Key information
Grant status:
The VocTech Challenge Impact Network + Grant Fund is now closed for applications.
Purpose of the fund
This grant fund is part of our VocTech Challenge: Skills for an Economy in Transition programme.
Informed by the learnings from our place-based collaborations we are looking for bold, tech-led approaches to tackle one of three specific challenges:
- Employer integration:
How can technology be used to integrate and reflect employers’ changing needs so that the skills of the available workforce better reflect the needs of local employers? - Pathways into and within work:
How can technology be used to increase the visibility, accessibility and uptake of pathways from learning into work, or from one type of work into another, particularly in regional growth sectors? - Vocational language barriers:
How can technology be used to support adults with in-demand vocational skills, but who don’t speak English as their first language, gain the industry-specific English required by employers?
Impact Network + Grant Fund
The VocTech Challenge Impact Network + Grant Fund represents a new approach to Ufi grant funding.
Successful grant fund applicants will each receive between £200k and £250k to refine and deploy their ideas.
They will also join a network of organisations working alongside each other as part of an active, expert-led programme designed to create connections, share knowledge, test assumptions and accelerate adoption and deployment.
See below for full details.
Explore the organisations offered VocTech Challenge grant funding
Six organisations have been offered funding from Ufi’s £1.5 million VocTech Challenge Impact Network + Grant Fund to refine and deploy digital solutions and approaches to tackle systemic barriers in adult learning.
Eligibility checker
Interested in seeing if your project could be eligible for the Impact Network + Grant Fund?
Start here for an initial indication of what we are looking for and whether the grant could be right for you.
Explore our previous cohort of organisations awarded VocTech Challenge grant funding
The VocTech Challenge: Levelling up learning grant fund targeted projects with the potential to create a step-change in learner confidence and motivation, leading to better outcomes for learners, employers and for society as a whole.