Engineering Biology Collaborative R&D Round 2
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £6.7m to develop Engineering Biology technologies, processes, products, services, or solutions to societal challenges.
Opportunity Details
When
Registration Opens
30/05/2023
Registration Closes
26/07/2023
Award
Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £70,000 and £350,000. This can cover up to 70% of your total project costs depending on business size and project type.
Organisation
Innovate UK
UKRI
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £6.7 million in this Engineering Biology collaborative R&D competition. The competition is part of UKRI’s National Engineering Biology Programme (NEBP).
The aim of this competition is to deliver business led research and development that will:
- lead to new engineering biology products, processes or services
- de-risk the adoption of new engineering biology technologies that offer high market potential
Your proposal must align with one or more of the NEBP themes or focus on the development of cross cutting technology or service development. The NEBP themes are:
- food systems
- biomedicine
- clean growth
- environmental solutions
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To lead a project or work alone your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.
To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- business of any size
- academic institution
- charity
- not for profit
- public sector organisation
- research and technology organisation (RTO)
A business can only lead on one application but can be included as a collaborator in a further 2 applications.
If an organisation is not leading any application, it can collaborate in any number of applications.
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Your project must:
- have a grant funding request between £70,000 and £350,000
- start on 1 February 2024
- end by 31 January 2025
- last between 6 and 12 months
- carry out all of its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
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The aim of this competition is to deliver business led research and development that will:
- lead to new engineering biology products, processes or services
- de-risk the adoption of engineering biology technologies that offer high market potential
The funding support will help to accelerate the development and adoption of engineering biology technologies and techniques and by doing so provide solutions to societal challenges.
For the purpose of this competition, engineering biology refers to the:
- development or use of synthetic biology using engineering principles to design and fabricate biological components and systems
- adoption of synthetic biology in industrial processes and development of tools and technologies that support synthetic biology
Your proposal must clearly:
- demonstrate how your innovation relates to synthetic biology
- explain how your innovation fits with one or more of the specific themes for the competition
Your project can include:
- experimental evaluation
- prototyping
- product or service development planning
- demonstrations of utility and effectiveness
- demonstrations of safety or regulatory planning
We encourage you to collaborate with the UK research base and help to grow the UK’s Engineering Biology ecosystem.
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Your project must focus on one or more of the following:
- applying engineering biology solutions to one or more of the National Engineering Biology Programme (NEBP) themes
- development of cross cutting engineering biology technologies or services
The NEBP themes are:
- food systems
- clean growth
- environmental solutions
- biomedicine
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An online briefing will be held at 2pm on Thursday 1st June: click here for the joining link.
If you would like help in finding a collaboration partner, contact Dana Heldt, KTM for Engineering Biology.