Eligibility Criteria:
- Businesses must be based in the Liverpool City Region
- Businesses must not have received more than the set threshold of Minimum Financial Assistance (MFA), either directly or through any organisation/group it is a member of, in the current and previous two financial tax years.
- The project will focus on SMEs but we are able to work with businesses of all sizes across the region, depending on need and impact.
If you’d like to discuss eligibility, contact the LCEI team via email.
Get in touch via email to arrange an initial chat to discuss eligibility and how the project can best support your business.
Once we have confirmed eligibility, you will need to complete and sign a registration form. The LCEI team can support this where needed. All LCEI documentation is signed digitally via Adobe Sign.
Once registration is complete, the team will work with you to develop an Action Plan outlining how LCEI will support your business. The Action Plan will include an MFA (Subsidy Control) estimate and declaration.
Next, LCEI’s researchers will produce a bespoke report based on the work agreed in the Action Plan.
This could be a baseline carbon report for your business, a student research project, or an academic collaboration exploring a particular area of sustainability.
As a publicly-funded project, there is paperwork involved that is unavoidable. But we promise it’s not that bad!
There are several stages but it’s all straightforward, and the team is here to help at every step.
Our research can cover a particular area of sustainability or carbon reduction you are interested in exploring for your business.
Student Projects can provide whole-business carbon assessments, looking at Carbon Scopes 1, 2 and 3, to determine where you can make the biggest impact in reducing your business’s carbon emissions. Student projects can also focus on R&D, prototyping and testing.
We also offer collaboration opportunities with specialist academics looking at specific areas of low carbon/sustainability research.
