To ensure that the UK remains at the pinnacle of civil aerospace
innovation, organisations are invited to express an interest in a
competition worth £150 million a year with their ideas for
pioneering aerospace design and manufacturing projects. The best
projects will then be invited to apply for grant funding.
The competition is part of the UK Aerospace Research and
Technology programme, a joint £3.9 billion investment between
government and industry, which will help strengthen the UK’s
leading position in civil aerospace.
Innovate UK, the Aerospace Technology
Institute and Department for Business,
Energy and Industrial Strategy will coordinate and
manage the programme.
Aerospace of the future
This competition provides funding for industrial research or
capital investment projects. They must:
- strengthen UK whole-aircraft design and system integration
- future-proof systems technologies in the UK – specifically,
smart, connected and more electric aircrafts
- secure the UK’s world-leading position in large, complex
aviation structures, particularly wings
- advanced the next generation of propulsion technologies,
particularly large turbofans
Projects must align with priorities within the UK Aerospace
Technology Strategy.
- the competition will open on 4 March 2019, and the deadline
for expressions of interest is at midday on 20 March 2019
- UK-based business, research and technology groups and
academic organisations can be the project lead, depending on the
project type
- businesses could attract up to 50% of project costs for
industry-led research projects. Single applicants in capital
investment projects and partners in industry-led research
collaborations could attract up to 100%
- organisations must sign up to the ATI framework
agreement
