Engineering Biology Collaborative R&D Round 2

Fund details

Your proposal must clearly:

• demonstrate how your innovation relates to synthetic biology
• explain how your innovation fits with one or more of the specific themes for the competition

Your project can include:

• experimental evaluation
• prototyping
• product or service development planning
• demonstrations of utility and effectiveness
• demonstrations of safety or regulatory planning

Specific themes

Your project must focus on one or more of the following:

• applying engineering biology solutions to one or more of the National Engineering Biology Programme (NEBP) themes
• development of cross-cutting engineering biology technologies or services

The NEBP themes are:

• food systems
• clean growth
• environmental solutions
• biomedicine

Innovate UK is not funding projects that are:

• fundamental research or feasibility studies
• focussed on a product that is already on the market
• conducted to anything less than the highest standards of animal welfare
• clinical trials or preclinical evaluation of therapeutics
• not focussed on the competition themes

Eligibility

Your project must:

• have a grant funding request between £70,000 and £350,000
• start on 1 February 2024
• end by 31 January 2025
• last between 6 and 12 months
• carry out all of its project work in the UK
• intend to exploit the results from or in the UK

Funding 

Up to £6.7 million has been allocated to fund innovation projects in this competition. Funding will be in the form of a grant.

If your organisation’s work on the project is commercial or economic, your funding request must not exceed the limits below. These limits apply even if your organisation normally acts non-economically but for this project will be undertaking commercial or economic activity.

For industrial research projects, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:

• up to 70% if you are a micro or small organisation
• up to 60% if you are a medium-sized organisation
• up to 50% if you are a large organisation

For experimental development projects which are nearer to market, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:

• up to 45% if you are a micro or small organisation
• up to 35% if you are a medium-sized organisation
• up to 25% if you are a large organisation

Talk to us today if you would like to apply for this opportunity.