Smart Shipping Acceleration Fund

Published on April 24, 2024

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Department for Transport (DfT) to invest up to £8 million in innovation projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping and ports. The aim of this competition is to fund detailed feasibility studies for innovative technology demonstrations of scalable smart shipping technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality.

 

Projects must conduct a technical and economic feasibility study associated with the development and demonstration of on-vessel technologies, infrastructure technologies or both. Projects must plan for the real world demonstration or deployment developed in your project to be operational by the end of 2027.

 

Projects must have total costs between £75,000 and £750,000, last up to five months, carry out all of its project work in the UK, intend to exploit the results from or in the UK, start by 1 November 2024, and end by 31 March 2025.

 

Application deadline: 26 June 2024 11:00am, If you would like to discuss this with someone in our team please message our Sector Lead, Yuchen Gu

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