Funding Flash: April 2024
Each month, Space South Central aims to bring together a curated list of the latest and best funding opportunities for businesses working in the space sector across the South East.
The list is not exhaustive – for that, see the Satellite Applications Catapult’s Space Enterprise Network.
If you see an opportunity below that could be suitable for your business, reach out to the team at info@spacesouthcentral.com who will offer advice, expertise, support and connections to help you create successful bids. Since 2016, we have helped regional organisations secure £36.5M.
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C-LEO programme
Deadline: Wednesday 8 May 2024
The UK Space Agency Connectivity in Low Earth Orbit (C-LEO) programme will provide up to £160 million of grant funding and contract awards over the next 4 years to UK companies and researchers to develop innovative satellite communications technology.
Read more here.
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UK-South Korea CR&D 2024
Deadline: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) and Korean Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) to invest up to £6 million in innovation projects.
The aim of this competition is to fund business led, collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects focused on industrial research. This is for innovative proposals developed between the UK and South Korea.
Your proposal must include at least one partner from the UK and one partner from South Korea.
Read more here.
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Unlocking Space for Business
Deadline: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
The aim of the Unlocking Space for Business competition is to offer financial services and transport & logistics companies, alongside satellite data and service partners, the chance to apply for a share of up to £3.5 million, inclusive of VAT and subject to affordability, to trial new solutions that use satellite data and services to benefit their organisation
Read more here.
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Space For Infrastructure: Water Management
Deadline: Wednesday 29th May 2024
The fourth thematic area under the “Space for Infrastructure” thematic Call for Proposals is water management infrastructure.
Use cases that may be addressed through this call include (but are not limited to):
the estimation of future water usage, where, by predicting future demand, water authorities will be able to better plan the future infrastructure production needs, which will also improve the efficiency of water usage increasing the efficiencies in water treatments including for example wastewater infrastructure monitoring
facilitating preventative infrastructure maintenance to increase the grid capacity and allow for a more efficient system
supporting better-informed water policy creation and information policy decisions
monitoring water grid security and threats to infrastructure.
A webinar with more information on this call will be held on the 18th of April.
Read more here.
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Gravitational Waves consolidated grants: 2024
Deadline: Tuesday 6th August 2024
Apply for funding to support gravitational waves research.
To be eligible for this funding opportunity you must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding. In addition proposals must meet STFC’s particle astrophysics gravitational waves remit.
STFC will fund 80% of the full economic cost (FEC). Please note that some capital costs may be funded at a variable rate between 50% and 100%.
Projects will be funded for three years.
Read more here.
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