TSB Collaborative R&D Competition: Space for Growth
The TSB launched their new Space Funding programme yesterday. This is a collaborative funding call which needs to be led by an industrial partner.
The key themes are:
- Satellite Telecommunications
- Sensing
- Position Navigation & Timing
- Robotics & Exploration
- Access to space
Some specifics which could be of interest are:
Small satellite de-orbiting; health, environment and security sensing for in-situ space instrumentation; low-cost high resolution imaging; sensors to measure greenhouse gases; processing and analysing data from sensors; autonomous vehicles; robotic control; multi-agent autonomy; power technologies – low power, energy scavenging…
There are two levels of project
Fast track – will support £50-£100k for six to nine-months
Flagship projects – will fund up to £2m and last one to two years.
There will be a briefing day on 9
th
November, you must register by 7
th
December if you intend to submit an application and the deadline for submissions is 14
th
December.
Fast track projects will be dealt with in a single stage application process whereas Flagship projects will be subject to a two stage assessment process (first stage deadlines as above).
A PDF of the call can be found
here
Published on October 14, 2011
