Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing: Expression of Interest Competition

Grants for UK businesses, research and technology organisations, catapult centres or public sector organisations working on projects in sustainable medicines manufacturing.

This competition is jointly operated by Innovate UK (IUK) and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The funding is part of the Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Programme.

The aim of the competition is to provide seed funding to establish a consortium and prepare a case for a later, full sustainable medicine manufacturing themed Grand Challenge award. A Grand Challenge is a large-scale collaborative research and development (CR&D) award, up to £10 million, involving at least three partners across the medicines manufacturing supply chain.

This competition aims to unlock potential by giving organisations the capacity to collaborate in developing new innovations, technologies, tools, data sets and approaches that can contribute to a sustainable medicines manufacturing sector.

Projects must address at least one of these three key pillars:

• Green chemistry
• Circularity
• Productivity and resource

This is phase 1 of a 2-phase competition:

• Phase 1: expressions of interest (EoI) phase (this competition)
• Phase 2: full Grand Challenge phase

At this EoI phase IUK will support projects to build consortia, complete background information and data gathering, and develop a proposal for the Grand Challenge phase.

Only successful applicants at this EoI phase will be invited to apply for the Grand Challenge phase.