DTI announces £100m for next round of Technology Programme
Tue 15 March 2005
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The Department of Trade and Industry has announced £100m for the next round of the Technology Programme. The Programme has been established to help and encourage UK firms and researchers to get new ideas off the drawing board and into the marketplace.
The funding is intended to benefit the automotive, energy and aerospace sectors and is to be particularly focused on climate change alleviation and zero emission technologies.
Announcing the latest round of funding, Lord Sainsbury urged UK firms and research communities to prepare to apply for the latest competition of funding from the DTI's Technology Programme, which is worth £320m in total.
A new feature of the Technology Programme will be a £30 million fund, specifically earmarked to create demonstrators of next generation technologies in industries like aerospace and automotive.
The £100 million of funding will be available for companies to carry out Collaborative Research and Development in eight high-priority technology areas. They are:
* Advanced Materials: high performance materials in extreme and hostile environments. Materials that are reliable and effective under severe operational conditions, such as aggressive or safety critical environments;
* Biopharmaceutical bioprocessing - a key technology that uses a wide range of techniques in the development and manufacturing of bioscience-based medicines;
* Advanced Manufacturing: Direct writing - a technology used to produce or deposit materials on complex two or three-dimensional structures;
* Advanced Manufacturing: Next generation lasers aimed at the manufacturing, healthcare and security industries;
* Emerging Energy Technologies - technologies that can help the sustainable development of new and renewable energy sources;
* Zero Emission Enterprise - developing new technologies to reduce or eliminate creation of wastes, find new ways to re-use and recover waste products, treatment of hazardous wastes, and finding new alternatives to landfill;
* Validation of Complex Systems - aims to maximise the exploitation of complex assembly systems, especially useful in sectors such as automotive, aerospace and energy; and
* Micro & Nanotechnology: Nano-structured materials technology - nanostructured materials that address security and crime prevention.
The competition opens on Monday 25 April and the deadline for submitting applications is Monday 13 June 2005.
Related Links
Further information about DTI Technology programme
Link for organisations interested in applying for funding
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