Midlands Drone and Advanced Air Mobility SMEs visit to The Connected Places Catapult to identify activities and funding opportunities.
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About this event
The Midlands hosts several world leading manufacturing research and innovation centres. The excellent facilities and staff offer SMEs in the region the opportunity to innovate and accelerate their growth. AerospaceUP would like to invite Midlands SMEs with an interest in drones and advanced air mobility to attend this session at the Connected Places Catapult to identify activities and funding opportunities to help you supercharge your business.
The Connected Places Catapult provides impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel. It connects businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets. It runs technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity, and eliminate carbon.
Linked to this activity, did you know that the Aerospace Unlocking Potential programme can help you engage with the region’s existing centres of excellence to understand how their collective world-leading expertise can help your manufacturing business?
The outline agenda is as follows:
09:00 Arrival and registration
09:20 Introduction to the CPC, SME case studies and how to engage with the CPC
10:15 Coffee
10:30 Presentation by Gary Cutts, Challenge Director – Future Flight
11:00 Facilitated networking session
12:00 Networking Lunch
13:00 Close
Space is limited to 10 places, so please book asap. Maximum two delegates per Midlands SME.
Aerospace UP
As a pan-Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) project, Aerospace UP is available to SMEs in 8 Midlands LEP areas:
1. Black Country
2. Coventry and Warwickshire
3. Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
4. Greater Birmingham and Solihull
5. Greater Lincolnshire
6. Leicester and Leicestershire
7. South East Midlands
8. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire
This activity is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020. This activity is classed as State Aid under De Minimis to participating businesses but is delivered completely free of charge.
Contact
If you have any questions about this event contact Clive Lewis, Technology Manager, 07919 103300.
Are you eligible for funding and expert support?
Why not see now if your organisation is eligible for funding and expert support from the University of Nottingham and the Midlands Aerospace Alliance under the Aerospace UP programme?
Click here to fill in the simple on-line eligibility check & enrolment form. In a nutshell, the criteria are:
- SME (business with fewer than 250 employees, turnover less than €50m)
- business address in Midlands.
For any questions about the form and eligibility contact Sarah Walker, ERDF Project Manager, Institute for Aerospace Technology, University of Nottingham - s.walker@nottingham.ac.uk.
