{"id":53669,"date":"2015-02-10T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T11:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4d0310e7af81b7e328ced5da373a3f87"},"modified":"2015-02-10T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T11:54:50","slug":"news-story-6-million-funding-to-turn-smart-materials-into-smart-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53669","title":{"rendered":"News story: \u00a36 million funding to turn smart materials into smart products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epsrc.ac.uk\/\">Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)<\/a> are looking to fund collaborative R&amp;D projects that bring together businesses from all stages of the supply chain, from manufacturers to end users.<\/p>\n<p>The funding is for industrial research projects to manufacture and exploit smart materials and develop smart products. <\/p>\n<p>Projects must be collaborative and business-led. Business partners will attract up to 50% public funding for their project costs (60% for SMEs). <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 16 March 2015 <\/li>\n<li>deadline for registration is midday on 29 April 2015<\/li>\n<li>there will be a briefing event for potential applicants in London on 25 March 2015 <\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to last between 1 and 3 years and to range in size from total costs of \u00a3500,000 to \u00a31 million   <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/creating-smart-products-from-smart-materials\">Find out more about this smart materials R&amp;D competition and apply<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1GJ2ckI\">See the latest information on smart materials workshops and webinars<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart materials that can clean themselves, change shape or respond to temperature changes could transform many everyday products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}