The Integrated Delivery Programme is a £200m investment programme, jointly funded by Government and business that will help to speed up the introduction of new low carbon vehicles onto Britain's roads. The Programme will co-ordinate the UK's low carbon vehicle activity from initial strategic research through collaborative research and development, leading to the production of demonstration vehicles.

To date, the Department for Transport, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Advantage West Midlands and One North East have agreed to invest in the programme, and we will seek further support from other regional development agencies and the devolved administrations.

The Integrated Delivery Programme will feature:

• A strategic programme of university-based research targeted towards future technologies for which there are good prospects of commercialisation in the long term
  
• An industry-led advisory panel that will help shape the technological direction and priorities for the programme.  It will be composed of representatives of leading elements of the UK automotive industry and low carbon vehicle technology developers, as well as relevant academic experts
• Flexible rolling opportunities for industry to seek support for high quality collaborative research and development proposals which take technology through to system or vehicle concept readiness
• Funding to support trialling and demonstration of particularly innovative lower carbon vehicle options.

The programme will initially run for 5 years and be managed by a Funder's Panel with an industry focussed Advisory Panel providing input into the areas of strategic research needed. There will be several separate competitions throughout the five years, with the subject of these competitions based on strategic research and development needs as advised by the Advisory Panel.

The competitions are being run under our usual collaborative R&D process.

Integrated Delivery Programme Competition 1
Ultra-Efficient Systems for the Market Advancement of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles now closed.

Integrated Delivery Programme Competition 2
Aligned to the NAIGT roadmap and research agenda, the competition aims to accelerate research and development leading to the reduction of carbon emissions from mass market road vehicles - now closed for expressions of interest. Click here for more details.

Integrated Delivery Programme Competition 3

Now closed for expressions of interest - This call invites outline proposals for small-scale, short term feasibility projects exploring future technologies that might contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions from the UK vehicle market and so help support the uptake of low carbon vehicles. This call is being run in conjunction with the Technology Strategy Board's Integrated Delivery Programme (IDP) where it forms the strategic portfolio of that activity, supporting the flow of research ideas into the IDP from academia.

Submissions to this call will be initially assessed through project outlines. Those outlines that are successful will be invited to submit a full, more detailed proposal. Subject to the quality of the submissions received, up to £3 million is available for this call, which is expected to support projects of between 12 and 18 months in duration.

Integrated Delivery Programme Competition 4
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Call briefs
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More information: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/lowcarbon.htm