Open call for innovation – rapid impact innovation
Ministry of Defence
Closing date: 27 Apr 22
The Ministry of Defence, under the Defence and Security Accelerator programme and in partnership with Innovate UK, invites proposals for its rapid impact innovation call. This supports defence and security innovation projects, which have a realistic prospect of achieving an impact within a three-year time frame from the commencement of the project. There is an expectation that proposals will be funded only if there is a strong customer requirement and capability need for the idea. Rapid impact innovations proposals are expected to output a technology model or prototype demonstration at technology readiness level 6 or 7, at a limited scale in the hands of end users, and in the context or environment in which it is expected that they would use the solution. Whilst proposals may address any topic that is of relevance to the defence and security sector, the call also has the following innovation focus areas:
- integrate information and physical activity across all domains;
- delivering agile command and control;
- operate and deliver effects in contested domains;
- defence people – skills, knowledge and experience;
- simulating future battlespace complexity.
Applications are open to all organisation types and individuals. There are no nationality restrictions. Collaborations are particularly encouraged.
No funding limit is specified, however grants are typically worth between £100,000 and £350,000.
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Open call for innovation – security rapid impact
Ministry of Defence
Closing date: 27 Apr 22
The Ministry of Defence, in collaboration with the Home Office and the Department for Transport and under the Defence and Security Accelerator invites proposals for its security rapid impact call. This supports innovative ideas to improve the defence and security of the UK. The purpose of the call is to find proposals that address challenges faced by government stakeholders. Security rapid impact innovations proposals are expected to output a technology model or prototype demonstration at technology readiness level 6 or 7, at a limited scale and in the context or environment in which it is expected that the solution would be used. Whilst proposals may address any topic that is of relevance to the defence and security sector.
Applications are open to all organisation types and individuals. There are no nationality restrictions. Collaborations are particularly encouraged.
No funding limit is specified, however grants are typically worth between £100,000 and £350,000.
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Drucker challenge essay contest
Peter Drucker Society Europe
Closing date: 14 May 22
The Peter Drucker Society Europe invites submissions for the Drucker challenge essay contest. This recognises an essay addressing topics related to passion economy, in which individuals are neither wage slaves nor gig serfs, but engage with digital technologies to leverage their own unique aptitudes and passions to forge a livelihood on their own terms.
Applicants must be 18 to 35 years old and must not have been selected more than once among the top ten submissions since 2010. Students may be part-time or full-time students studying for a bachelor, master, MBA or PhD degree. Professionals may be a manager of people, projects, budgets or processes, an entrepreneur or business owner, a licensed professional or a social volunteer or community leader.
The first prize includes €2,000 and second and third prize include €1,000 each. First to tenth place also receive a complimentary virtual respectively in-person pass and funding for travel expenses, if health regulations allow, for the global Peter Drucker forum and a one-year all-access subscription to the Harvard business review.
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SMART call on advanced manufacturing
EUREKA
Closing date: 24 Jan 23 (Forecast)
EUREKA invites applications for its SMART call on advanced manufacturing. This enables manufacturing enterprises to adapt to global competitive pressures by developing the necessary technologies to support advanced manufacturing across a broad range of sectors. Furthermore, this call promotes collaborative, international and close-to-market research and development and innovation projects in the area of advanced manufacturing. Projects must have a civilian purpose.
This call is for manufacturing technologies across the following domains:
- advanced manufacturing processes;
- smart and adaptive manufacturing systems;
- digital, virtual and efficient companies;
- person-machine collaboration;
- sustainable manufacturing;
- customer-based manufacturing.
Consortia consisting of two different partners from two different participating countries may apply.
Each country will fund its eligible participants within the Eureka framework. The budget of the different partners must be balanced.