Eligibility
To be eligible for Innovate Ukraine funding your project must:
- have total project costs of between £50,000 and £2 million.
- start on or after 1 April 2024.
- end by 31 March 2026.
- involve at least one partner with a legal entity in Ukraine.
- include a UK-registered administrative lead.
- involve a business of any size.
- involve at least one legally separate collaborator.
Your project can also involve any organisation from any country, with the exception of below.
Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian and Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian and Belarusian source.
Lead Organisations
There are two types of lead in this competition, an administrative lead, who will complete the application on the application portal and a technology lead who will lead the project work.
The eligible UK administrative lead will start the application form on the application portal and can invite partner organisations to support the competition of the form. They will act as the recipient of the award and will distribute funding to all other partners. This is known as a ‘hub and spoke’ model. The administrative lead will manage and be accountable for the finances of the project in accordance with the terms and conditions of the award.
The administrative lead must:
- be a UK-registered entity of any size and be capable of distributing funding to other collaborating partners.
- be eligible to claim grant funding through this competition, including grant for their administrative function.
The technology lead will lead on the development of the scope, work packages and any other technical work for the project. They will also lead the Intellectual Property (IP) creation for the project.
The technology lead:
- can be from any eligible country in the world.
- must be eligible to claim grant funding through this competition.
UK registered organisations can be both the administrative and technology lead if the criteria is met for both, as well as the additional project and collaborative requirements.
Project team
To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following:
- business of any size
- academic institution
- charity
- not-for-profit
- non-government organisation (NGO)
- research and technology organisation (RTO)
Each partner organisation must be invited into the application portal by the administrative lead to collaborate on a project. Once the invite is accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the application portal.
There needs to be at least two eligible grant claiming participants who are working on the project. This can include the administrative lead if they are doing technical work outside of the project administrative responsibilities.
To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.
Ukrainian governmental entities such as a local authorities, public service institutions, or government departments are able to participate in projects as advisory partners. As advisory partners they are unable to claim project costs.
Further Details
Further details can be accessed via the link on the "apply" page. Please register to gain access to this content.
