Funding Opportunity: African Innovation Collaborations for Net Zero Places

Published October 28, 2023 · Updated October 28, 2023

Description

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £2 million in innovation projects. This activity forms part of the Net Zero Living programme.

These projects will build innovation partnerships and demonstrate urban solutions to accelerate a just transition to net zero. We are looking for demonstrations of the collaborative solutions developed, that target clearly identified challenges or needs, in the UK market, the African partners market, or both.

The aim of this competition is to:

accelerate the innovations needed to create new or improved net zero solutions in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and the UK
test and demonstrate solutions which support a socially just and inclusive net zero transition
create equitable partnerships between net zero innovators in the UK, and their counterparts in three target African markets
share lessons and experience on how challenges are addressed in different innovation ecosystems in order to develop more successful joint approaches and to broaden the reach of existing approaches

Funding

Your total eligible project costs must be between £150,000 and £300,000.

Eligibility

Your project must:

have total eligible project costs between £150,000 and £300,000
have one or more partner businesses that are registered and operating in one or more of the three target African markets
have partner costs for the African partners that are between 40% and 50% of the total eligible project costs
last between 6 and 12 months
intend to exploit the results from or in the UK or Africa
start by 1 April 2024
end by 31 March 2025

For more information: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1748/overview/b3fbf5e9-c249-4768-aec3-159f0c478974#summary

Competition closes: Wednesday 22 November 2023 11:00am