On 25th February 2021, KTN held an online webinar to allow attendees to out about the grant funding opportunities for the foundation industries and how these opportunities can be accessed. In addition to Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) competitions, there were a host of other opportunities which were discussed, including international funding.

1. www.ktn-uk.org
Ajay Kapadia
Knowledge Transfer Manager - Composites
Innovation Support for the
Foundation Industries
25th February 2021

2. • 10:30 – Welcome and Introduction | Ajay Kapadia, KTN
• 10:35 – Overview of Research and Development Grant funding opportunities | Stuart
Russon, Innovate UK
• 10:45 – Introduction to Innovate UK EDGE and how they can support your business |
John Hesketh, Innovate UK EDGE
• 11:05 – Introduction to Horizon Europe: Abishek Ramesh & Helen Fairclough | Horizon
Europe National Contact Points, Innovate UK
• 11:30 – Opportunities for funding from IETF | Jenni McDonnell, KTN
• 11:45 – Panel Q&A
• 12:00 – Closing remarks and End
• 14:00 – 16:00 Networking via Meeting Mojo
https://innovation-support-for-the-foundation-industries.meeting-mojo.com/
Agenda

3. Introducing our Speakers
Stuart Russon
Impact and Performance
Manager
Transforming Foundation
Industries
Innovate UK
John Hesketh
Innovation and Growth
Services Lead
Innovate UK Edge
S.E.Region
Abishek Ramesh
UK NCP for Horizon Europe
& Global Innovation Lead
Advanced Manufacturing
& Industries
Innovate UK
Helen Fairclough
EU Energy Focus
UK NCP for
Horizon 2020 Energy
Innovate UK

4. Introducing our Speakers
Jenni McDonnell
Knowledge Transfer Manager
Thermal energy systems
KTN

5. KTN Team
Ajay Kapadia
KTM Composites
Materials Team
Chris Gill
Marketing and Comms
Manager
Shelley Astrop
Events Manager
Robert Quarshie
Head of Materials

6. Overview of Research
and Development Grant
funding opportunities
Stuart Russon
Impact and Performance Manager
Transforming Foundation Industries
Innovate UK

7. Innovation Support for the Foundation
Industries
Funding Landscape

8. The Foundation Industries
Include ceramic, glass, cement, metals, paper, and chemicals.
Worth £45bn to the UK and employ 500,000 people, mostly
outside the south east in areas of deprivation.
Challenges:
• by far the largest industrial polluter, generating 10% of all
UK’s CO2 emissions
• capital intensive making it difficult change and compete with
new plant from the developing world.

9. TFI Funding Landscape
TFI website
http://foundationindustries.org/

10. TFI Funding Landscape
Opportunities additional to those
delivered by TFI ISCF
http://foundationindustries.org/

11. TFI Funding Landscape
Register on the Innovation
Funding Service
https://apply-for-innovation-
funding.service.gov.uk/competiti
on/search

12. TFI Funding Landscape
Knowledge Transfer
Partnerships
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/
knowledge-transfer-
partnerships

13. TFI Funding Landscape
Local Authorities

14. Stuart Russon
Impact and Performance Manager TFI
stuart.russon@innovateuk.ukri.org

15. Introduction to Innovate
UK EDGE and how they
can support your
business
John Hesketh
Innovation and Growth Services Lead
Innovate UK Edge S.E.Region

17. What is Innovate UK EDGE?

18. • Exploit innovation
• Source funding
• Enter new markets
We enable ambitious
and innovative SMEs to
scale and grow, by
helping them

19. Exploit innovation

20. • Developing a strong innovation culture
• Adapting a business model
• Setting project success criteria, applying
project management principles
• Establishing manufacturing readiness
• Ensuring market readiness
• validating technology
• identifying value propositions
• understanding market potential, and
• building marketing strategies
Innovation
management

21. • Catapults
• Laboratories e.g. NPL
• BSI
• KTN
• The investor community
• Intellectual Property Office
• Universities
Connections to the
innovation eco-system

