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Register by Noon 6th July 2016, Full proposal Noon 13th July

The aim of this competition is to stimulate and broaden innovation in manufacturing and materials. Innovate UK will fund a range of projects that address technical or commercial challenges in this scope. These aim to lead to increased business productivity, competitiveness and growth, especially for SMEs. A project may focus on technical feasibility, industrial research or experimental development. The type of innovation project will depend on the nature of the challenge facing your business.

Innovation is needed to increase UK manufacturing productivity, material efficiency and competitiveness into the long term. This may come from many avenues, for example:

• taking an innovative step in addressing the manufacturing readiness of growing sectors

• the development of more flexible or efficient processes

• greater customisation of products to fit diverging consumer needs

• diversification of product and service lines to serve new markets

• the development of novel services that open up new sources of revenue from manufacturing

To be in scope, a project must cover one of the following areas:

• innovation in a manufacturing system, technology, process or business model. For example, in process engineering, industrial biotechnology, mechanical conversion processes, coatings, textiles, supply chain management, new product introduction processes or remanufacture

• innovation in materials development, properties, integration or reuse. For example, for light-weighting, energy generation and storage (such as heat and electricity), electronics/sensors or for operation in demanding environments. For the purposes of this competition, materials include, but are not limited to, nano-materials, ceramics, metals and inter-metallics, polymers, composites, coatings, smart materials and joining of dissimilar materials
• Briefing events:
• London 23rd May
• Webinar 23rd May
• West Midlands 26th May
• Manchester 27th May

Please bring your tickets

The Diamond Light Source invites proposals for its rapid access to selected beamlines and electron microscope. This provides candidates with quick and urgent access to one of the following beamlines: electron microscope, MX beamlines, 106, 108, I11, I13-1, I13-2, B16, B18, I18, I19, B21, B22 and B23.

Applicants from any sector may apply; however, postdoctoral applicants, support scientists, postgraduate and undergraduate students may not act as principal investigators. Users are advised to contact the principal beamline scientist prior to application as some beamlines have restricted amount of rapid access available.

In steady state 80 per cent of beamtime is available to external users and 20 per cent beamline for development and in-house research. Industrial users may have up to 10 per cent of the beamtime allocated to external users, with only 30 per cent available per beamtime.