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Focal award: EPSRC and MHCLG Fire Engineering Skills Hub

🇬🇧 United Kingdom·Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)(Government)
Funding
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Deadline
2026.11.03
2d overdue

Overview

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Funding type: Grant · Funders: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

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Category
R&D
Industry
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Technology
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Target stage
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Project duration
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Estimated preparation
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Funding

Award size and how it is paid

Award range
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Currency
GBP
Total programme budget
£5.9M
Support type
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Co-funding
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Matching fund
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Disbursement
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Note
Total fund: £5,900,000

Eligibility

Can we actually apply?

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This opportunity is open to organisations with standard eligibility. Check if your organisation is eligible . UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) individual eligibility rules apply. For full details, visit UKRI’s eligibility page . Who is eligible to apply This funding opportunity is only open to higher education institutions. Organisations can only apply as the lead organisation on one submitted application. However, organisations can be a collaborating organisation or project partner on any number of applications. The lead organisation: • will play a strategic leadership role in shaping the vision, skills priorities, and delivery model • will lead submission of the application • will act as the training grant holder if you are successful • does not require doctoral research degree awarding powers, but an organisation with these powers must be present within your consortium • must provide the principal base (host) for a minimum of one doctoral student per year of intake for this funding opportunity Identification of the project lead should not be interpreted as recognition as the dominant partner, where the majority of funds are deployed or where the majority of doctoral studentships will be hosted. While only one individual can be included as project lead on the UKRI Funding Service, UKRI welcomes applications that reflect flexible and joint leadership models. EPSRC expects lead organisations to join with additional organisations, forming a consortium, in which other organisations could also host doctoral students or support delivery of the wider skills hub. You are encouraged to engage effectively with other organisations to ensure the: • development of the level 7 (or equivalent) training courses, including continuing professional development training for members of the consortium and potentially shared more widely • delivery of a truly interdisciplinary training environment and experience for doctoral students. Any organisations hosting students must be named as collaborating organisations on your application Project co-leads are welcome at either the lead organisation or collaborating organisations. Project leads and co-leads may include: • research technical professionals • innovation and commercialisation professionals • research software engineers • professional training and programme managers, where they play an integral role in programme delivery More information is available on roles in funding applications . Project partners Organisations may al

Company age
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Employees
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Revenue limits
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Consortium
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Location Requirements

Geography and legal-entity conditions

Primary country
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Also eligible
None
Foreign companies
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Local entity
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Location condition
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Required Documents

Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions

Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.

Application Process

How you apply

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Evaluation

Review process and criteria

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Timeline

Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution

Process steps were not captured.

Equity & Financial Terms

Equity, loans and contract conditions

Equity required
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Loan
Non-dilutive grant
Duplicate funding
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IP ownership
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Deliverable ownership
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Exclusivity
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Right of first refusal
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Audit & settlement
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Risk Intelligence

Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)

Overall: Not assessable (insufficient data)
Eligibility risk33

Chance of failing eligibility, location or legal-entity rules

Financial risk26

Co-funding, matching funds, reimbursement and loan exposure

Execution risk40

Paperwork load, timeline pressure, reporting and audit duties

Contract risk27

Exclusivity, right of first refusal, duplicate-funding limits

IP & idea exposure riskNeeds verification

How much technical detail you must hand over, and who owns it

Key risk factors
  • 18
    Deadline very close

    There is little time left to prepare the documents.

  • 10
    Required documents not collected· evidence needs verification

    The list of required documents was not collected.

  • 8
    Local-entity requirement not stated· evidence needs verification

    The announcement does not say whether a local entity is required.

  • 8
    Payment timing not stated· evidence needs verification

    Advance versus reimbursement makes a large difference to cash flow.

  • 7
    Overseas eligibility not stated· evidence needs verification

    Whether an overseas company may take part has to be confirmed.

  • 7
    Exclusivity not stated· evidence needs verification

    Any exclusivity clause has to be checked.

  • 6
    Award size not stated· evidence needs verification

    The announcement does not state how much is available.

  • 6
    Right of first refusal not stated· evidence needs verification

    Any right-of-first-refusal clause has to be checked.

15 item(s) need verification
  • · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
  • · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
  • · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a local entity is required is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an overseas company may apply is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a matching fund is required is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether payment is in advance or in arrears is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The level of settlement and audit obligation is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The award size is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The duplicate-support rule is not stated (needs verification).

Generated by local:rules-v1 · 9d ago

IP / Idea Protection

How much of your technology and idea you must disclose

Required documents unknown

The announcement does not say what has to be submitted, so the disclosure exposure cannot be judged. the scope of the material requested is not stated. The awarding body is Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). 8 fields could not be read and must be checked in the announcement and the grant agreement.

NDA
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IP ownership
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Deliverable ownership
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Data rights
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Disclosure depth
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File patent first?
Not applicable
Reuse of submissions
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Publicity obligation
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Exposure score
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Safe to disclose
  • · The problem your product solves, and the market definition
  • · Your value proposition and quantified results (improvement rates, throughput)
  • · Anything already public: granted patents, papers, press coverage
  • · Team composition, capabilities and a summary of past delivery
  • · Architecture-level diagrams at module granularity, without internal implementation
Keep to a minimum
  • · Core algorithms: formulae, hyper-parameters and pre-processing rules
  • · Raw training data and the details of your collection pipeline
  • · Full source code and build or deployment scripts
  • · Cost structure and unit-price formulae
  • · Named customers, contract terms and pricing
  • · How an unfiled invention is actually implemented
Recommended actions
  • MEDIUMRequest an NDA

    Ask in writing for a mutual NDA before submitting detailed technical material; if it is refused, keep what you submit at summary level.

4 evidence item(s) from the source
  • UNKNOWN

    No document list was collected, so the exposure of technical material cannot be judged.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    No NDA clause could be found.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    IP ownership terms could not be found.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    Ownership of the deliverables terms could not be found.

    Source link
Needs verification (8)
  • · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
  • · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
  • · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).

This assessment is derived from the stored announcement, document and contract fields. Anything the source does not state is marked "needs verification" — it never asserts that your idea will be taken. Generated by local:rules-v1 · 9d ago

AI Analysis

Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness

Preparation difficultyNeeds verification

From paperwork and review stages

Competition (estimate)45

Heuristic from award size and type

Attractiveness46

Amount, terms and IP combined

Overall riskNeeds verification

Weighted average of five dimensions

Pros
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Cons
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Cautions
  • Nothing flagged

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Snapshot history
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