Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 7: Feasibility Studies

Funding Amount

The Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 7: Feasibility studies is a grant competition from Innovate UK, funded by the Department for Transport, to support primarily desk-based technical and economic feasibility studies for innovative clean maritime technologies and skills.

Total funding pool: Up to £121 million across the three strands of the competition (Feasibility Studies, Pre-Deployment Trials, and Deployment Trials).

Funding per project: A project’s total eligible costs must be between £100,000 and £1 million.

Funding rates for feasibility studies are stated as follows for eligible project costs:

• Up to 70% for a micro or small organisation

• Up to 60% for a medium-sized organisation

• Up to 50% for a large organisation

Eligible Applicants

To lead a collaborative project, the lead organisation must:

• Be a UK registered business of any size

• Collaborate with other UK registered organisations

Eligible Activities

This strand funds feasibility studies of innovative clean maritime technologies and skills.

The project must undertake a primarily desk-based technical and economic feasibility study associated with the development and future real-world demonstration of innovative technologies for:

• On-vessel use

• Maritime infrastructure use

• Skills

• Or a combination of these

Feasibility projects must not plan to test technologies in the water as part of this project. The project must:

• Deliver a meaningful feasibility study before March 2028

• Underpin a future deployment by December 2029

• Support a significant reduction in well-to-wake greenhouse gas emissions from the maritime sector

• Include at least one representative end user, such as a vessel operator, port or harbour authority

• Demonstrate market potential and a clear commercialisation strategy

• Bring together a team with the expertise needed to deliver the objectives.

Eligible projects can focus on one or more of the following priority or thematic areas Priority themes

• Fishing vessels and inland waterways vessels

• Projects combining vessel or infrastructure technology themes with smart shipping technology themes

• Zero and near zero GHG emission fuel systems, such as ammonia or hydrogen

• Retrofitting clean maritime technology to existing vessels

Thematic areas:

• Vessel technology themes

• Infrastructure technologies including offshore themes

• Smart shipping, digital and autonomous maritime technologies

Program Deadline

15 July 2026