22. • Identifying different types of IP and
protection: Patents, trademarks, design
rights, copyright, NDAs, etc.
• Awareness of patent, trademark and
design registration search tools
• Advice on business processes to capture
and review IP
• UK and international protection strategies
• Where to get appropriate professional
advice
Exploiting intellectual
property

23. • We also have an enhanced IP Audit
service provided in partnership with the
UK Government’s Intellectual Property
Office
• The business contributes just 17% of the
cost
• Participants receive a detailed report that
sets out clear recommendations to
leverage value from their IP and a plan to
integrate their IP assets into a wider
business strategy
IP Audit Service

24. Source funding

25. • We help innovative SMEs make sense of
the many funding and finance
opportunities available
• We advise on the best options from
regional, national and international
sources, both public and private, to
support your innovation and expansion
plans
• We assist you to develop your finance and
funding strategy and review your
applications as a critical friend.
Source funding and
finance

26. • Pitchfest supports innovative and ambitious
UK SMEs to get investment ready and
develop their investor pitch in order to raise
finance
• Two-days of comprehensive pitch training
• Access to leading pitch & investment experts
• Bespoke support from a growth specialist
• An opportunity to build a clear, compelling and
credible investment proposition
• Introductions to active investor networks in
your region and across the UK
• Supercharging your elevator pitch
• Constructive no-risk feedback from a panel of
real investors
Pitchfest

27. Enter new markets

28. • Helps businesses across more than 65
countries worldwide to innovate and grow on an
international scale.
• Access expertise, contacts and events to
connect companies with international partners
• Advice for international growth – expert advice
for growth and expansion into international
markets
• Access expert groups covering key economic
sectors including healthcare, agri-food,
intelligent energy and biotechnology
Enterprise Europe
Network

29. • Search a global partnership database for
relevant opportunities
• Search for business and academic
partners to manufacture, distribute,
co-develop and supply your products,
ideas and services.
• View an opportunity and express your
interest
• Our specialist team collate responses and
introduce matched partners to each other
Global partnering
opportunities

30. • Acceleration programme for innovative
SMEs to explore the potential of overseas
markets
• Four stage programme:
• Prepare - two-day preparation
workshop
• Participate – market visit
• Pursue – develop strategic plan
• Exploit – consider the potential
funding, connections, skills and
expertise required to enable growth
Global Incubator
Programme

31. • Up to 15 high-growth innovative
businesses are supported during each
GBIP
• Three stages
• Prepare – briefings on specific
overseas market and culture
• Visit – trip including pre-arranged
meetings and company visit
• Exploit – work with growth specialist to
help develop and implement an action
plan
Global Business
Innovation Programme

32. Ready to scale-up?

33. • Bespoke, specialist-led support helps to
address the key scaleup challenges, but
are not limited to
• access to markets of the future
• access to connections and resources
• attracting growth capital.
• Available to those companies achieving, or
with the potential for, 50% compound
annual growth rates (CAGR) and over
Innovate UK Scaleup
Programme

34. John Hesketh
Innovation and Growth Services Lead
Innovate UK Edge S.E.Region
Contact email: J.B.Hesketh@gre.ac.uk
Links
https://www.innovateukedge.ukri.org/
https://www.innovateukedge.ukri.org/FAQs
https://www.innovateukedge.ukri.org/Source-funding-finance-to-grow-and-scale/Pitchfest-
investment-readiness-offering-UK-SMEs
https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/810/overview#summary

35. @InnovateUK Innovate UK
Innovate UK

36. Introduction to Horizon
Europe
Abishek Ramesh
UK NCP for Horizon Europe
& Global Innovation Lead
Advanced Manufacturing
& Industries
Innovate UK
Helen Fairclough
EU Energy Focus
UK NCP for Horizon 2020 Energy
Innovate UK

37. Horizon Europe – An Intro
Presented by
Abishek Ramesh & Helen Fairclough
UK National Contact Points – Horizon Europe

38. • EU framework programme
• UK Association
• Horizon Europe overview
• Funding Opportunities for UK Foundation Industries
• Cluster 4 - Industries
• Cluster 5 - Energy
• Why participate?
• Support available
• Next Steps
• Q&A
Agenda

