Technology Programme

Over the period 2005-2008, £320 million is available to businesses in the form of grants to support research and development in the technology areas identified by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB). In the Spring and Autumn each year, businesses have the opportunity to compete for funding for Collaborative Research and Development projects.

Autumn 2007 call - Phase 3 of this call is open

There are seven technology areas, phased as follows:

Phase 1
Opens 8 November 2007 / Closes 14 February 2008

Materials for Energy
High Value Manufacturing
Cell Therapy

Phase 2
Opens 19 December 2007 / Closes 27 March 2008

Low Carbon Energy Technologies
Advanced Lighting, Lasers and Displays
Technologies for Health

Phase 3
Opens 30 January 2008

Spring 2007 call - this call is now closed

The competition opened on 24th April 2007 and the submission for outline applications is 18th June 2007. The Technology Priority Areas are :

Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing
Energy Technologies - Low Carbon Energy Technologies / Oil and Gas Technologies
Lightweight Materials and Structures
Plastic Electronics: Materials Processing and Systems Integration
Smart, Bioactive and Nanostructured Materials for Health
Networked Enterprise

Key Dates

Competition opens : 24th April 2007

Registration of intention to submit an application : 11th June 2007

Submission of outline academic partner finance forms : 14th June 2007

Submission of outline application forms and outline industry partner finance forms : 18th June 2007

Autumn 2006 call

The full list of technology priority areas is:

Network Security - Human Vulnerabilities in network Security
Moving Towards the Zero Emission Enterprise - A challenge to business to reduce their diverse negative environmental impacts
Emerging Energy Technologies: Low Carbon Energy Technologies
Bioscience & healthcare: Technologies for Development and Manufacture of Biopharmaceuticals
Sensors and Imaging for medical, Security and Environmental applications
Plastic Electronics: Novel Materials Deposition and Patterning Techniques

Funding Opportunities

3CR is interested in hearing from companies wishing to participate in a collaborative research and development projects. If you want to discuss a project proposal or idea please contact us.

For background information, please note that:

3CR would like bids to lie between £1m and £3m (total project costs) with between 75% and 25% being donated by industry (depending on the type of research undertaken) and have a duration of between 1 year and 2 years. Project partners can consist of business and University (B2S) or only businesses (B2B).

In the case of advanced research and experimental development projects (as defined by the DTI) there must be an Industry lead partner who has a good understanding of the commercialisation route for the results of the research.

Bids will only succeed which score highly against the criterion of the call.