Funding Competition: ATI Programme Strategic Batch – UK

The ATI programme is co-ordinated and managed by:

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

Your proposal must align with the UK Aerospace Technology Strategy, Destination Zero and is split into these areas:

• Zero-Carbon Emission Aircraft Technologies: Zero-carbon emission technologies are focused on propulsion and infrastructure development to enable zero-carbon tailpipe emissions. This encompasses battery, hydrogen, and fuel cell technologies, much of which are in early stages of development.
• Ultra-Efficient Aircraft Technologies: Ultra-efficient technologies are focused on improving energy efficiency and hence impact CO2 emissions, NOx and noise. Continued development of crucial high value, sustainable, high productivity manufacturing technologies will position the UK to be a first-choice location for the industry.
• Cross-cutting Enabling Technologies: To enable both the zero-carbon and ultra-efficient opportunities, the UK must develop cross-cutting enabling technologies and capabilities for whole aircraft design and analysis. These capabilities should extend to the aircraft lifecycle from design, through manufacture and assembly, operation and end of life.
• Non-CO2 Technologies: Developing technologies and scaling up solutions to reduce the negative effects of non-CO2 emissions. Complimenting and in some instances spanning across the existing Destination Zero roadmaps, it covers three main research areas: fuel characteristics, aircraft technologies, and knowledge data and operations.

Funding Information

• The ATI Programme has been allocated £685 million from the government for the financial years 2022 to 2023 through 2024 to 2025.

Who can apply?

• Lead organisation
  • To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
    • be a UK registered business of any size for research projects
    • be a UK registered business of any size, a research and technology organisation (RTO), research organisation or academic institution for capital infrastructure projects
    • carry out your aerospace research or capital infrastructure project work in the UK
    • intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
    • address the specific requirements of the UK’s Aerospace Technology Strategy
    • sign up to the Aerospace Technology Institute framework agreement
    • claim funding
• Project team
  • To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
    • business of any size
    • academic institution
    • charity
    • not for profit
    • public sector organisation
    • research and technology organisation (RTO)
• Your organisation must:
  • carry out its project work in the UK
  • intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
  • be invited to take part by the lead applicant
  • sign up to the Aerospace Technology Institute framework agreement
• To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.
• Your business does not have to be registered with Companies House when you apply, but it must be registered before you can receive funding.
• Non-funded partners
  • Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.
• Subcontractors
  • Subcontractors are allowed in this competition.
  • Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
  • You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you cannot use suppliers from the UK.

For more information, visit Innovate UK.