Skills and Manufacturing Scale-Up for the Semiconductors Industry
The Skills Education Manufacture Innovation for Semiconductors programme (SEMIconductors) will invest up to £18 million to assist the improvement and scale up of semiconductor manufacture within the UK.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, are inviting innovation projects to apply for an initial stage of two funds totalling up to £6.5 million for 1) Scale up Feasibility competition and 2) Skills competition, that are relevant to the Semiconductor industry.
Later in 2023 there will be a further up to £11.5 million competition following on ideas from the Scale-up Feasibility competition to initiate 12-month duration projects.
The competitions close on 29th March 2023.
About the competitions
SEMIconductors Scale up Feasibility Competition – this will invest up to £1.5 million in innovation projects to assist the improvement and scale up for semiconductor manufacture within the UK.
This aims to enable UK businesses in the semiconductor supply chain to develop their manufacturing capability through innovation and help continue to develop a resilient UK supply chain for this key suite of enabling technologies.
This feasibility competition aims to:
- Understand the existing facilities and capabilities
- Identify best practice
- Establish innovations and new manufacturing techniques
- Encourage new collaborations across industry and academia
Your proposal must identify or deliver a clear, game-changing intervention and address an identified industrial requirement or improvement. This must realistically and significantly meet and provide a long-term commitment to supporting the UK semiconductor industry.