ATI SME Programme

The Aerospace Technology Institute’s (ATI’s) strategy and focus for investment is delivering clean growth for the UK aerospace sector. Eligible projects will develop technologies that will deliver lower emissions, improve competitiveness, and/or grow the UK’s market share. The aim of this competition is to help SMEs to develop innovative technology in line with the ATI’s strategy, which can be exploited in the next five years. The primary application for technologies developed through this competition should be for the civil aerospace sector, but cross-sector application is valuable.

Your application must align with the UK aerospace technology strategy, Destination Zero, which is split into these areas:

• Zero-carbon emission aircraft technologies: Zero-carbon emission technologies are focused on propulsion and infrastructure development to enable zero-carbon tailpipe emissions. This encompasses battery, hydrogen, and fuel cell technologies, much of which are in early stages of development.
• Ultra-efficient aircraft technologies: Ultra-efficient technologies are focused on improving energy efficiency and hence impact CO2 emissions, NOx, and noise. Continued development of crucial high-value, sustainable, high-productivity manufacturing technologies will position the UK to be a first-choice location for the industry.
• Crosscutting enabling technologies: To enable both the zero-carbon and ultra-efficient opportunities, the UK must develop crosscutting enabling technologies and capabilities for whole aircraft design and analysis. These capabilities should extend to the aircraft lifecycle from design, through manufacture and assembly, operation, and end of life.

This is a two–stage process, outline, and full proposal:

Stage 1–Outline Stage

• Draft Outline Application (Optional)
• Outline Application
• Pitch Panel Notification

Stage 2–Full Application Stage

• Draft Full Stage Application
• Full Stage Application
• FSA Application