10th November 2020

Funding Available For Products To Support Fight Against COVID Challenges

The Welsh Government is making funding available to support businesses with innovative products and services that will help communities and the public sector adapt to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI), which can offer up to £50,000 to promising projects able to start in January 2021 and complete by the end of March, will also be important for schemes that can support the public sector after the EU Transition period.

The focus will be on creating better lives closer to home, by delivering against three key objectives that support the Welsh Government’s Economic Action Plan.

These are to build back green; to create sustainability and security in supply chains; and to support mental and physical wellbeing for all generations.

Economy minister Ken Skates said: “The coronavirus pandemic is the biggest public health emergency this country has ever faced.

“We need people with expertise, entrepreneurship and innovative thinking to work with us and help deliver sustainable solutions to the challenges it poses to the long term wellbeing of our communities and economy.”