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Our portfolio spans every region and country in the UK and demonstrates the value of aerospace R&D to the UK economy. Project consortia are made up of partners from industry, academia and research centres.

2020 Funding
We’ve designed a tool to help you find out which of the ATI Programme’s funding streams your proposal is most suited to – click below to get started. You can also find other information including guidance and governance, and other funding opportunities such as the ATI Boeing Accelerator.
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  • 2020
  • R&D for Smaller Business EOI opens9th Nov
  • November EOI closes18th Nov
  • NATEP closes18th Nov
  • Batch 35 opens30th Nov
  • 2021

Our Priority Areas

Air Transport Vision

The UK can achieve competitive advantage if we work to improve the overall air transport system through new technologies such as electrification and autonomy. New sustainable services will require much closer integration of the air transport system and the UK will only remain a major player if it is at the forefront of these technologies and capabilities.

Propulsion & Power

The UK must maintain world leadership in aircraft propulsion and power by developing the most efficient systems that lower environmental impact. The development and manufacture of propulsion systems constitutes around 50 per cent of the sector’s direct economic activity in the UK. Market needs and environmental imperatives demand ever more efficient propulsion and power systems, which the UK is well-positioned to deliver.

Systems

The R&D ecosystem in the UK offers a unique mix of capabilities for developing systems technologies. Greater autonomy in aircraft control will enable a new range of opportunities to grow the UK’s capabilities in current and emerging high-value aircraft systems. Affordable, secure, safety-critical software development processes and tools will be required, including high-performance modelling capabilities for whole systems and their components.

Vehicles

The UK needs to maintain world-class design, analysis, development and certification capabilities to deliver competitive high-value systems for current and emerging markets. The UK also has real opportunities to design and make new air vehicles for the emerging sub-regional and urban markets.

Aerostructures

The UK possesses the right expertise, technology and infrastructure to be at the forefront of the design and manufacture of the next generation of lightweight, digitally enabled, multi-functional aerostructures. It must develop and exploit the latest manufacturing and assembly techniques to remain as a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of aircraft structures.

News & Blog

Find the latest news, updates and blog posts from the ATI here.

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FlyZero as a strategic priority for the UK

20 November 2020

Chris Gear, Project Director for FlyZero, puts the research project in the context of the UK's strategic priorities for ...
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Interview with Andre Wegner, CEO Authentise

13 November 2020

In this guest blog from the ATI Boeing Accelerator, Gabriela Matic catches up with Andre Wegner, CEO and Co-Founder of A...
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Building the FlyZero team

06 November 2020

Chris Gear, Project Director for FlyZero, provides an update on the project's first steps.
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ATI appoints Chris Gear as Project Director f...

29 October 2020

Former CTO of GKN Aerospace to lead UK research into zero-carbon emission aircraft concepts.
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ATI Programme: R&D for Smaller Business fundi...

26 October 2020

Announcing the latest call in the ATI Programme aimed at supporting the UK supply chain.
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Apply now for FlyZero!

21 October 2020

Six key roles on the FlyZero team are now open for applications.
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Changes to funding rates for ATI Programme

28 September 2020

The 50:50 matched funding policy for Industrial Research applications to the ATI Programme will be suspended from 1st Oc...
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Q&A: Changes to funding rates for ATI Program...

28 September 2020

A Q&A to explain the changes to the ATI Programme that will be introduced on 1st October 2020.
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FlyZero Q&A

24 August 2020

Answers to some of the questions asked during the recent FlyZero webinar
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ATI response to UK Gov R&D roadmap

23 August 2020

The ATI has responded to the UK Government's call to be part of the conversation around R&D.
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