Funding Competition: BridgeAI Supply Chain Demonstrator – UK

The aim of this competition is to develop a product or process that enables data from micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and large organisations to be shared in a trust less environment. The product or process must enable the development of new Artificial Intelligence solutions for the benefit of supply chain efficiency and firm level productivity. The output of these projects must be in the form of a demonstrator.

Your project must demonstrate clear monetisation strategies that incentivize data sharing and business models that span benefits across organisations and sectors.

They will fund late R&D projects that will demonstrate benefits for at least two of the three BridgeAI target sectors:

• transport, logistics warehousing
• agriculture, food processing
• construction

Specific Themes

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

• federated database systems
• data access layers
• novel privacy enhancing technologies and differential privacy systems
• multimodal AI
• data interoperability

Project Size

• Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £1.9 million and £2 million.

Who can apply?

• Your project
  • Your project must:
    • last between 14 and 16 months
    • carry out all of its project work in the UK
    • intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
    • start by 1 December 2024
    • end by 31 March 2026
  • Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian or Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian or Belarusian source.
• Lead organisation
  • To lead a project your organisation must:
    • be a UK registered business of any size, research and technology organisation (RTO) or not for profit
    • collaborate with other UK registered organisations
    • involve at least two grant claiming micro, small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
    • involve at least two grant claiming large organisations from different BridgeAI target sectors
• 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)
• 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.
  • All subcontractor costs must be justified and appropriate to the total project costs.

For more information, visit Innovate UK.