Dates:
Competition closes: 9 November 2022, 11am
Invite to interview: 28 November 2022
Interviews: 12-16 December 2022
Applicants notified: 03 January 2023
Project start date & duration: April 2023 for up to 24 months
Scope
Technologies for all sizes and categories of maritime vessel are in scope, including pleasure and commercial vessels. All ports and harbours are in scope, including infrastructure for freight, passenger, pleasure and commercial vessels, and offshore infrastructure such as Wind Farms. Demonstration must include the technology or vessel being used in a representative real world operational environment for a period of at least 4 weeks. Your project must underpin a full commercial and operational technology deployment after March 2025. Projects must deliver emissions reduction by demonstrating a significant greenhouse gas reduction.
Strand 1: Develop, test and deploy on-vessel technologies or shoreside/offshore infrastructure.
Strand 2: Simultaneously demonstrate vessels and infrastructure together.
Specific Themes
Prioritised theme: Domestic green shipping corridors. Other themes:
- Vessel low and zero emission technologies such as vessel propulsion and auxiliary engines, wind propulsion, low carbon energy storage and management, physical connections to shoreside power or alternative fuels, and enabling technologies such as motors, drives, sensor and power electronics.
- Port and shoreside, including offshore solutions such as shoreside low and zero carbon fuelling, charging infrastructure and management, low and zero emission shoreside power solutions, physical connections to shoreside power or alternative fuels, shoreside renewable energy generation, zero emission shoreside power supply, low carbon fuel production, and zero emission infrastructure.
Projects that will not be funded
Projects demonstrating an international green corridor. Projects focused on marine conservation and ecology, autonomy and smart shipping, on-vessel power generation and fuel production. Capital investment only. Non-methanol biofuels, except for projects strictly focused on inland waterway vessels and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM), which includes port-side machinery. Nuclear technologies. Personal Watercraft (PWC).
Eligibility
- State aid funding rules apply.
- Projects must be led by a UK business of any size & collaborate with other UK registered organisations.
- Trust Ports can apply as a business of any size.
- All project work must be undertaken in the UK.
- All projects must intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.
- If you have been funded for a project under CMDC Round 2, you are not eligible to apply for funding In Round 3.
Funding Rates
Total eligible project costs between £1M and £8M (Strand 1), and £2M and £10M (Strand 2).
For Industrial Research you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
- up to 70% if you are a micro or small organisation
- up to 60% if you are a medium-sized organisation
- up to 50% if you are a large organisation
For Experimental Development you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
- up to 45% if you are a micro or small organisation
- up to 35% if you are a medium-sized organisation
- up to 25% if you are a large organisation
Research organisations in your consortium can share up to 30% of the UK total eligible project costs.
Research organisations in your consortium can share up to 30% of the UK total eligible project costs.
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.
