Businesses must be active or growing work activities in the marine and maritime innovation cluster in the Great South West, defined as Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Devon, Somerset and Dorset. The projects will contribute to the Great South West’s ambitions for Net Zero targets and support key regional strategic marine and maritime markets. This competition is split into two strands:
- Launchpad: marine and maritime, Great South West – Round 2 Collaborative Research and Development (CR&D)
- Launchpad: marine and maritime, Great South West – Round 2 Minimal Financial Assistance (MFA)
Dates:
Competition opens: 02 September 2024
Competition closes: 16 October 2024, 11am
Applicants notified: 14 November 2024
Scope
Projects must focus on one or more of the following: marine autonomy; clean maritime; digital ocean technologies and contribute to growing your innovation activities in the cluster, both during and after the project.
Specific Themes
Your project must focus on one or more of the following:
- Developing or using disruptive technology to replace traditional ship-based alternatives for equipment inspection and other marine monitoring operations and enhance safety of the seas.
- achieving net zero through transition to alternative fuel powered vessels using energy from low or zero emission sources or highly efficient batteries, also integrating ports into a decarbonised energy network and supplying the fuels of the future.
- leading sensor and communications technology advancement and their connectedness and interoperability, to enhance our understanding of the ocean and the impacts from offshore operations, including in aquaculture and the emerging ocean economy. Where you can show your project fits within the competition scope, focus can be on others themes.
Eligibility
- Subsidy Control and EC State Aid funding rules apply
- Project must be led by a UK business, of any size (CR&D strand), or a UK SME working alone (MFA strand), and growing innovation activities in the marine and maritime cluster in the Great South West.
- Collaborators must be UK based and project must include at least one SME.
- R&D work must be carried out in the UK and project results exploited from UK.
- Subcontractors must be UK based, with costs justified and appropriate to the total costs.
Funding Rates
MFA: £25,000-£100,000; 6-12 months duration; CR&D: £150,000-£750,000; 6-18 months duration (3M pot)
|
Organisation size |
MFA |
CR&D | |
| Industrial Research (TRL3-5) | Experimental Development
(TRL 6-7) |
||
| Micro/small business | 100% | <70% | <45% |
| Medium sized business | 100% | <60% | <35% |
| Large business | Not eligible | <50% | <25% |
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.
For further information or to discuss a project idea please contact PNO Consultants
0161 488 3488 | info.uk@pnoconsultants.com
