Engineering Sector – Call for Proposals

This Engineering Sector Call Programme seeks in collaboration with engineering and related suppliers to the engineering sector to create HNCDI projects that apply these emerging digital technologies of artificial intelligence (AI), hybrid and multi-cloud, high performance computing (HPC), and quantum computing to advance the engineering sector’s digital capabilities, accelerate scientific and engineering discovery, and enable productivity growth and global competitiveness of the UK engineering sector.

We are seeking project proposals that will combine newly researched and developed digital technologies and existing digital technologies, improving speed, accuracy, and efficiency of solutions within logistics, engineering, manufacturing, and end-of-life.  

The Engineering Sector Call will focus on the following themes:

• Design, testing and manufacturing
• Scale and efficiency using modelling and simulation

After choosing one of the above themes, the applicable technology areas for consideration are but limited to: 

• AI Enhanced Modelling and Simulation
• Quantum Computing
• AI Enhanced Data Analytics
• Scaleable AI
• High Performance Computing and Exascale

Most projects are anticipated to fall in the 3 – 12 month timeframe, with maximum project duration being fixed at 12 months.

Expressions of Interest are now open

Key Dates 

15 November 2024 | Expressions of Interest deadline

1 March 2025 | Full project proposal submission deadline 

Funding Type

This call is funded by the Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation and supported by NAFEMS. The programme will fund all STFC and IBM staff, and compute resources. No direct funding is available to organisations outside the HNCDI partners.

Eligibility

To be eligible for participation to the submission and project delivery phases, your organisation must:

• Be a UK based business of any size registered at Companies House;
• Have an engineering or manufacturing base for the relevant product in the UK, or provide the relevant product or service from or in the UK;
• If “in kind contribution” is provided, carry out its project work in the UK;
• Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK;
• Start the project in the window between 1 April 2025 to 1 June 2025.
• End the project no later than 31 March 2026.

Apply now 

To apply, read the call information carefully and submit the completed form to hartreecentre@stfc.ac.uk ​ 

Download application form

Download call information pack

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