Dates:
- Competition closes: 26 June 2024, 11am
- Applicants notified: 02 September 2024
- Project start date & duration: start by 01 November 2024 for up to 5 months
Scope
Proposals must conduct a technical and economic feasibility study associated with the development and demonstration of on-vessel technologies, infrastructure technologies or both. You must plan for the real world demonstration or deployment developed in your project to be operational by the end of 2027.
Projects must:
- underpin a future demonstration, delivering a meaningful technology, route to market, or supply chain innovation and, achieve market potential through a clear strategy for commercialising the technology and the products, demonstrating the potential for significant value to the UK
- illustrate emissions reduction by demonstrating a significant potential greenhouse gas reduction or significant air quality improvements
- bring together a team with necessary expertise/ experience to successfully deliver the project objectives, include at least one representative end user e.g., vessel operator, port or harbour authority
Specific Themes
Focus can be on one or more of the following: vessel optimisation and smart efficiency technologies; vessel efficiency focused on data, software or autonomy; autonomous vessels including subsystems; sensor and robotic systems within port environment and on vessel; smart maintenance operations technologies; port and shipyard operations optimisation and digitisation; digital tools; big data and AI, how new business models can create value in maritime sector and for optimisation/ planning of maritime traffic; smart shipping safety and skills.
Projects that will not be funded
Projects that are not focusing on significant potential greenhouse gas reduction or significant air quality improvements. Projects focusing on: fuel production; only on fossil fuel powertrains of maritime vessels; marine conservation and ecology; personal watercraft (PWC); creation of open access research facilities in clean maritime/ smart shipping; submarines/ submersible vessels; military applications; covered by existing commercial agreements to deliver the proposed solutions; duplicate of existing innovation.
Eligibility
- Subsidy Control and EC State Aid funding rules apply
- Project must be led by a UK business, of any size, and collaborators must be UK based organisations
- R&D work must be carried out in the UK and project results exploited from UK.
- Subcontractors are allowed, preferably UK-based, with appropriate and justified costs.
Funding Rates
- Total eligible project costs between £75,000 and £750,000 (£8M pot).
| Organisation size | Experimental Development (TRL 2-3) |
|---|---|
| Micro/small business | <70% |
| Medium sized business | <60% |
| Large business | <50% |
Research organisations in your consortium can share up to 50% 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.
