Royal Academy of Engineering Regional Talent Engines 2025 (£20,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: May 6, 2025

Applications are open for the Royal Academy of Engineering Regional Talent Engines 2025. The Regional Talent Engines is a six-month pre-accelerator programme for early-stage founders in Northern England, Northern Ireland and Wales to remodel nice concepts into new engineering startups. The programme contains coaching held in central places in Belfast, Swansea, Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle.

The programme is designed to give you the sensible help it is advisable to assist refine your innovation and convey your imaginative and prescient to life. By the tip of the programme, you may be prepared to hunt additional help to your new startup or pitch to your first funding to carry your innovation to market.

Benefits

A spot on the programme contains:

• an fairness-free grant of £20,000 in direction of residing prices
• coaching workshops, roundtables and speaker occasions in a location near you: Belfast, Swansea, Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle
• one-to-one enterprise teaching and mentoring
• free, lifetime entry to their co-working areas throughout the UK

Eligibility

Applicant

• You should be resident within the area that you’re making use of to take part within the programme, or based mostly in a close-by space, and in a position to attend coaching periods in a single of the said places inside an inexpensive journey distance. The organisers can not settle for candidates from the Midlands, the South of England or Scotland for this programme.
• You will need to have technical understanding within the space of your innovation​.
• You will need to have the fitting to reside and work within the UK​ and be based mostly within the UK full-time.
• You ought to usually be an skilled engineer or tech skilled (skilled engineer is outlined as mid-late profession or somebody with at the least 5 years’ expertise working in an engineering or know-how setting).
• You should have the ability to commit time to taking part within the programme full-time from October 2025. 
• You should be at the least 18 to apply​. 
• You can’t be in full-time study or employment if accepted onto the programme​. 
• Previous expertise of commercialisation or enterprise just isn’t required​. 

Innovation

• You will need to have an revolutionary engineering or know-how-based mostly answer to an recognized drawback, or market want,​ that you’ve got been concerned within the growth of
• Your innovation needs to be past invention stage (Technology Readiness Level 2 or above) with a sensible application recognized, the idea formulated and the need to develop a enterprise proposition​. If you have already got a Minimum Viable Product then you might be seemingly too superior for this programme
• Your startup ought to have the potential to be self-sustaining and scalable 
• If you’ve already registered a brand new enterprise, the innovation mustn’t presently be out there to the market aside from as a prototype with restricted gross sales 
• You should be dedicated to establishing your new startup within the area the place you might be making use of to take part within the programme​ or your close by space
• You mustn’t usually have raised substantial quantities of funding to your innovation, as you may be too superior for this programme
• They can not settle for functions from people wishing to start out a consultancy enterprise​ 
• They can not settle for concepts for cell apps, web sites or pure software program-based mostly creations until they’re underpinned by an revolutionary know-how, reminiscent of AI or machine studying, which you might be immediately contributing to creating.

Application

• One particular person per application​ 
• Only one application may be submitted by every particular person ​ 
• Only people can apply to the programme
• Applicants can solely re-apply as soon as with the identical innovation

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Regional Talent Engines.