Key Features
UK businesses and RTOs can apply for a share of up to £2 million to define a cyber-physical connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) test facility.
Programme: Innovate UK
Award: Share of up to £2 million
Opens: 12th Aug 2019
Closes: 25th Sep 2019
Overview
The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) is partnering with Zenzic (formally Meridian Mobility) and Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation. Together they will invest up to £2 million in a maximum of 5 projects to support the development of a connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) cyber-security testing capability.
Scope
Your proposal must fulfill all 3 of the following general requirements.
1. Find ways to measure and maintain cyber-physical resilience and identify vulnerabilities
Your project must identify methods to create and test cyber-physical and software architectures. This can include designs for vehicles, roadside infrastructure, supporting services and so on.
You should provide industry guidance for best practice in design and lifetime management and advice to government for future certification processes.
At the end of your project you must provide a report to answer this requirement. This will be shared with appropriate government agencies and may become public.
2. Provide test facility input specifications
Support the creation of specifications for one, or a selection of, new cyber test facilities as appropriate. These may be physical or virtual facilities or a combination.
At the end of your project you must provide a short report to answer this requirement. This will become a public document and will be available to any organisation considering building a cyber test facility.
3. Explore commercial opportunities
Explore opportunities to develop new cyber related services in the UK and global CAV marketplace.
At the end of your project you must provide a summary report to answer this requirement. This will be kept confidential between Innovate UK, CCAV and Zenzic.
Specific Themes
This competition is split into 5 themes. Your proposal must answer one of these.
1. Monitoring
Determine and develop techniques to monitor the cyber health of CAVs and supporting infrastructure.
Your techniques should determine when the vehicle (or infrastructure) is operating outside of normal parameters and recommend suitable responses. You should also consider how monitoring may fit into cyber security management systems (CSMSs).
2. Threats to connected vehicle networks
Determine how to use physical and virtual testing to identify and mitigate against complex threats.
Consider all interactions of vehicles, road-side communications equipment, smart infrastructure, mobile communications equipment and other possible factors which may present vulnerabilities or allow the growth of cyber threats.
3. Threats to automated vehicles
Investigate how individual automated vehicles (AVs) may be able to develop resilience and respond to cyber-attacks. The AV should be considered as a stand-alone system and as part of the wider connected vehicle network.
Research should include directed attacks against vehicle systems, including perception sensors and manipulation through data connections and shared information protocols, such as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X).
4. Countermeasure and risk mitigation
Determine suitable scalable techniques that could be deployed as cyber threat countermeasures and what processes could be undertaken as risk mitigation.
Your solution should consider the connected vehicle and its supporting infrastructure.
5. Other
Other areas of cyber security which may improve the safety and security of vehicle occupants, service users, other road users (including vulnerable road users) and road safety at any scale.
Eligibility
To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
To collaborate with the lead organisation your organisation must:
Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total eligible project costs.
Funding Costs
Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £50,000 and £800,000.
You can receive grant funding of up to £400,000 for your total eligible project costs.
For feasibility studies, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:
The academic institutions or public sector organisations in your consortium can share up to 50% of the total eligible project costs. If your consortium contains more than one such organisation, this maximum is shared between them.
Projects must start by 1 January 2020 and end by 31 March 2020. They can last between 3 and 4 months.
Innovate UK will not accept any project expenditure after 31 March 2020.
Zenzic contribution
Zenzic Ltd is established by CCAV as the hub to support the UK CAV ecosystem both in the UK and internationally. It is funded by government and industry.
All collaborators on your project must contribute 4% of the value of grant received to the running costs of Zenzic. This is not a claimable cost.
In order to comply with state aid regulations, the contribution cannot be provided by government. It is not eligible for grant funding. Zenzic will invoice all project partners for 4% of their grant fund value each time a grant payment is made. Project partners must demonstrate they have set up payment terms with Zenzic before the project can start.
If a partner is unable to fund the fee for good reason, the other project partners must provide the shortfall. Such arrangements should be agreed by the consortium and covered in the consortium agreement.
There is a charter outlining the principles by which Zenzic and the projects will collaborate.
Exclusions
Innovate UK are not funding:
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