UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million for CR&D projects with South Korea in this competition. The UK funding is from Innovate UK
Description
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £4 million across the 2 Phases of this competition. Innovate UK will work with the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) who will match the UK funding to support the South Korean partners.
This is a two phase bi-lateral collaborative research and development (CR&D) competition.
The aim of this competition is to fund business led, collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects which link activities in the UK and South Korea.
Projects must focus on exploring the potential of proposed data driven innovations in cities that will deliver positive impact around key urban issues.
This competition has four themes and you must select the theme you are focused on. If your proposed solution falls outside of the first three themes, or significantly cuts across those three theme areas, you must select theme 4.
Themes:
- Mobility Innovation Solutions.
- Disaster Management Solutions.
- Net-Zero Energy Optimisation Solutions.
- Other Data-centric Innovative Solutions.
In this phase 1 competition, £1 million is available to fund UK organisations undertaking collaborative feasibility projects of up to eight months. South Korea is investing an equivalent amount to fund South Korean participants.
Projects which have successfully participated in phase 1, may be invited by Innovate UK, to apply into phase 2 of this competition.
During phase 2, your project must be collaborative and enhance your innovation with improvements through comprehensive testing and iteration in real or representative settings. You must work with potential future customers and users.
Phase 2 projects will be up to two years and the results must be commercialised at the end of phase 2.
UK registered businesses must collaborate with at least one South Korean non-linked registered business applying under the equivalent KAIA programme.
UK registered organisations must apply through the Innovation Funding Service (IFS) portal to Innovate UK.
Your South Korean partner will not receive any funding from Innovate UK.
South Korean partners must apply to, and will be funded by, KAIA for the South Korean component of the project set out in this application.
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition has a funding limit, so we may not be able to fund all the proposed projects. It may be the case that your project scores highly but we are still unable to fund it.
This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated in this Innovate UK competition brief. We cannot guarantee other government or third party sites will always show the correct competition information.
The project must be independently selected by both Innovate UK and South Korea to be awarded funding.
Specific themes
This competition has four themes and you must select the theme you are focused on. If your proposed solution falls outside of the first three themes, or significantly cuts across those three theme areas, you must select theme 4.
Themes:
- Mobility Innovation Solutions.
- Disaster Management Solutions.
- Net-Zero Energy Optimisation Solutions.
- Other Data-centric Innovative Solutions.
Background and further information
Places all face the same basic set of underlying challenges, for example, transport, energy, heating, housing, jobs. By linking international innovators who are solving similar challenges slightly differently, it can help build more robust and resilient solutions that can manage a wider range of operating conditions. This improves their effectiveness and opens wider market opportunities elsewhere to sell into.
In this programme, Innovate UK is working with the Korean Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) to establish and enhance collaborations between UK and South Korean projects to the benefit of all participants.
KAIA is the Korean Government agency responsible for advancing and promoting infrastructure technology development.
Data sharing
This competition is jointly operated by Innovate UK, and the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) (each an “agency”).
Any relevant information submitted and produced during the application process concerning your application can be shared by one agency with the other, for its individual storage, processing and use.
This means that any information given to or generated by Innovate UK in respect of your application may be passed on to KAIA and vice versa. This would include, but is not restricted to:
- the information stated on the application, including the personal details of all applicants
- scoring and feedback on the application
- information received during the management and administration of the grant, such as Monitoring Officer reports and Independent Accountant Reports
Innovate UK and the KAIA are directly accountable to you for their holding and processing of your information, including any personal data and confidential information. Data is held in accordance with their own policies. Accordingly, Innovate UK, and the KAIA will be data controllers for personal data submitted during the application.
Innovate UK complies with the requirements of UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and is committed to upholding data protection legislation, and protecting your information in accordance with data protection principles.
The Information Commissioner’s Office also has a useful guide for organisations, which outlines the data protection principles.
KAIA : R&D Plan
KAIA : Korea Research Consortium
UK : Paetner
