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Infrastructure Systems Competition Round 2 Brokerage Event - Edinburgh
Thursday 02 February 2017
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Infrastructure Systems Competition Round 2 Brokerage Event - Edinburgh
The Knowledge Transfer Network, in partnership with Innovate UK, will be hosting a series of events across the UK to discuss Round 2 of Innovate UK's Infrastructure Systems competition.
This Brokerage Event will be a chance to hear about the scope of the competition and provide an opportunity for networking. Delegates will have the opportunity to give a short pitch on their capability offering and partner requirements.
Background
‘Infrastructure systems’ describes the systems that provide critical societal services. These include energy, mobility and those services that enable towns and cities to thrive. As these systems face increasing social and environmental pressures, we need innovation to ensure:
resilience to change
fitness for purpose in the future
optimal value from investment
Innovate UK is to invest up to £15m in projects to stimulate innovation that creates UK business growth in infrastructure systems. We want businesses to collaborate to develop new integrated solutions and new business models.
Innovate is looking to fund a portfolio of projects. These may include technical feasibility, industrial research or experimental development projects. We expect projects to range in size from total eligible costs of £25,000 to £5 million. Projects should last between 3 months and 3 years.
Projects must show significant innovation in one of our priority areas:
‘smart’ infrastructure
energy systems
connected transport
urban living
There are 2 competition options:
stream 1 allocates £5 million for projects that last from 3 months to 1 year with costs from £25,000 to £100,000
stream 2 allocates £10 million for projects lasting from 1 year to 3 years with costs between £100,000 and £5 million
Key Dates:
Competition opens: 16 January 2017
Briefing Event: 24 January 2017
Brokerage Events*: 19, 26 & 31 January 2017 and 2 & 7 February 2017
Register before noon 15 March 2017
Apply before noon 22 March 2017
Click here to find out more about this competition. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-competition-innovation-in-infrastructure-systems-round-2
Who should attend?
This event will benefit businesses, academics, researchers and local authorities involved in energy systems, resilient urban systems, connected transport systems (Autonomous Vehicles not in scope) and pulling in new technologies from digital, communications, sensors, electronics and novel materials sectors.
The events will include:
an opportunity to hear about the scope of the competition in more detail
an opportunity to network and develop cross sector partnerships for the competition
an opportunity to meet with Innovate UK for 1:1 discussions about the competition
Partnering: We will be making a one-to-one meeting facility available to delegates. Meeting Mojo enables you to book meetings with each other online, ahead of the event. This facility will open 2 weeks prior to the event and registered attendees will receive login details then. You can search or browse company/delegate listings, and request one-to-one meetings with other delegates which will take place at the event. You can also use this facility to pre-book meetings with Innovate UK and KTN.
*Other Regional Brokerage Events
19th January, Birmingham - part of the Local Innovation Landscape; Innovate UK in the West Midlands event
26th January, Liverpool
31st January, Belfast - organised by Invest Northern Ireland
2nd February, Edinburgh
Location Cosla Conference Centre, Edinburgh