39. • Are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to
support and foster research and innovation.
• Began in 1984 and each last for 7 years (aligned to the rhythm of the EU’s Multiannual
Financial Framework – MFF)
• Horizon 2020 was the previous Framework Programme (FP). It began in 2014 and had
its last call for proposals in 2020. Total budget for Horizon 2020 was ~ €80Bn.
• Horizon Europe is the 9th FP and successor to Horizon 2020, will run from 2021 to 2027
• €95.5Bn total budget - Work Programme due to be published in April 2021 (TBC)
European Framework Programmes
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The UK has agreed to Associate to Horizon Europe

40. What does UK association mean?
• UK entities will have equivalent participation rights to those from Member States – can lead and
influence key collaborative projects
• Continued access to collaborative R&I funding, infrastructure and markets via the Horizon Europe
• Able to access funding from all parts of the Programme, including ERC, MSCA, Partnerships (e.g.,
Processes4Planet, Clean Steel etc) and the majority of EIC (except EIC Accelerator equity fund)
• Work programme level exclusions only in exceptional and justifiable cases (e.g., some Defence & Security)
• Participation and influence on programme governance structures (e.g., programme committees)
• UK experts can continue to take part in project evaluations
The UK has agreed to Associate to Horizon Europe
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41. What happens next?
EU to ratify the Horizon Europe Regulation
• Likely to take place Mar 2021
• UK played a role in shaping the regulation whilst a Member State
UK and EU adopt Protocols (via Specialised Committee)
• This step cannot be completed until the Regulation has been agreed
UK formally associated to the Programme
• Once Protocol has been agreed, the UK will be formally associated to the
Programme
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42. Horizon Europe Structure €53.8bn
€24.9bn €13.4bn
• €95.5bn funding agreed for 2021-2027
• NB budget figures exclude UK and other Associate Country contributions
• Others likely to associate incl. Switzerland, Norway & Israel
• Canada, Japan, Australia etc. status TBC 42
Note: Info based on DRAFT WP

43. General info
• Excellence
• Impact
• Quality and Efficiency of implementation
Award Criteria
• RIA – Research and Innovation Actions – up to 100% funding rate
• IA – Innovation Actions – up to 70% funding rate (except non-profit where 100% applies)
• CSA – Coordination and Support Actions – up to 100% funding rate
Main Types of
Actions
• Eligibility: Must be a consortium of minimum 3 independent legal entities, each established in a different EU
Member State (MS) or Associated countries, with at least 1 of them established in a MS.
• UK will be an Associated Country in Horizon Europe programme and UK entities are eligible for funding.
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Note: Info based on DRAFT WP

44. Cluster 4 - Industries
Presented by
Abishek Ramesh
NCP & Global Innovation Lead – Industries
Email: ncp-advman@innovateuk.ukri.org
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45. Cluster 4 - Digital, Industry and Space
6 destinations:
1) Circular Industries &
Digital Production
2) Raw Materials,
Resource Efficiency &
Resilient Industries
3) Data, Adv.
Computing &
Connectivity
4) AI, Robotics &
Emerging
Technologies
5) Space, Satellites &
Earth Observation
6) AR/VR, Ethics &
Other cross-cutting
€15.54bn funding (2021-27)
>190 call topics in 2021-22
€1.56bn – 2021/22 €0.31bn – 2021/22
€1.51bn – 2021/22
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Note: Info based on DRAFT WP

46. Key innovation themes in Cluster 4 (Industries)
Destination 1:
Destination 2:
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Note: Info based on DRAFT WP
Circular economy
Industrial
symbiosis Feedstocks
Waste
Valorisation (incl.
plastics & water)
Energy
Optimisation
Production
Optimisation Clean Steel
Electrification Renewables
Construction &
Buildings
Reconfigurable
production
processes
Heating
Digital & AI for
production
efficiency
Sustainable
manufacturing
Raw materials
Materials
processing
Resource
Efficiency
Sustainability by
Design Catalysis
Fuels &
Chemicals
Advanced
materials
(polymers, metals
& composites)
Biomaterials Nano-coatings
Multi-functional
materials
Energy storage
(incl. hydrogen)
CO2 & GHG
reduction

