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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
  • August EOI closes19th August
  • Batch 34 opens31st August
  • September EOI opens7th September
  • September EOI closes23rd September
  • 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 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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BioSafe Air Travel Study – Request for Quotat...

05 August 2020

The ATI is seeking candidate organisations to lead a package of work researching the technologies to address the hygiene...
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Airspace 2050: Three Futures

22 July 2020

The ATI has today released a new publication aimed at providing the UK aerospace industry with fresh perspectives on the...
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ATI launches FlyZero initiative for UK to lea...

20 July 2020

New ground-breaking strategic research project led by the ATI with participation of UK industry and academia.
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Target 2.4%: R&D expenditure in the UK

07 July 2020

Juan Fernandez, Senior Economist at the ATI, takes a look at the role of R&D in the UK.
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Setting out the hydrogen opportunity

03 July 2020

The ATI and key partners have submitted joint responses to two calls for evidence to explore the potential of hydrogen i...
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ATI welcomes Government R&D roadmap

01 July 2020

Today’s announcement from the Government of a new R&D roadmap, as well as a £300m investment in research infrastructure,...
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In-flight social distancing

29 June 2020

With social distancing rapidly becoming our new normal, how could this work in aviation and what would it mean for the c...
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UK ARPA - the ATI responds

29 June 2020

Our response to the inquiry into the government’s plans for a new UK research funding agency.
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