

This Call invites proof of concept projects from any area related to the STFC-supported Clusters in Space, Energy, Health and Life Sciences, Quantum, Digital, and Defence and Security.

Your project must be business-led, collaborative, and involve one or more project partners from Harwell or Sci-Tech Daresbury Campuses. We are keen to support multi-disciplinary projects, although it is not a requirement of funding.

The Cluster model encourages collaboration, knowledge sharing, and pushes innovation in key sectors contributing to driving productivity and growth in the UK economy.

The aim of this funding is to stimulate business engagement and collaboration with organisations in the Clusters at Harwell and Sci-Tech Daresbury. Anchored to the critical mass of expertise, talent and capabilities on-site, Harwell Campus currently hosts four rapidly growing clusters in Space, Health, Energy and the new Quantum Cluster. Sci-Tech Daresbury hosts the North West Health Cluster, North West Space Cluster and Digital Tech Cluster.

If you have a proof-of-concept project that develops new knowledge, technologies, products or services, then through collaborating with Campus and Cluster organisations, this Call offers the opportunity to access networks and state of the art facilities to develop and validate new ideas as well as the potential to explore technology spill-over and collaboration. A grant of up to £45k (match funded cash/in-kind) is available for 3-month projects.

To hear how you can participate and benefit from this year’s call, a webinar was held on 18 September: you can find the webinar recording here and the passcode is !6Vb=JGi

Please email CrossClusterPOC@stfc.ac.uk to request an application pack or for any general queries.

All applications must be completed in full and submitted along with supporting documentation by 5:30pm on 16 October 2024.