Engineering Biology Collaborative Research and Development Round 1 UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7million to develop Engineering Biology (EngBio) technologies, processes, products and services, or apply Engineering Biology to societal challenges. Eligibility This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations. To lead a project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. Open now Opened: 30 January 2023 Closes: 29 March 2023
Programme: Innovate Uk
Award:
Opens: 30 January 2023
Closes: 29 March 2023
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £7 million in this Engineering Biology collaborative research and development (CR&D) competition. This competition is part of UKRI’s National Engineering Biology Programme (NEBP).
The aim of this competition is to deliver business led research and development (R&D) that will:
Your proposal must align with one or more of the NEBP themes or focus on cross cutting technology or service development. The NEBP themes are:
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process.
This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated.
Funding for this opportunity is subject to business case approval by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and HM Treasury.
Grant
Your project’s total costs must be between £100,000 and £500,000.
Your project
Your project must:
You must only include eligible project costs in your application.
Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian and Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian and Belarusian source.
If your project’s total costs falls outside of our eligibility criteria, you must provide justification by email to support@iuk.ukri.org at least 10 working days before the competition closes. We will decide whether to approve your request.
If you have not requested approval or your application has not been approved by us, you will be made ineligible. Your application will then not be sent for assessment.
Lead organisation
To lead a project or work alone your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.
More information on the different types of organisation can be found in our Funding rules.
Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.
Up to £7 million has been allocated to fund innovation projects in this competition. Funding will be in the form of a grant.
Funding for this opportunity is subject to business case approval by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and HM Treasury.
If your organisation’s work on the project is commercial or economic, your funding request must not exceed the limits below. These limits apply even if your organisation normally acts non-economically but for the purpose of this project will be undertaking commercial or economic activity.
For industrial research projects, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
For experimental development projects which are nearer to market, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
For more information on company sizes, please refer to the company accounts guidance. This is a change from the EU definition unless you are applying under State aid.
If you are applying for an award funded under State aid Regulations, the definitions are set out in the European Commission Recommendation of 6 May 2003.