Funding opportunity: Foundation Industries Lab to Lab India Collaboration

The Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge, part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, to invest up to £400,000 in innovation lab to lab projects, to develop virtual networks and explore UK and India capabilities for the foundation industries.

The aim of this competition is to:

• develop close ties with counterparts in India
• further your work and develop technologies to meet the challenges facing the foundation industries sector

You can include projects that:

• build virtual relationships between UK research labs and Indian research labs
• complete market development activities with Indian high growth innovation companies
• develop proposals for further project development between the UK and Indian organisations led by UK-based labs

Your proposal must outline the capabilities of your research lab to undertake this project and the scope of your project.

In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £40,000 and £80,000.

Competition opens: Monday 9 August 2021

Competition closes: Wednesday 25 August 2021 11:00am

NOTE: UK HEIs can only put in 3 applications each

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