UK Research and Innovation’s Future Flight Challenge was formerly launched on 24th August by the Prime Minister marking the start of a new wave of innovation for UK based businesses working in all aspects of aviation. The Future Flight Challenge aims to revolutionise the way people, goods and services fly, positioning the UK as a world leader in aviation products and markets worth over $675bn to 2050. The Future Flight Challenge will develop an aviation system to accelerate the acceptance of these innovative air vehicles into service and therefore define how people, goods and services will be delivered in the years to come. This will increase UK manufacturing opportunities, increase mobility, improve connectivity and congestion and pave the way for a reduced carbon footprint for aviation globally. UK Government will invest up to £125m over the next four years to support these ambitions. The webcast recording is now available. Click here to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vclgDqH1zoU Find out more about the Aviation Interest Group at https://ktn-uk.co.uk/interests/aviation Join the Transport Interest Group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4148691/ or follow https://twitter.com/transportktn

1. The Programme
John Morlidge
Head of Aerospace, Innovate UK

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Future Flight Challenge – a phased programme of open competitions
Phase 1: Discovery Workshop – what is it?
Phase 1: Scope - Addressing the FFC challenge statements
Phase 1: workshop participant characteristics & criteria
Key Dates

3. FFC
2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24
Discover Develop Demonstrate
FFC
FFC
Future Flight will run a series of open competitions
Emerging
capabilities
Concept development,
grand challenge refinement
and consortium building
Full development of multiple,
competing aviation system
concepts
Realisation and demonstration
of aviation systems with real
use cases for 3 vehicles
classes
Fully integrated
demonstration of multiple
vehicle classes in live
airspace

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Phase 1: Discovery Workshop
What is it?
In this phase, we invite submissions from individuals, from existing consortia or
from organisations who believe they can play a role in addressing the Future
Flight problem statements to compete to participate in a 2 day immersive
workshop.
The discovery workshop is suited to individuals and organisations who:
• can step outside their own area of expertise or interest
• are driven
• enjoy creative activity
• can think innovatively

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Scope - FFC challenge statements
Your proposal submission must respond to one or more of the problem
statements suggested by the Future Flight Challenge:
Your submission must briefly describe your plans and ideas in relation to how
they would evolve within all 3 phases of the competition going forward, namely:
1. Discovery workshop.
2. Project development.
3. System demonstration.

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Workshop participant characteristics
You must:
• be willing to engage in collaborative activities
• have an open, engaging, flexible, imaginative and creative outlook
• be able to develop new and highly original innovative ideas
• be able to work constructively with people of diverse disciplines
• be available to attend the discovery workshop on 4 to 5 Feb 2020 in
Birmingham (venue to be announced in the next few weeks)

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Discovery workshop – Criteria
Your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size or a research
and technology organisation (RTO)
In phase 1, any eligible organisation can lead on up to 3 applications and can
collaborate in up to 5 applications in total.
Each invited application (whether single applicant or already part of a
consortium) can send up to 2 people to this event.
No grant funding is available in Phase 1.

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Discovery workshop – Criteria
You will not be paid for attending the discovery workshop or for the development
of your proposal.
Innovate UK will pay your residential and subsistence costs for the discovery
workshop, excluding alcohol.
You will pay your travel costs to and from the event.
Grant funding for projects will be available for future phases, when we will ask
you to apply with a detailed project proposal.
You can apply for future phases of this programme competition even if you do
not attend the discovery workshop.

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State aid
Any UK business claiming funding in future phases of this programme
competition must be eligible to receive state aid at the time we confirm you will
be awarded funding. If you are unsure please take legal advice.
For further information see our general guidance.

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Projects we will not fund
In future phases of Future Flight Challenge,
we will not fund projects that only focus on:
• aircraft technology development, such as ones with consortia made up
entirely of aerospace manufacturers
• are defence or space applications of autonomous and/or electric flight

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Key dates Discovery Phase of Future Flight
Competition opens 30 September 2019
Competition closes 13 November 2019 12:00pm
Applicants notified 16 December 2019
Workshop day 1 4 February 2020
Workshop day 2 5 February 2020