The future flight challenge for Innovate UK will invest up to £500,000 in projects to close aviation industry skills gaps.

The aim of the competition is to create and deliver course content and materials that will support skills, talent and training across the future flight sector. The purpose of this is to build awareness of future flight emerging markets and fill key gaps in the United Kingdom’s workforce talent and training capabilities.

Projects can deliver one or more of these objectives:

  • Schools’ engagement
  • Apprenticeships and internships
  • Upskilling and reskilling of existing workforce
  • Technical courses and vocational training
  • Undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development (CPD)

See: Competition overview – Future flight: closing the skills gaps – Innovation Funding Service (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk)