We are pleased to invite you to the Mexico-UK Newton Fund Collaborative Industrial R&D Partnering Event that will take place on the 10th July at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London.

A delegation from Mexico looking for UK partners in the areas of health, energy and agri-tech will attend the meeting. Please note that we have a limited number of places available for this event so please register your interst as soon as possible.

Mexico – UK Newton Fund Collaborative IR&D Programme

Innovate UK and the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT) are to invest up to £6 million in collaborative research and development projects to stimulate innovation across three sectors that underpin future Mexican socio-economic growth:

• Agri-industry
• Energy
• Health

This investment from the UK has been made possible through the UK Department of Business, Innovation and Skills-managed Newton Fund

The aim of the competition is to bring together companies (small-to-medium-sized companies and/or larger, well established businesses), research organisations, academics and other collaborators from Mexico and the UK for the joint R&D of innovative products, processes or services that meet critical challenges existing within these three sectors. The principal market a project must consider is Mexico.

Projects must be collaborative, involving both UK and Mexican participants. On the UK side, projects must be business-led, and can involve other non-business partners.

Innovate UK and CONACYT are running parallel application processes under this competition. The UK applicants (that is the UK side of each project collaboration) must apply through Innovate UK; the UK applicant’s Mexican partners must apply through CONACYT.

For UK participants, small or micro businesses could receive up to 70% of their eligible project costs, medium-sized businesses 60% and large businesses 50%.

We expect total UK project costs to be between £250,000 and £500,000 (although we will consider projects outside of this range) and projects to last between 12-24 months.

Please note there will be a limited amount of places available with one place per organisation only.

Click here for more information and to register