Wales Innovation Network: Business case for bid development support for health, climate and people

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Total Funding: £5,000

Maximum available per bid:  Up to £1,000 

Bid Submission date (Annex A): 11 April 2025

Funding decisions: 30 April 2025  

Final report and expenditure complete (Annex B):  30 September 2025 

Wales Innovation Network (WIN) Bid development support:

• To support WIN’s activity across health, climate and people, bid development support can be provided to a Welsh university involved in developing a partnership to lead to a collaborative Welsh bid.
• Eligible applications should be led by a Welsh university and must involve at least another two other Welsh universities as partners. WIN also welcomes, where appropriate, the inclusion of university partners from outside of Wales, or external stakeholders such as business, industry, community groups, and public sector. Applications should be submitted using the pro-forma at Annex A by 11 April 2025.
• Funding is available to support activities which help expedite the development and submission of a joint bid. Funding can be used to buy-out staff time, to enable multiple universities and partners to convene in person, or any other activity which is required to support a partnership to develop a funding submission.
• Funding must be linked to activities supporting the work of health, climate and people.
• Applications will be reviewed by the WIN team, and this will consider the scale of the opportunity and the likelihood of future funding. WIN will also consider the feasibility of the plans put forward and their value for money.
• Applicants should ensure that all partners listed have the relevant approval from their institution to be part of the collaborative Welsh bid. Any additional speculative partners must be clearly indicated as such.
• Funding should be based on actual costs incurred and Universities Wales reserves the right to request access to supporting records for audit purposes.
• Any funding unspent by the submission date will be returned to WIN for reinvestment.
• Successful applicants must provide a monitoring report by completing and submitting Annex B by 30 September 2025 to innovation.network@uniswales.ac.uk 

Level of funding available:

• WIN has £5k committed and expects to fund five bid development grants. Up to £1,000.00 is available for support from WIN where this will enable universities to develop and submit a collaborative Welsh bid.

Guidance and application form (.docx)