47. 2021 funding opportunities - Destination 1
47
Topic Ref Number Topic Title
Type of
Action
Budgets
(EUR
million)
Expected EU
contribution per
Project (EUR
million)
Number of
projects
expected to
be funded
TRL
Start
TRL
End
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-07
Artificial Intelligence for sustainable, agile manufacturing (IA)
IA 19 3 to 8
3 4 7
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-08
Data-driven Distributed Industrial Environments (IA)
IA 22.5 4 to 8
3 5 8
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11
Automated tools for the valorisation of construction waste (RIA)
RIA 21 6 to 10
3 4 6
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-14
Deploying industrial-urban symbiosis demonstrators for the utilisation of
energy, water, industrial waste and by-products at regional scale (RIA)
RIA 27.5 8 to 12
3 4 6
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-17
Plastic waste as a circular carbon feedstock for industry (IA)
IA 38 15 to 25
3 5 7
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-18
Carbon Direct Avoidance in steel and other metals: Electricity and
hydrogen-based metallurgy (IA) IA 28 6 to 8
3 6 8
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-19
Improvement of the yield of the iron and steel making (IA)
IA 14 4 to 5
4 6 8
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-20
Reducing environmental footprint, improving circularity in extractive and
processing value chains (IA)
IA 34 12
3 5 7
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-21
Design and optimisation of energy flexible industrial processes (IA)
IA 40 15 to 25
3 5 7
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-22
Adjustment of Steel process production to prepare for the transition
towards climate neutrality (IA)
IA 14 4 to 5
3 6 8
Calls Open: 15 Apr 2021 Application Deadline: 15 July 2021
€258m
Note: Info based on DRAFT WP

48. 2021 funding opportunities - Destination 2
48
Topic Ref Number Topic Title
Type of
Action
Budgets
(EUR
million)
Expected EU
contribution per
Project (EUR
million)
Number of
projects
expected to
be funded
TRL
Start
TRL
End
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
RESILIENCE-01-03
Identifying future availability of secondary raw materials (RIA)
RIA 13.5 4.5 3 - 3-5
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
RESILIENCE-01-04
Developing climate-neutral and circular raw materials (IA)
IA 36 12 3 - 6-8
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
RESILIENCE-01-07
Building innovative value chains from raw materials to sustainable
products (IA) IA 36 12 3 - 6-8
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
RESILIENCE-01-10
Paving the way to an increased share of recycled plastics in added
value products (RIA) RIA 23 5 to 7 3 3 6
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
RESILIENCE-01-14
Development of more energy efficient electrically heated catalytic
reactors (IA) IA 33 7 to 10 8 5 7
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
RESILIENCE-01-16
Creation of an innovation community for solar fuels and chemicals
(CSA) CSA 4 3 to 4 1 - -
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
RESILIENCE-01-26
Sustainable Industry Commons (RIA)
RIA 6 2 to 4 2 4
6 or
more
HORIZON-CL4-2021-
RESILIENCE-01-29
'Innovate to transform' support for SME's sustainability transition (IA)
CSA 10 5 2 - -
Calls Open: 15 Apr 2021 Application Deadline: 29 September 2021
€161.5m
Note: Info based on DRAFT WP

