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1. Title: NATEP: HELPING SMES INNOVATE IN AEROSPACE, SPRING 2020 – FUNDING2. Awarding Authority: Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, GB Tel: 03003214357. Email: support@innovateuk.ukri.org / info@natep.org.uk. (Competition Helpline)3. Contract type: Service contract4. Description: The specified micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for industry led civil aerospace research projects.The Awarding Authority, is working with the Aerospace Technology Institute and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Up to £10 million will be invested in NATEP (National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme) for aerospace innovation projects as part of the ATI programme. In this competition we are investing up to £2.5 million.The aim of this competition is to provide help for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop innovative aerospace technologies. These will enhance your capabilities and increase your ability to win new business.This competition is the second of 4 rounds. We plan to open the others every 6 months. The last round is scheduled for spring 2021.Your proposal must align with the priorities stated in the UK Aerospace technology strategy, Accelerating Ambition. The competition closes at midday 12pm UK time on the deadline stated.Who can applyState aidAny UK registered business claiming funding must be eligible to receive state aid at the time we confirm you will be awarded funding. If you are unsure please take legal advice. For further information see our general guidance.Your projectYour project’s total eligible costs must be between £100,000 and £300,000. Your project’s total grant must be less than £150,000. If your organisation is a UK registered business, or a research and technology organisation (RTO) participating as a business, you must show that in your answer you can provide match funding from entirely private sector sources, across all projects you are involved in.Your project must:be collaborativebe led by a UK registered SMEProjects must start by 1 November 2020 and end by 30 April 2022. They can last between 12 and 18 months.Lead organisationTo lead a project your organisation must:be a UK registered SMEcollaborate with other UK registered businesses, research organisations, public sector organisations or charitiesplan to carry out its project work in the UKintend to exploit the results from or in the UKWe primarily expect to fund businesses that are new to research and development (R&D) or are restarting R&D activity.Academic institutions, charities, public sector organisations, and RTOs cannot lead.Project teamAll project partners must sign up to the Aerospace Technology Institute framework agreement to allow data sharing with the Aerospace Technology Institute.To collaborate with the lead organisation your organisation must:be a UK registered business, academic institution, charity, public sector organisation or RTOplan to carry out its project work in the UKintend to exploit the results from or in the UKbe invited to take part by the lead applicantThe lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding and enter their costs into the Innovation funding Service as part of the application.Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses or an end user. However, their costs will not count towards the total eligible project costs.If you are an UK registered RTO participating as a business (undertaking economic activities), you must show that the match funding you are providing comes from entirely private sector sources, across all projects you are involved in. You must also show how you will exploit the results of the project to grow the wider sector.Multiple applicationsAny one UK registered business can lead on one application and collaborate in a further 2 applications. All other organisations can collaborate on any number of applications.Previous applicationsResubmissionsYou can use a resubmission to apply for this competition. A resubmission is a proposal Innovate UK judges as not significantly different from one you have submitted before. It can be updated based on the assessors’ feedback.If you submit a new proposal this time you will be able to use it in no more than one future NATEP competition that allows resubmissions.Failure to exploitIf you applied to a previous competition as the lead or sole organisation and were awarded funding by Innovate UK or UK Research and Innovation, but did not make a substantial effort to exploit that award, we will award no more funding to you, in this or any other competition. You will not be able to contest our decision. We will:assess your efforts in the previous competition against your exploitation plan for that projectreview the monitoring officers’ reports and any other relevant sources for evidencedocument our decision, which will be made by 3 team members, and communicate it to you in writingPrevious projectsUnder the terms of Innovate UK funding, you must submit an independent accountant’s report (IAR) with your final claim. If you or any organisation in your consortium failed to submit an IAR on a previous project, we will not award funding to you in this or any other competition until we have received the documents.Your proposalThe aim of this competition is to help SMEs to develop their own innovative technologies. These should enhance their capabilities and increase their ability to win new business in the civil aerospace sector.Your project must have a credible route to market and preferably have identified your end users. Your project should:demonstrate improvement in business productivity and competitivenessshow clear benefit technicallybe able to pull through new technology or processes for use in a current or future product or manufacturing processshow clear benefit in creating or safeguarding jobsbe able to enhance capabilities within the broader aerospace industry, as well as other sectors such as advanced manufacturingWe want to fund a portfolio of projects, across a variety of technologies, markets and technological maturities.Specific themesYour project must focus on one or more of the following value streams from the UK aerospace technology strategy, Accelerating Ambition (2019)Research categoriesWe will fund industrial research projects, as defined in the general guidance.Projects we will not fundWe are not funding:projects primarily for defence, space or another industrial sector, but we will recognise dual-use technologies if the main use is in civil aerospaceprojects that cover fundamental researchprojects with scope outside of the UK aerospace technology strategy5. CPV Code(s): 73400000, 73420000, 73110000, 73100000, 734250006. NUTS code(s): UKK, UKK1, UKK147. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: UK.8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.9. Estimated value of requirement: UK micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for industry led civil aerospace research projects.Project size Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £100,000 and £300,000. The total project grant must be less than £150,000.FundingThe ATI Programme has allocated up to £2.5 million to fund innovation projects in this competition.Organisations that are primarily engaged in commercial or economic activity (known as selective advantage) as part of the project must ensure their request for funding does not exceed the limits defined below. This includes organisations that typically act non-economically but for the purpose of this project will be undertaking commercial or economic activity.Funding for each organisation is limited to:50% of your project’s total eligible costs for UK registered businesses (regardless of size) or research organisations undertaking economic activities for the purpose of this project80% full economic costing (FEC) for academics under the terms of Je-S100% of your project’s total eligible costs for non-profit research and technology organisations, public sector organisations and charities acting non-economically for the purpose of this projectNo one project partner can claim more than 70% of the total project grant funding.The UK registered research organisations in your consortium undertaking non-economic activities can share up to 30% of the total grant funding. If your consortium contains more than one research organisation, this maximum will be shared between them. Academics need to enter 80% of their full economic costs (FEC) into their application to match the costs on their Je-S form.UK registered research organisations undertaking economic activities will be treated as businesses.UK registered large businesses in your consortium can share up to 30% of the total grant funding.This competition provides state aid funding under article 25, ‘Aid for research, development and innovation’, of the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER). It is your responsibility to make sure that your organisation is eligible to receive state aid.10. Competition closes: 17.6.2020 (12:00:00).11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit: # funding opportunity