Deadline: 16 April 2025
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of allocated funding for innovative Smart Shipping technologies and skills for maritime decarbonisation.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Department for Transport to invest in innovation projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. These will be to carry out innovative pre-deployment trials and feasibility studies.
The aim of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 6 is to fund pre-deployment trials and feasibility studies into clean maritime technologies and skills that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Competition Strand
- Strand 3: Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 6 – Smart Shipping
- The aim of Strand 3 is to fund detailed feasibility studies and pre-deployment projects focused on using digital technologies to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality in the maritime transport sector.
Themes
- Your project can focus on one or more of the following maritime transport themes:
- maintenance and inspection within the maritime transport sector
- improvements in port operations
- vessel design optimisation
- Smart Shipping safety and skills
- vessel operations optimisation
- vessel route-planning and scheduling for efficiency
- interaction with other transport modes, maritime being the clear focus
- assurance systems including establishing processes, measurements, systems and risk based approaches to assure the safety and operational competence of Smart Shipping systems
- In addition, one or more of the following Smart Shipping areas must be a core part of the proposed work:
- data: including using data captured in a novel way or as part of an innovative approach, solution or product
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): including the use of AI either as new AI development, or as a novel application of existing AI
- automated systems: including the development of automated solutions, both hardware and software
- connectivity and Position Navigation and Timing (PNT): including innovative use of telecommunications systems such as future networks, hybrid network systems and satellite networks. Innovative PNT devices and solutions, including quantum technology.
- Quantum Computing (QC): including using QC to improve existing solutions, products or to develop a new QC approach or solution
- sensing or monitoring solutions: including the use of innovative devices and systems to provide sensing capability or the ability to monitor a system or vessel, this includes quantum technologies
- digital twins: including creating digital models of real world systems or objects enabling bi-directional feedback
Funding Information
- Up to £30 million has been allocated to fund innovation projects in this competition. Funding will be in the form of a grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project
- Your project must:
- have total costs between £75,000 and £2 million
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- last up to seven months
- start by 1 September 2025
- end by 31 March 2026
- Your project must:
- Lead organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- collaborate with other UK registered organizations
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- 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)
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
For more information, visit Innovate UK.
