The Ideas Elevator - Maritime Decarbonisation

Register your interest in our pilot programme for disruptive, very early-stage and exciting ideas and concepts (at Technology Readiness Level 1-2) that may alter the future landscape of clean maritime and have the potential to lead to radical change. This will be open to SMEs and Academics.

Low-TRL concepts from any discipline are welcome, particularly those emerging from exploratory research and underpinned by a clear theoretical rationale.

Innovators selected for the programme will receive:

  1. expert feedback on idea sketches

  2. pitch deck development support and pitch training

  3. an opportunity to attend a Pitch Day to present ideas to a panel of DfT, industry and Connected Places Catapult experts.

The best ideas presented during the Pitch Day will be fast-tracked to the TRIG Programme.  

For the first Ideas Elevator programme, the focus will be on applications addressing challenges for maritime decarbonisation.  The specific challenges will be announced as part of the programme launch in the Spring. 

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