49. 49
Topic Ref Number Topic Title
Type of
Action
Budgets
(EUR
million)
Expected EU
contribution per
Project (EUR
million)
Number of
projects
expected to
be funded
TRL
Start
TRL
End
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-01
Rapid reconfigurable production process chains (IA) IA 27.5 8 to 12 3 5 7
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-06
ICT Innovation for Manufacturing Sustainability in SMEs (I4MS2) (IA) IA 21 4 to 8 3 5 8
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-07
Digital tools to support the engineering of a Circular Economy (RIA) RIA 28 3 to 6 3 4 7
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11
Valorisation of CO/CO2 streams into added-value products of market
interest (IA)
IA 40 15 to 25 3 5 7
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-13
Raw material preparation for clean steel production (IA) IA 14 4 to 5 3 6 8
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-14
Technologies for a more efficient utilisation and management of industrial
waste waters (RIA)
RIA 28 8 to 12 3 4 6
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-15
New electrochemical conversion routes for the production of chemicals
and materials in process industries (RIA)
RIA 10 3 3 3-4 5-6
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
TWIN-TRANSITION-01-16
Modular and hybrid heating technologies in steel production (IA) IA 42 15 to 25 3 5 7
2022 funding opportunities - Destination 1
Calls Open: 12 Oct 2021 Application Deadline: 12 Jan 2022
€210.5m
Note: Info based on DRAFT WP

50. 50
Topic Ref Number Topic Title
Type of
Action
Budgets
(EUR
million)
Expected EU
contribution per
Project (EUR
million)
Number of
projects
expected to
be funded
TRL
Start
TRL
End
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
RESILIENCE-01-01
Circular and low emission value chains through digitalisation (RIA)
RIA 24 6 to 8 4 - ?
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
RESILIENCE-01-04
Developing digital platforms for the small-scale extractive industry (RIA)
IA 15 5 3 - 6-8
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
RESILIENCE-01-05
Technological solutions for tracking raw material flows in complex supply
chains (RIA) RIA 15.4 4.5 3 - 3-5
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
RESILIENCE-01-06
Sustainable and innovative mine of the future (IA)
IA 36 12 3 - 6-8
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
RESILIENCE-01-07
Innovative solutions for efficient use and enhanced recovery of mineral
and metal by-products from processing of raw materials (IA) IA 36 12 3 - 6-8
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
RESILIENCE-01-14
Membranes for gas separations - membrane distillation (IA)
IA 21 6 to 8 6 4 7
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
RESILIENCE-01-16
Building and renovating by exploiting advanced materials for energy and
resources efficient management (IA) IA 21 5 to 7 3 5 7
HORIZON-CL4-2022-
RESILIENCE-01-20
Climate Neutral and Circular Innovative Materials Technologies Open
Innovation Test Beds (IA) IA 34 10 to 12 3 5 7
2022 funding opportunities - Destination 2
Calls Open: 15 Oct 2021 Application Deadline: 05 April 2022
€202.4m
Note: Info based on DRAFT WP

