The World Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE) is encouraging innovators from throughout the UK to submit proposals to a serious new rail innovation competitors earlier than functions shut subsequent week.
The Innovation in Railway Building Competitors is providing groups as much as £7.44 million of funding for innovation concepts that may be examined on the GCRE facility in South Wales. Entries for the primary section of funding shut at midday on 14th December.
The competitors is being run by Innovate UK, a part of UK Analysis and Innovation (UKRI), alongside GCRE and the Division for Enterprise, Vitality and Industrial Technique (BEIS) within the UK Authorities. The competitors is making funding out there for initiatives that suggest, ship and reveal innovation in railway development.
The present spherical is the primary section of a possible two section competitors.
Section 1 is making out there funding for feasibility research of as much as £25,000.
Section 2 potential invite solely competitors for profitable section 1 initiatives to develop and reveal their improvements.
GCRE Chief Government Simon Jones stated:
“I’d encourage everybody focused on collaborating on this distinctive competitors to make use of this final week to finalise their proposals and submit their entries by midday on 14th December.
“Working with the workforce at Innovate UK we’re excited on the inventive concepts and new applied sciences that may be developed via this competitors. The World Centre of Rail Excellence in South Wales is among the most unusual infrastructure initiatives anyplace in rail at the moment and we’re proud to be a house for this fund.
“When it begins operation in 2025, GCRE can be a facility that allows world class analysis and testing of latest infrastructure, rolling inventory and rail know-how proper right here within the UK. Will probably be a ‘one cease store’ for the business, offering an innovation area fairly not like some other in Europe, filling a vital hole in rail that may assist cut back prices within the business and help decarbonisation.
“GCRE is a spot that can carry individuals and concepts collectively and so this Innovate UK fund gives an ideal dwelling, serving to develop new concepts that may help the railway of tomorrow.”
Extra element on the fund and the best way to apply might be discovered on the UK Authorities web site: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competitors/13#51/overview/bdd3a659-97a5-4fd2-8450-0244297defdb
For these desirous to enter the primary section of the competitors, initiatives should:
- Have a complete grant funding request of as much as £25,000
- Have whole challenge prices of as much as £40,000
- Begin by 1st Might 2023
- Finish by thirty first July 2023
- Last as long as 3 months
- Perform all of its challenge work within the UK
- Intend to use the outcomes from or within the UK
Simon Jones added:
“This funding alternative actually is exclusive. It’s not typically that you just get a chance to develop a brand new thought and embed it in a world class infrastructure challenge because it’s being constructed. So I’m encouraging everybody to make use of this final week to finalise their functions and get their proposals in.
“We’re actually wanting ahead to working with the gifted individuals and the attention-grabbing concepts that we all know will come via this competitors.”
