Who it’s for

To lead an industrial research and technology project, your organisation must:

• be a UK-registered business of any size for research projects
• carry out your aerospace research project work in the UK
• intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
• address the challenges outlined in UK’sDestination Zero (UK’s aerospace technology strategystrategy), – Destination Zero, that must include specific requirements set out in the ATI’s non-CO2 technologiestechnology roadmap
• sign up to the ATI framework agreement
• claim funding

Your business does not have to be registered with Companies House when you apply, but it must be registered before you can receive funding.

Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example, non-UK businesses. Their costs will not count towards the total eligible project costs but must be included in your application.

More information on the different types of organisations can be found onin Innovateour UK’s (IUK) website under funding rules. We accept single applicant-ledapplicant led projects, though encourage collaborative project applications.

What you can get

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The ATI Non-CO2 ProgrammeIndividual ispartners athat 2-stageare competition: conducting commercial or economic activities as part of the project, which may include research organisations, can request grant funding of up to:

• stage70% 1:if outlineyou stage 

  are a small or micro organisation
• 60% if you are a medium-sized organisation
• 50% if you are a large organisation

stageThe 2:UK-registered research fullorganisations in stageyour applicationconsortium undertaking non-economic activities can share up to 30% of the total project costs.

If your consortium contains more than one research organisation, this maximum will be shared between them. Of that 30% you could get funding for your eligible project costs of up to:

• 80% of full economic costs if you are a Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) registered institution such as an academic
• 100% of your project costs if you are a research and technology organisation (RTO), charity, not for profit organisation, public sector organisation or research organisation

Organiser

The ATI Non-CO2 Programmeprogramme is coordinated and managed by:

• the Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
• IUK,Innovate UK (IUK), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
• ATI

This funding stream is also linked to a wider Aviation Non-CO₂ Programme managed in partnership by DBT, the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).