51. Cluster 4 Summary
§ At least 34 funding call topics between 15th Apr 2021 to 05th Apr 2022
§ Approx. €832.4m worth funding opportunity relevant to UK Foundation industries
§ UK entities are eligible to apply for Horizon Europe funding
§ Refer to Work Programme document (2021-22) for full details of funding calls
§ Be proactive - Start shaping your project ideas and seek out consortium partners
§ Contact UK NCP for more details & support: ncp-advman@innovateuk.ukri.org
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52. Cluster 5 - Energy
Presented by
Helen Fairclough
NCP – Energy
Email: mail@euenergyfocus.co.uk
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53. Cluster 5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
Six destinations:
1. Climate
sciences and
responses
2. Cross-
sectorial
solutions for the
climate
transition
3. Sustainable,
secure and
competitive
energy supply
4. Efficient,
sustainable and
inclusive energy
use
5. Clean and
competitive
solutions for all
transport
modes
6. Safe, resilient
transport and
smart mobility
services for
passengers and
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54. Energy in Horizon Europe
Destination 3 - Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
• Fostering the European global leadership in affordable, secure and
sustainable renewable energy technologies
• Energy systems, grids and storage
• Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)
Destination 4 - Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
• Highly energy-efficient and climate neutral EU building stock
• Industrial facilities in the energy transition
DRAFT
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55. Destination 3 – 2021 Call for Proposal
Launch: 15 April 2021 Deadline: 26 August 2021 Budget: €279M
Examples of Call topics:
• Renewables - 3 topics (€35M) including Demonstration of wave energy
devices to increase experience in real sea condition
• Grids – 10 topics (€147M) including Integrating and combining energy
systems to a cost-optimised and flexible energy system of systems
• CCUS – 2 topics (€32M) including Integration of CCUS in hubs and clusters
• Cross-cutting – 3 topics (€65M) including Clean Energy Transition*
*ERA-NET Cofund equivalent
DRAFT
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56. Destination 3 - Carbon capture, utilisation and storage
Topic
reference
number
Topic title Funding
action
Indicative
project
size (€M)
Indicative
budget
(€M)
TRL by
project
end
Deadline
CL5-2021-
D3-01-14
Integration of CCUS in hubs and clusters, including
knowledge sharing activities
CSA 2 2 N/A 26 August
2021
CL5-2021-
D3-01-15
Cost reduction of CO2 capture (new or improved
technologies)
RIA 10-15 30 6 26 August
2021
CL5-2022-
D3-01-15
Decarbonising industry with CCUS IA 29 58 7-8 23 Feb
2022
DRAFT
Key: RIA – Research & Innovation Action, IA – Innovation Action,
CSA – Coordination and Support Action, TRL – Technology Readiness Level
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57. Destination 4 – 2021 Call for Proposal
Launch: 15 April 2021 Deadline: 19 October 2021 Budget: €66M
Examples of Call topics:
• Buildings - 3 topics (€36M) including Advanced data-driven
monitoring of building stock energy performance
• Industry – 2 topics (€30M) including Industrial excess (waste) Heat-to-
Power conversion based on organic Rankine cycles
DRAFT
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58. Destination 4 - Industrial facilities in the energy transition
Topic
reference
number
Topic title Funding
action
Indicative
project
size (€M)
Indicativ
e budget
(€M)
TRL by
project
end
Deadline
CL5-2021-
D4-01-04
Full-scale demonstration of heat upgrade
technologies with supply temperature in the range
90 - 160°C
IA 8 16 7-8 19
October
2021
CL5-2021-
D4-01-05
Industrial excess (waste) Heat-to-Power conversion
based on organic Rankine cycles
IA 10-14 14 6-7 19
October
2021
CL5-2022-
D4-01-04
Development and pilot demonstration of heat
upgrade technologies with supply temperature in the
range 150-250°C
RIA 3-5 10 5 6 Sep
2022
CL5-2022-
D4-01-05
Development of high temperature thermal storage
for industrial applications
RIA 3-4 8 4-5 6 Sep
2022
DRAFT
Key: RIA – Research & Innovation Action, IA – Innovation Action,
CSA – Coordination and Support Action, TRL – Technology Readiness Level
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59. Funded project example
Horizon 2020 project – Developing a standard and modularised solution for flexible and adaptive
integration of heat recovery and thermal storage (Smartrec) – Innovation Action
Development of a standard, modular solution that valorises medium to high grade waste heat, adaptable to
different temperatures and industries. A pilot Smartrec system will be constructed and deployed in a
secondary aluminium recycler and/or ceramic processor valorising high grade heat for continuous energy
intensive salt-cake recycling.
Led by Altek (UK), UK partners – TWI, Econtherm, Technovative
• Partners from France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Norway
• Total project budget of €4.6m with €3.7m funding from H2020 (€2.3m to UK)
• Project started in September 2016 and will finish in February 2021
Project summary
Waste heat valorisation projects summary
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60. Why participate in Horizon Europe?
• Funding source in addition to Innovate UK schemes (e.g., ISCF TFI)
• High funding rate: 70-100% of eligible costs
• Increased visibility at EU & Global level
• Build new domestic and international partners/customers (leading to growth & revenue)
• First step towards internationalisation & export markets
• Solving global grand challenges through collaborative R&D
• Access to: cutting edge technologies, infrastructure & talent
• Influence standards, regulations and research policies
• Creating UK jobs, growth and stronger supply chains
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61. National Contact Points
Informing, awareness raising – on Horizon Europe and other EU
programmes
Assisting, advising and training – to improve the quality of
Horizon Europe proposals
Signposting and cooperation – direct to relevant support and
work with each other to support consortium development
UK NCP network - support for each area of Horizon Europe
International NCP network – support in Member States, Associated
Countries and Third Countries
NCP services vary in each country, but typically include:
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62. Other support services
Innovate UK EDGE has regional offices and access to a large database of
companies seeking collaboration
Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) has sector specialists as well as EU
specialists
Support in the Devolved Administrations
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63. Next steps
I’m interested in exploring the opportunity, what should I do?
• Contact the relevant NCP to discuss your proposal idea and discuss its
relevance to the current Calls for Proposals
• Prepare a proposal summary
• Find out what has been funded already and which organisations are involved
• Approach potential partners
• Attend relevant webinars and info days
• KTN’s Intro to Horizon Europe webinar
• 11th March 2021 (10am to 12pm GMT)
• More Cluster specific webinars to follow
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64. Contact details
Abishek Ramesh
07894 800 812
NCP-AdvMan@innovateuk.ukri.org
Helen Fairclough
0845 6000 430
mail@euenergyfocus.co.uk
www.euenergyfocus.co.uk
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65. @InnovateUK Innovate UK
Innovate UK

