Manufacturing Scale-up Research and Innovation: Automotive and Aerospace

What the assessor looks for

• will deliver the aims of the opportunity in delivering scale up of new manufacturing technology and processes in the aerospace or automotive sectors.
• will align research capability with industrial need and enable the research community to deliver real world outcomes that address industry driven scale up challenges
• is of excellent quality and importance within the remit of the funding opportunity
• has the potential to advance current understanding, generates new knowledge, thinking or discovery and enable its application within or across the scope areas to deliver tangible benefit for UK industry
• is timely given current trends, context and needs
• impacts world-leading research, society, the economy or the environment
• enhances the UK’s research and innovation capabilities through local and or regional activity
• meets the aims of the opportunity as described in the ‘What we are looking for’ section
• will address a critical scale-up challenge facing the aerospace or automotive sector
• delivers outputs that will be taken up by Industry in order to overcome their scale up challenges
• is effective and appropriate to achieve your objectives
• is feasible, and comprehensively identifies any risks to delivery and how they will be managed

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What the assessor looks for

• will be effectively governed, including details about advisory structures
• will be effectively and inclusively managed, demonstrated by a clear management plan
• has clear appropriately resourced leadership team roles and responsibilities
• will manage and encourage partnerships with non-HEI organisations across government and, industry. and civil society
• has plans for monitoring your progress as well as self-evaluation throughout the lifetime of your award
• will put in place appropriate governance and administration to deliver the range of devolved funding opportunities
• has equality, diversity and inclusion embedded in plans for convening and engaging with their community and the allocation of the awarded funds

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What the assessor looks for

• the relevant experience (appropriate to career stage) to deliver the proposed work
• the right balance of skills and expertise to cover the proposed work
• the appropriate leadership and management skills to deliver the work and your approach to develop others
• contributed to developing a positive research environment and wider community
• contributions to the generation of new ideas, tools, methodologies, or knowledge
• ability to co-create and deliver with business to accelerate routes to successful manufacturing scale up targets
• the development of others and maintenance of effective working relationships
• contributions to the wider research and innovation community
• contributions to broader research or innovation users and audiences and towards wider societal benefit

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What the assessor looks for

• project staff
• significant travel for field work or collaboration (but not regular travel between collaborating organisations or to conferences)
• any equipment that will cost more than £25,000
• any consumables beyond typical requirements, or that are required in exceptional quantities
• all facilities and infrastructure costs
• all resources that have been costed as ‘Exceptions’
• are comprehensive, appropriate, and justified
• represent the optimal use of resources to achieve the intended outcomes
• maximise potential outcomes and impacts

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What the assessor looks for

• the relevant ethical and RRI considerations, including both the research or topic area itself and the design and delivery of the project
• the wider implications of the proposed work, and how you will maximise the positive societal, environmental, and economic benefits arising from the project, while minimising unintended negative impacts, such as research misuse or accidental harm
• how you will manage these considerations throughout the lifecycle of the project

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What the assessor looks for

• confirm the partner’s commitment to the project
• clearly explain the value, relevance, and possible benefits of the work to them
• describe any additional value that they bring to the project
• the page limit is three sides A4 per partner

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What the assessor looks for

• Include a plan for how the project will source additional leverage over the lifetime of the project and beyond
• You may find it helpful to include a timeline / workplan style diagram to illustrate the plan but this is not essential.
• Include descriptions of the processes for updating, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the plan through the project.
• The plan needs to be credible, specific and detailed. Having an acceptable plan in place is a requirement for funding.

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What the assessor looks for

• name of facility, copied and pasted from the facility information list (DOCX, 43KB)
• proposed usage or costs, or costs per unit where indicated on the facility information list
• confirmation you have their agreement where required

A filled dot only means your answer mentions that ground. It is not a judgement of how well.