This call is open to businesses of any size based within the Glasgow City Boundary. The lead applicant must:
As a solution provider/technology company you must have a proposed solution and a proven capability to conduct technical and commercial feasibility projects and be engaged with a challenge partner/customer.
To be eligible all feasibility/proof of concept projects must adhere to the following guidelines:
Your solution:
The following projects are out of scope:
We will consider a number of different factors, including:
Eligible Project Costs
Include a description of what is included under each subheading in your estimates of the project costs. The following list is a guide to which costs are eligible, but you should also list any others which you feel should be considered and provide a detailed breakdown of all the project costs. All costs included in the estimate must be your responsibility and be paid for by you. Please note that any money spent on the project before the agreed project start date will not be eligible for funding.
Salary costs - State your rates of staff costs and estimate the pay to staff working on the project and the amount of time each person is likely to spend working on the project. Include the names of staff members if you know this. Salary costs must be reasonable for the expertise needed. Your estimate should indicate the actual salaries each person will be paid, but please note that the eligible staff costs a grant will be paid on are limited to no more than an annual full-time equivalent salary of £60,000 per person. To receive support for salary costs, we will need full payroll information (for example, payslips, timesheets, BACs runs, bank statements and details of National insurance contributions you have paid) and evidence of you paying the salary costs. Salary costs should not: include any posts that have been specially created and are currently being part-funded with support from publicly funded job creation scheme, or from other publicly funded incentives.
Access to Data – costs incurred to access data sets, sources or data feeds that are generated directly from external sources and not freely available which are required to deliver this project. This can include, for example, www.data.nasa.gov https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot https://www.seos.org.uk https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/explore-data/data-collections . Access to geospatial data sources will also be eligible.
Consultants and subcontractors - If a proportion of the project costs is allocated for the cost of consultants or subcontractors, or fees for trials and testing, you should explain why the work cannot be carried out more effectively and cheaply in-house and identify who will be carrying out the work. Confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements should be in place with all third parties working on the project. Any intellectual property resulting from that work must be owned by your business. Directors’ time claimed on a consultancy or subcontracted basis must not include any profit and the eligible costs the grant will be paid on are limited to no more than an annual full-time equivalent fee of £60,000.
Software - If there is software involved in the project, this should be depreciated as follows:
Travel costs and expenses directly related to the project are eligible for support.
The MFA threshold is calculated at group level. It is the applicant’s responsibility to check whether funds received are MFA or comparable types of subsidy that contribute towards their MFA threshold (see section 42(8) of the Act). If in doubt, please check with the funding sources.
Applicants are required to keep a written record of the amount of any MFA it receives. The written record must be kept for at least three years beginning with the date on which the MFA is given. This will enable you to respond to future requests from public authorities on how much MFA you have received and whether you have reached the cumulative threshold.