66. Opportunities for
funding from IETF
Jenni McDonnell
Knowledge Transfer Manager
Thermal energy systems
KTN

67. www.ktn-uk.org
Jenni McDonnell, KTN
Industrial Energy Transformation Fund
22 February 2021

68. Industrial Energy Transformation Fund Overview
The £289m Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) will support businesses with high
energy use to cut their bills and reduce carbon emissions. It will provide funding for capital
investment in energy efficiency and deep decarbonisation. This investment will be guided by
BEIS’s objectives to:
• Reduce energy costs and emissions for industry; and,
• Bring down costs and risks of deep decarbonisation technologies by demonstrating those
technologies.
The first window closed in October 2020, and thirty-nine applications from this competition,
totalling around £31 million, have been approved for funding subject to due diligence checks.

69. Phase 1 Spring window
The Spring window funding, worth £40 million, for England, Wales and Northern Ireland will fund:
• Feasibility and engineering studies for potential deployment projects that will deliver energy
efficiency or deep decarbonisation benefits if implemented, enabling decision-makers to make
informed investment choices
• Deployment of mature energy efficiency technologies that improve industrial process energy
efficiency and reduce energy demand.
Competitions opens on 8th March 2021
Competitions close on 14th July 2021 11.00am
This fund is aimed at businesses that use energy or produce direct emissions as a result of their
industrial processes. Sites must fall into the following categories of activity as defined by the SIC codes:
• manufacturing 10(000) through to 33(200)
• data centres 63(110)

70. Feasibility and Engineering Studies
This competition will help eligible companies build a pipeline of future deployment projects by
supporting feasibility and engineering studies to reduce the costs and risks of either industrial energy
efficiency or decarbonisation technologies.
Projects;
• can be collaborative or a single applicant
• must be led by a business that operates a manufacturing site or data centre in England, Wales or
Northern Ireland where the study is carried out
• the lead applicant must be the manufacturer or data centre operator at the site that is the focus,
and end-beneficiary of the study
• can be a collaboration between partners across businesses, RTOs, academics and public sector
organisations
Total study costs must be;
• at least £50,000 for engineering studies and complete within 24months (max grant £14m)
• at least £30,000 for feasibility studies and complete within 12 months (max grant £7m)

71. Deployment of Industrial Energy Efficiency
This competition will help eligible companies to deploy technologies which improve the energy efficiency of
the industrial process
Projects;
• can be collaborative or a single applicant
• must be led by a business that operates a manufacturing site or data centre in England, Wales or
Northern Ireland where the technology will be deployed
• the lead applicant must be the manufacturer or data centre operator at the site that is the focus, and end-
beneficiary of the project
• at the end of the project the technology must be installed and operating or be ready to operate.
The application will need to demonstrate the potential for kWh energy savings determined by measuring or
estimating energy consumption before and after implementation of the technology solution.
Grant applied for must be at least £100,000 and be completed by Dec 2024 (max grant £14m)

