If you are a UK business specialising in delivering products and/or services in any of the BYOND MOBILE priority industries (5G; Life Sciences and Digital Health; Agriculture and Biotech; or Manufacturing and Robotics; Future Mobility, Smart City) please complete this application to register your interest in being selected as part of the UK Pavilion for this exhibition.
Please register before the 31st of March using this link.
DIT will cover the costs to exhibit at Byond Mobile but all other costs associated with attending the show (e.g. flights, accommodation etc) will be the responsibility of the individual companies. If you have any questions, please direct these to laura.prieto@trade.gov.uk
The Department for International Trade is pleased to invite you to a webinar on 28th March 2022 from 9am – 10.35am on the recently signed Digital Economic Agreement, the world’s most innovative trade agreement to learn more about the content of the agreement, the plans for implementation and what opportunities it presents for UK – Singapore cooperation. The prospective speakers include:
- Minister Freer, Minister for Exports, Department for International Trade
- Danny Langley, Head of Telecoms and Digital Trade, Department for International Trade
- Xin Juan Chua, Director, Singapore Professional Services Program Office
For more information and to register please follow this link.
The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) has issued a number of notices to exporters in the last 2 weeks on sanctions against Russia and the impact on strategic export licences.
You are invited to attend a webinar on 23/03/2022 from 2pm – 3.30pm to hear more about the breadth of UK sanctions and financial sanctions:
Date: 24 March 2022
Time: 2pm to 3:30pm
Webinar: MS Teams
You will hear on these topics from the following government departments:
- scope of the sanctions – Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, Sanctions Task Force
- scope and application of trade sanctions – ECJU
- financial Sanctions: restrictions and general licences – HM Treasury Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI)
- Export Support Service Ukraine / Russia – Department for International Trade
- enforcement of trade sanctions – HM Revenue and Customs
There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the event. We also welcome your questions beforehand so we can address as many issues as possible within the time.
The Department for International Trade secures UK and global prosperity by promoting and financing international trade and investment, and championing free trade.
Join Matt Little for this workshop focusing on how to take your cyber business to the next level of internationalisation.
Wednesday 23rd March from 10am – 11.30am.
To register, email: matt.newman@trade.gov.uk
DASA are delighted to announce a new DASA Themed Competition on advanced radio frequency sensing, integrated effects and PNT. They are holding a briefing on Thursday 3rd March and pre-bookable one-to-one sessions on Tuesday 8th and Thursday 10th March 2022 (all online). The competition closes at midday on the 26th of April. They welcome proposals from as low as fundamental technical principles and concepts (TRL1 or TRL2) but at the end of the project, outputs should be between TRL3 and TRL6. Proposals must offer a view on exploitation beyond DASA project completion. They have £2.8m and expect to fund 15-20 proposals.
There are five Challenge areas:
- distributed RF sensing
- integrated sensing and effects
- integrated sensing and effects enablers
- PNT as a service
- Novel concepts and architectures for advanced RF sensing and effectors
More details are here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advanced-radio-frequency-sensing-integrated-effects-and-pnt/competition-document-advanced-radio-frequency-sensing-integrated-effects-and-pnt
Responding to the Transport Minister’s Workplace Parking Levy comments at the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee in the Scottish Parliament earlier today, Dr Liz Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce said:
“Scotland’s businesses have consistently opposed the introduction of the Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) in Scotland due to the additional financial burden it places on businesses and their employees.
“Businesses are still recovering from the financial impact of the pandemic, which has severely reduced trade and significantly increased costs over the past two years, hitting our town and city centres hard.
“By failing to impose a cap on charges, businesses across Scotland will now face a postcode lottery and some difficult decisions at a critical point in their recovery
“Many businesses are concerned that local authorities, whose budgets are already stretched, may now seek to implement this levy as a revenue stream rather than for purely environmental reasons.
“To support Scotland’s economic recovery, the Scottish Government should think again about the negative impact that unlimited workplace parking levy charges will have on Scotland’s businesses.”
DASA Scotland is delighted to announce a new DASA Themed Competition – Telexistence Phase 2 which closes on 06 April.
We are looking for innovators to develop a complete telexistence system. This will involve the integration of telepresence, robotic and haptic technologies onto a single platform. Solutions must enable the user to experience and interact with the remote environment as if they were physically there.
We will invite successful innovators to our laboratories to evaluate the capabilities of their systems against a series of tasks that are representative of a use case. Suppliers will choose one use case from the following:
- Specialist Nuclear Decommissioning Tasks
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)
- Defence and Security Medical applications
There is a Q&A dial-in session on 27 January and you can book one-to-one sessions on 01 and 09 February.
More information including signup links is here
If you have any questions, please get in touch.
DASA currently have two market explorations open:
Hybridisation of the Naval Fleet
They would like to identify available hybrid powertrain technologies, at Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) 5-9, for implementation into service by 2030. Further information here:
Evidential Testing of Drug Drivers
On behalf of the Home Office (HO), DASA is running a Market Exploration to identify technologies or concept of operations from across the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) spectrum that have the potential for point of contact testing to identify specified drugs, at defined levels, in suspected drug drivers. Further information is here:
There is an update on the Defence Innovation Loans (for late stage R&D and commercialisation activities, TRL 6 and up). These will now run continuously until 16 March 2022, which means no more cycles during this time. Innovators can now apply at any time and receive initial feedback within 7 weeks. As a reminder there is a total of £10 million is available for the Defence Innovation Loans this year. Innovators can apply for a loan between £250,000 and £1.6 million. More information can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/applying-for-defence-innovations-loans-is-now-even-easier
They have one themed competition open at present, which is Catch the Chem-Bio Scent! They are seeking proposals that can address challenges associated with screening for, the preservation of sample / evidence, and the attribution of hazardous chemical and biological (ChemBio) materials. More details are here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/catch-the-chembio-scent
More themed calls will be launched shortly.
Their Open Call for Innovation is now open for cycle 5 applications. They welcome applications into the defence and security rapid impact streams and across all of their Innovation Focus Areas. At present the emerging innovations (lower TRL) is not open for applications. Further information can be found at:
Made smarter innovation: sustainable smart factory
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million for digital innovation projects that will improve the resource efficiency and energy efficiency of manufacturing processes in factories.
Automotive Transformation Fund expression of interest: round 17
Registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital centric investment projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.
Innovate UK smart grants: Deadline extended until 12 January 2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for game-changing and commercially viable research and development (R&D) innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy.
NATEP helping SMEs innovate in aerospace
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million to carry out industry-led civil aerospace collaborative R&D projects.
Early ideas to improve the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6 million to improve the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics.