UK - Germany Bilateral: Collaborative R&D Round 3
UK registered organisations, collaborating with at least one German SME, can apply for a share of up to £4m for projects in emerging technologies.
Opportunity Details
When
Registration Opens
07/02/2024
Registration Closes
03/06/2024
Award
Your project’s maximum grant funding request must not exceed £500,000. This can cover up to 70% of costs, depending on project type and business size.
Organisation
Innovate UK
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with The Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), (The Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs And Climate Action), to invest up to £4 million in innovation projects.
The aim of this competition is to enhance UK and German collaborations and capabilities in the emerging fields of technology in our society. This is to develop and deliver new innovations and applications of the technologies across a broad range of sectors.
We want to fund a variety of projects across a range of sectors and technology areas. We particularly encourage applications from the following emerging technology areas (not an exhaustive list):
- Quantum
- AI
- Semiconductor Applications
- Engineering Biology
- Future Telecommunications
- Green Technologies (including hydrogen and battery technologies)
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To lead a project your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- be or involve at least one UK micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- collaborate with at least one German registered SME applying to the German ZIM programme, which must be a separate legal entity, not linked to the UK partners
Each German project partner must submit a separate, individual ZIM application to BMWK.
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 two further applications.
If an organisation is not leading any application, it can collaborate in up to three applications.
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Your project must:
- have a maximum grant funding request of £500,000
- last between 18 and 36 months
- carry out the majority of its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- start on 1 December 2024
- end by 30 November 2027
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The aim of this competition is to enhance UK and German collaborations and capabilities in the emerging fields of technology in our society. This is to develop and deliver new innovations and applications of the technologies across a broad range of sectors.
Your project must demonstrate:
- a clear game-changing or disruptive innovative idea leading to new products, processes or services
- a strong and deliverable business proposal within your application that addresses and documents, market potential and needs
- sound, practical financial plans and timelines
- good value for money
- how you intend to deliver significant economic impact, return on investment (ROI) and growth through commercialisation, within 2 to 3 years of project completion
- clear potential to significantly benefit the UK economy or national productivity
- the benefit of participants from the countries working together and how this adds value
- a clear definition of where intellectual property (IP) can be used and shared between the participants and countries
- a clear route to market within 2 to 3 years of project completion
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Innovate UK will hold an online briefing event on Friday 9 February, starting at 2pm: register to attend.
If you would like help to find a German or UK collaboration partner, contact Innovate UK KTN’s Global team or the relevant sector team:
- Quantum
- AI
- Semiconductor Applications – Electronics team
- Engineering Biology
- Future Telecommunications – Digital team
- Green Technologies