72. Applications
You can include multiple projects within your application but you must make sure:
• all elements are located at the same eligible site
• all individual elements are eligible
If you are submitting multiple projects within an application, we will assess your application as a
single submission.
If you want to apply to conduct projects across different sites, you will need to submit one
application for each site.
You will not be able to aggregate studies and deployment projects together, but rather will need to
submit separate applications to each relevant strand of the competition.

73. Examples of technologies in scope
Decarbonisation studies
• Fuel switching
• CHP with fuel switching
• On site carbon capture
Energy Efficiency studies and deployment
• Energy use, optimisation and recovery
• industrial process control
• upgrades to more efficient equipment
• more efficient heat exchange
• energy recovery from waste heat / energy recovery from waste pressure
• resource efficiency to reduce wastage and optimise use of raw materials
• Heating and cooling equipment
• Fuel switching

74. Examples of technologies and costs that will not be supported
• Repair and maintenance
• Plant closure projects
• New build and expansions, building improvements
• Transportation
• Production of low carbon fuels such as hydrogen, biogas, biofuel
• Energy supply e.g. purchasing, installing and maintaining renewable electricity generation, unless
from waste heat, waste pressure, waste process gas, or waste process liquid
• Connections to off site energy networks (e.g. to the gas grid)
• CO2 transport or long term storage, direct air capture of CO2 or development of test centres
• CHP without fuel switching

75. Feasibility and Engineering Studies - Decarbonisation
Fuel switching:
Applications for studies that involve fuel switching will be supported where the switch is to a less
carbon intensive fuel:
• They involve a switch from fossil fuel to biomass, waste or hydrogen
• They involve a switch from fossil fuel to biogas, but only where the site is off the gas grid
• They involve a switch from more carbon intensive fossil fuels than the gas grid, to the gas grid
• They involve a switch from any fuel to electricity
Fuel combustion proposals must be above 1MWth

76. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) fuel switching:
Applications for studies that explore CHP will only be supported where:
• the fuel switch follows the rules of the previous slide
• biogas CHP projects are off gas grid sites (biogas must be sourced from a dedicated supply that
could not otherwise be injected into the gas grid)
Feasibility and Engineering Studies - Decarbonisation

77. Feasibility and Engineering Studies - Decarbonisation
Biomass fuel switching:
Applications for studies that explore switching towards virgin biomass or residues will be supported
only where:
• The source of the biomass is considered sustainable and will not result in adverse environmental
impacts such as air pollution.
• The output from the biomass combustion is used in high temperature applications, in which the
operational temperature of the industrial process being heated is equal to, or more than 240
degrees C

78. Grant versus Match funding
Organisation Area A Area C Other areas
Large sized Co. 45% 35% 30%
Medium sized Co. 55% 45% 40%
Small sized Co. 65% 55% 50%
Non Businesses 100% 100% 100%
* Non businesses capped at 30% of the total project costs

79. Worked example: Area C site deployment
Organisation Grant Matched funds Total
Manufacturer £100,000 (35%) £185,700 (65%) £285,700
Medium sized Co. £150,000 (45%) £183,300 (55%) £333,300
Local Authority £50,000 (100%) £0 £50,000
Project total £300,000 £369,000 £669,000
* Grant minimum = £100,000

80. Support and information
Networking platform
https://ietf-spring.meeting-mojo.com/
Application support service
Jenni.mcdonnell@ktn-uk.org
Eligibility Checker
IETF@innovateuk.ukri.org
Briefing event registration
https://eur.cvent.me/avqB3

81. Support and information
Any Questions?

82. Panel Q&A

83. Closing remarks
and End
Ajay Kapadia
KTN
https://innovation-support-for-the-foundation-
industries.meeting-mojo.com/