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Feasibility funding for autonomous vehicle cyber security

Up to £2 million available for UK businesses to define a cyber-physical connected and autonomous vehicle test facility.

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The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) is partnering with Zenzic (formally Meridian Mobility) and Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation.

Together we will invest up to £2 million in a maximum of 5 projects to support the development of a connected and autonomous vehicle cyber-security testing facility.

Your feasibility proposal must fulfil 3 requirements:

  • find ways to measure cyber-physical resilience and maintain cyber security for vehicles, roadside infrastructure, supporting services and so on
  • provide input specifications for one or more new cyber test facilities
  • explore opportunities to develop new cyber related services

Eligibility

To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:

  • be a UK registered business, of any size
  • carry out its project work in the UK
  • claim grant funding
  • intend to exploit the results from or in the UK

Key information

  • you can receive grant funding of up to £400,000 for your total eligible project costs
  • any academic institutions or public sector organisations in your consortium can share up to 50% of the total eligible project costs
  • the competition opens for applications on 12 August 2019
  • the closing date is midday on 25 September 2019

Updates to this page

Published 12 August 2019