皇冠体育app

皇冠体育app UK houses some of the world鈥檚 most prolific aerospace companies, including Boeing, Rolls-Royce and Airbus, and . But maintaining the UK aerospace industry鈥檚 global authority requires exploring emerging opportunities and markets.

To this end, organisations are invited to express an interest in a 拢150 million annual competition with their innovative ideas for aerospace design and manufacture.

皇冠体育app investment is part of the 拢3.9 billion , a partnership between government and industry that aims to maintain the UK鈥檚 world-leading position in civil aerospace. 皇冠体育app best projects will then be invited to apply for grant funding.

Eyes on the sky

Priority areas within the include whole aircraft design and integration, aerostructures, advanced systems and propulsion technologies. This competition provides funding for industrial research or capital investment projects.

Priority areas include:

• bolstering UK whole-aircraft design and system integration
• future-proofing advanced systems technologies in the UK 鈥� specifically, smart, connected and more electric aircrafts
• securing the UK鈥檚 world-leading position in large, complex aviation structures, particularly wings
• developing more efficient propulsion technologies, including large turbofans

Competition information

• the competition will open on 3 May 2019, and the deadline for expressions of interest is at midday on 22 May 2019
• UK-based business, research and technology groups and academic organisations can be the project lead, depending on the project type
• businesses can attract a maximum of 50% grant funding. Within that, individual businesses can attract up to 70% depending on funding requests from other partners
• organisations must sign up to the
• an online briefing event will be held on 10 May 2019 where organisations can find out more about the competition and applying