{"id":61548,"date":"2015-09-16T09:11:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T09:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=34cee6841c770e0879bf3d815a0ca944"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:11:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T09:11:18","slug":"news-story-uk-brazil-partnerships-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=61548","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK-Brazil partnerships: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK and Brazil\u2019s national service for industrial training <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.senaipr.org.br\/\">SENAI<\/a> are to invest up to \u00a33.4 million in innovative projects that solve critical challenges in the fields of energy, water and waste management and contribute to socio-economic growth and development in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will bring together companies, research organisations, academics and other collaborators from the UK and Brazil to develop new products and services that address these challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil was the world\u2019s seventh largest economy in GDP terms in 2014. Its size and potential present many opportunities for UK businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Projects must be aimed at the Brazilian market and could look at use of waste to generate power, power generation in remote areas, reductions in water consumption, waste-reduction and design of products that can be reused, recycled or re-manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>They must demonstrate commercial potential and have a positive impact on economic development and social welfare in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The UK investment has been made possible by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills-managed <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonfund.ac.uk\">Newton Fund<\/a>, which aims to build research collaborations between UK business and those in lower and middle-income partner countries.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition is open, and the deadline for applications is noon UK time 7 December 2015 <\/li>\n<li>projects must involve partners in both the UK and Brazil. They must be business-led on the UK side but can involve non-business partners<\/li>\n<li>we expect total UK project costs to be between \u00a3350,000 and \u00a3400,000 and for projects to last up to 20 months<\/li>\n<li>UK small or micro businesses could attract up to 70% of their eligible costs as grant, medium-sized businesses 60% and large businesses 50%<\/li>\n<li>the UK lead partner must apply to Innovate UK and the Brazilian lead partner to SENAI<\/li>\n<li>a briefing webinar for potential applicants will be held on 28 September 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/brazil%E2%80%93uk-collaborative-industrial-r-d-competition\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/newton-fund-building-science-and-innovation-capacity-in-developing-countries\/newton-fund-building-science-and-innovation-capacity-in-developing-countries\">Find out more about Newton Fund<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK businesses are invited to partner with Brazilian ones on projects that meet critical challenges in energy, water and waste management.<\/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\/61548"}],"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=61548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}