The aim of this competition is to build on the DESNZ Unlocking Resource Efficiency research by supporting organisations to deliver an impact validation report for a resource efficiency solution.

Themes

• For applications in this Resource Efficient Chemicals Impacts strand, your project can focus on one main theme:
  • industrial symbiosis in the chemicals sector
  • redesign of chemical formulations and products
  • defossilisation: captured CO2
  • defossilisation: sustainable biomass
  • defossilisation: chemical or mechanical plastic recycling, or other valorisation routes for waste streams

Funding Information

• Projects can range in size, from £50,000 up to total eligible costs of £300,000, inclusive of VAT. The project must last no longer than five months.

Eligible Projects

• a manufacturer within the chosen sector, for example, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 suppliers, raw material producers
• recovery businesses, for example, demolition companies, scrap processors, re-use and recycling facilities
• remanufacturing and repair businesses
• organisations that have the potential to become a customer
• specialists in impact validation, for example, in Life Cycle Analysis

Ineligible Projects

• are not original in scope and duplicate someone else’s work
• do not have an identified commercial route to market
• fail to integrate with existing technologies and systems
• are exclusively focused on producing sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) or other sustainable fuels, however, projects that investigate chemical processes that valorise SAF or other sustainable fuel by-products would be acceptable
• would directly duplicate other UK Government or EU funded initiatives you have already been funded to deliver
• are covered by existing commercial agreements to deliver the proposed solutions
• do not have an integration supporter involved (if you do not have operations in the relevant sector)
• create products with significant negative environmental impact
• exclusively address energy efficiency or energy efficiency related challenges

Eligibility Criteria

• To lead a project, you can:
  • be an organisation of any size, including those based in the EU, EEA or internationally
  • work alone or with the subcontracted skills and expertise of others from business, research organisations, research and technology organisations, or the third sector (charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups)
• Contracts will be awarded to a single legal entity only. The majority of the project work and key deliverables must be completed by the applicant and be carried out in the UK. Subcontractors can be used, but only for specialist skills.
• If your own organisation does not have operations in the relevant sector, they expect you to include an integration supporter in your project to help facilitate the impact validation of your solution.
• Demonstrations should be in a suitable industrial environment within the UK to enable the effective validation of the solution’s viability and impacts. They also welcome applications for solutions which have been demonstrated in a relevant sector in the UK within the last five years, but which have not yet reached commercial maturity and require further impact validation.

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