UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million for the development of data sharing or data exchanging technologies. This funding is from Innovate UK. The competition closes on Wednesday 13 December 2023.

The aim of this competition, as part of the Innovate UK funded net zero mobility programme, is to understand and overcome the barriers for data sharing or data exchanging in transport.

We will fund collaborative feasibility studies covering the optimal sharing of data or the exchanging of transport data. You project must demonstrate significant improvements in overcoming the barriers to the sharing or exchanging of data. These include:

• lack of incentives to share data
• lack of knowledge
• lack of data standards
• commercial, ethical, and reputational risks
• legal and regulatory risks
• costs of data access
• security and privacy

Further information on these barriers to data sharing can be found at Increasing access to data held across the economy.

Your project can address the sharing or exchanging of data between platforms, vehicles, people, freight and infrastructure.

You are encouraged to apply your knowledge and capability to adjacent transport sectors. Your project can demonstrate the data exchange between any mode of transport, either within a mode or across different modes, for example just within maritime or across micromobility and rail transport modes.

Your project must:

• demonstrate a need for data sharing for example a data owner or a problem owner
• demonstrate what a potential data sharing or data exchange platform might look like and how it might operate in a viably economic manner, this can include aspects of cyber security and privacy as well as other economic considerations
• explain how you will engage potential end users to develop a commercially viable use case and examine how to commercialise data, either through a brokerage or through some other mechanism

Your project can address:

• the mapping of the value chain for data
• the quality of data
• validation of data
• validation of data users
• how to address the source of data
• how to build a platform to enable the effective sharing or exchanging of data
• data security

You are encouraged to consider cyber security and privacy considerations as part of your application.Portfolio approach

We want to fund a variety of projects across different technologies, markets, locations, company size, technological maturities, commercial challenges and themes. We call this a portfolio approach.

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