Opportunity Archives

Competition Document: Open Call for Innovation

By updatesPosted on 12th August 202012th August 2020Posted in Industry News, Opportunity, Uncategorised

What is the Open Call? The Open Call is one of the funding competition mechanisms DASA uses to find proposals that address challenges faced by government stakeholders. It gives bidders the opportunity to present their ideas to defence and security stakeholders at

Small Business Support Scheme

By updatesPosted on 4th August 20204th August 2020Posted in Member News, Opportunity

We’ve launched a Small Business Support Scheme, introducing a range of new measures to help small business boost their connectivity, cash flow and confidence – key concerns which have been identified by recent research by the from Small Business Britain and BT Skills

AE Opportunity: Aviation X Lab & Emirates – Covid 19 Traveller Wellbeing Competition

By updatesPosted on 28th July 202028th July 2020Posted in Opportunity

The Aviation X Lab alongside AREA 2071 has launched the Aviation X Lab Accelerate, a Traveller Wellbeing virtual pitching competition to find top solutions supporting travellers’ safety during and post-COVID-19. The shortlisted solutions will be invited to pitch to the Aviation X Lab council,

Kickstart Scheme for Young Unemployed

By updatesPosted on 24th July 202024th July 2020Posted in COVID19, Industry News, Opportunity

The UK government has unveiled its Plan for Jobs 2020, which outlines support that will be provided directly to people and businesses in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland through UK-wide measures. This plan is the next step towards economic recovery

KTPs – An underutilised route to innovation and collaboration

By HeatherPosted on 16th July 202020th July 2020Posted in Opportunity, ScotlandIS News

For some reason KTPs are a well-kept secret or perhaps just mis-understood? Either way they are certainly an underutilised source of innovation funding in Scotland. Innovation can be somewhat risky for companies as it is a financial or resource investment

Government unveils £200 million package to help innovative businesses bounce back

By updatesPosted on 7th July 20207th July 2020Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

The Sustainable Innovation Fund will help companies recovering from the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) keep their cutting-edge projects and ideas alive. Almost £200 million boost to help businesses across the UK drive forward cutting-edge new tech and recover from the

The Sustainable Innovation Fund: SBRI phase 1

By updatesPosted on 7th July 20207th July 2020Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

Innovate UK will fund organisations to develop and demonstrate new products or services. Your solution must help businesses and/or the public sector in the UK recover from the coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic in a sustainable manner, demonstrating the impact and

Path to Post-COVID Recovery Challenge

By updatesPosted on 23rd June 202023rd June 2020Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to invite proposals to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of space based applications that can pave the way to post-COVID recovery in vertical sectors. ESA anticipates offering 100% funded contracts of up to

Plastic-Less Society Challenge

By updatesPosted on 23rd June 202023rd June 2020Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to seek innovative solutions to prevent and solve the issues of marine litter and especially plastics in water bodies. ESA anticipates offering 100% funded contracts of up to €200,000 to investigate the technical and economic

Behavioural Analytics – Phase 2 Competition

By updatesPosted on 23rd June 202023rd June 2020Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is seeking proposals to develop innovative solutions that provide context-specific insights, derived from data, into the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of individual, group and population behaviour. The aim is that these enable making reliable predictions