Giving innovators creativity and confidence through design

Design to Deliver aims to unlock the potential of our design industry to benefit the small businesses tackling some of the UK’s biggest challenges.

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About the Programme

The UK design industry is a powerhouse. But our innovative small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often don’t benefit from its expertise.

By providing funding and design expertise for SMEs tackling big challenges, Design to Deliver aims to support the development of better products and services.  

Design to Deliver is a collaboration between three Catapult centres: Connected Places Catapult, Digital Catapult and Satellite Applications Catapult – funded by Innovate UK. Each Catapult has set a challenge in their respective industries, linked by the theme of regenerating nature.   

Four SME-led projects will be selected per challenge, with each SME receiving an initial £50,000 to develop their solution alongside a proposed trial plan. In addition to funding, each project will also receive support from a specialised design consultancy, the respective Catapults’ technical team and a location partner.

Theme & Challenges

Unlocking human behaviours to regenerate nature through leveraging accessible, accurate and actionable information.

Unlocking human behaviours to regenerate nature through leveraging accessible, accurate and actionable information.

This year’s Design to Deliver challenges are centred on the theme of regenerating nature. The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. To address this, we must design products and services that reconnect people with nature and support data-driven  decision making.

Each Catapult has set a challenge that relates to regenerating nature, within their  respective industries.

Applications for SMEs responding to these challenges have now closed. Assessment is currently underway and the innovators selected will be announced publicly in the new year.

Collective solutions for wild urban places

How might be use information to contribute to the successful implementation, stewardship, and maintenance of wild urban places?

Informed choices for nature positive actions

How can you develop a solution leveraging existing data, to help citizens be better informed to make nature-conscious decisions?

Space-enabled information for a thriving world

How can you translate space-enabled data and services into information that is trusted and actionable, fuelling responsible behaviours towards nature?

News

Design experts selected to support innovators connecting people with nature

The Design to Deliver consortium has chosen consultancies that will support SMEs as they develop solutions that unlock human behaviours to regenerate nature.

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