{"id":63859,"date":"2015-11-09T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T09:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=28dc50289e4e3a6c7bb954ed22c3494b"},"modified":"2015-11-09T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T09:30:12","slug":"news-story-uk-india-project-partnerships-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=63859","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK-India project partnerships: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK and the Government of India are to invest up to \u00a33.4 million in collaborative research and development projects that propose commercial solutions to critical challenges affecting socio-economic growth and development of India.<\/p>\n<p>UK and Indian businesses are invited to join forces to apply for a share of the money for projects in the fields of clean-tech energy, affordable healthcare and ICT.<\/p>\n<p>The UK investment has been made possible by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills-managed Newton Fund, which aims to build research collaborations between UK business and those in lower and middle-income partner countries.<\/p>\n<p>Projects must show commercial potential and must also demonstrate they will have a positive impact on both the economic development and social welfare of India.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition is open and the deadline for registration is noon UK time on 13 April 2016<\/li>\n<li>projects must be collaborative and involve a UK and an Indian lead partner<\/li>\n<li>lead partners in both countries must be a business but other partners can be businesses or research organisations<\/li>\n<li>there is \u00a32.5 million to fund UK participation. We expect total UK project costs to range from \u00a3350,000 to \u00a3450,000 and for projects to last up to 24 months<\/li>\n<li>UK small or micro businesses could attract up to 70% of their costs as grant, medium-sized businesses 60% and large businesses 50%<\/li>\n<li>the UK lead partner must submit an application on behalf of all applicants to Innovate UK, and the lead Indian partner must submit an identical application to Global Innovation &amp; Technology Alliance in India<\/li>\n<li>potential participants can look for partners through the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/india-gita-crd3-newtonfund.meeting-mojo.com\/\">Meeting Mojo<\/a> website<\/li>\n<li>a briefing webinar for UK applicants will be held on 17 November 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\/india%E2%80%93uk-collaborative-industrial-research-and-development-competition-clean-tech-affordable-healthcare-and-ict\">Find out more about this Newton UK-India competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK businesses are invited to partner with Indian ones on projects that meet challenges in clean-tech energy, affordable healthcare and ICT.<\/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\/63859"}],"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=63859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}