VocTech Challenge Impact Network + Grant Fund

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:

1. 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?
2. 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?
3. 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?

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.