Growth Cohorts: Next Generation Low Carbon Concrete — Entry
Funds UK businesses developing next-generation low carbon concrete technologies through an Innovate UK cohort entry grant.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), administers this Stage 1 cohort-entry grant under the Growth Cohorts: Next Generation Low Carbon Concrete programme. Innovate UK will invest up to £11.5 million across both stages of this two-stage competition; up to £1 million is allocated to this first stage. Each Stage 1 award is a fixed grant of £50,000, funded at 100% of eligible project…
Next-generation low carbon concrete and concrete decarbonisation — including alternatives to Ordinary Portland Cement, cement and concrete production efficiency, recycling of cement, additives to reduce carbon footprint of concrete, carbon sequestration in concrete, concrete chemistry for reinforced concrete, and efficiency of cement and concrete use.
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