Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 12, 2025

Applications are open for the Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme 2025. Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to speculate as much as £800,000 in progressive cyber safety initiatives coming from a tutorial analysis base.

The intention of this competitors is to establish essentially the most promising business alternatives in academia in respect to cyber safety. Your proposal should embody the world of your analysis, the issue that you’re fixing and your proposed resolution. The Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP) is an 11 month programme.

This is part 1 of a possible 2 part competitors. Phase 1 will last as long as 4 months, break up into two levels:

• an preliminary two months for worth proposition growth actions, adopted by a presentation to an impartial judging panel who will choose groups to go to stage 2.
• an additional two months for market validation actions.

Benefits

• Individuals based mostly in a UK tutorial establishment can apply for a share of as much as £800,000.

Eligibility

Your Project

Your challenge should:

• have complete prices between £5000 and £32,000 with £16,000 allotted to stage 1 and £16,000 to stage 2
• perform its challenge work within the UK
• intend to use the outcomes from or within the UK
• begin on April 1, 2025
• finish by July 31, 2025

Projects should at all times begin on the primary of the month, even when this can be a non-working day.

Lead Organisation

To lead a challenge or work alone it’s essential to:

• be based mostly in a UK registered tutorial establishment.
• have a cyber safety concept.
• have an interest within the commercialisation of your concept.
• have the help of your tutorial establishment’s know-how switch workplace or equal.
• not act in any strategy to achieve selective business or financial benefit from the outputs of this challenge.

Project Team

To collaborate with the lead, it’s essential to:

• be based mostly in a UK tutorial establishment.
• have an interest within the commercialisation of your concept.
• have the help of your tutorial establishment’s know-how switch workplace or equal.

Application

Before submitting, it’s the lead applicant’s accountability to ensure:

• that every one the data supplied within the application is right.
• your proposal meets the eligibility and scope standards.
• all sections of the application are marked as full.
• if collaborative, that every one companions have accomplished all assigned sections and accepted the phrases and circumstances (T&Cs).

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For extra info, go to Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator.