Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 7: Deployment Trials — Historical 2026 Reference (Closed)

Historical reference: CMDC 7 deployment trials is closed

Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 7 (CMDC 7): Deployment trials was a UK grant competition for innovative clean maritime technologies. The official UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) opportunity page now marks the competition Closed. Its closing date was 15 July 2026 at 11:00am UK time. That date has passed, so this page is an archive reference rather than an invitation to submit an application.

The competition was funded by Innovate UK, and the UKRI listing says the funding came from the Department for Transport. The listing records a total fund of up to £121,000,000 across the competition’s three strands. That is the total competition fund shown on the official page, not a promise that any individual applicant would receive £121 million.

The official source remains the UKRI opportunity page:

https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/clean-maritime-demonstration-competition-7-deployment-trials/

No successor Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition round or new application deadline is announced on the verified page. Do not treat this archive entry as evidence that a later round is open. If you are looking for a current call, check the official Innovate UK and UKRI listings separately for a newly published opportunity.

Verified facts at a glance

These are the facts that can be supported by the current UKRI page. The page does not provide a new deadline, a successor competition name, or a current application route for a later cycle.

What the historical call covered

The title identifies the focus as deployment trials within the seventh Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition. The official listing describes the subject as innovative clean maritime technologies and says that the fund was divided across three strands. It does not, on the current summary page, provide a fresh description of every strand, an award size for each strand, or a new timetable. Those details should not be reconstructed from the total fund or carried over from an older summary without checking the full competition record.

The phrase “deployment trials” is important for interpreting the archived opportunity. A reader consulting this page should understand that the call concerned work intended for trial or deployment in a maritime setting, but should not infer a particular technology, vessel type, port, fuel, emissions target, or technical maturity requirement unless that detail is confirmed in the full Innovation Funding Service record. The UKRI summary is enough to establish the broad clean-maritime focus, the grant format, the funders, the collaboration requirement, and the historical deadline. It is not a substitute for the competition’s complete archived guidance.

The £121 million figure also needs careful reading. UKRI presents it as funding available across three strands. It is therefore useful as a record of the scale of the competition, but it does not establish an amount reserved for deployment trials alone, a standard award per project, or a guaranteed percentage of eligible costs. A historical researcher comparing maritime funding calls should preserve the figure with that qualification.

Eligibility recorded for CMDC 7

The UKRI page states that UK registered organisations could apply for a share of the funding. It also states that the competition was open to collaborations only. To lead a collaborative project, the lead organisation had to be a UK registered business and had to collaborate with other UK registered organisations.

That wording is the safe eligibility summary for this archive. It supports the following practical reading of the closed cycle:

• A UK registered business could be the lead organisation for a collaborative project.
• A lead proposal could not be treated as a solo application, because the official listing expressly says that collaborations only were permitted.
• Other UK registered organisations had to be part of the collaboration for a lead project.
• The listing does not, by itself, establish that every kind of organisation, overseas participant, subcontractor, or partner arrangement was eligible under every strand.

The last point matters because a short opportunity page is not the same thing as full eligibility guidance. Universities, charities, public bodies, overseas specialists, and subcontractors should not be assumed eligible or ineligible from this summary alone. For a historical review, consult the archived Innovation Funding Service details if the precise participation rules are material. For a new proposal, use the rules of the current call instead; CMDC 7’s closed-cycle rules cannot be treated as the rules for an unannounced successor.

What the application process was, and what it is now

While the competition was live, the official UKRI page directed applicants to the Innovation Funding Service for the full opportunity details. The listing’s high-level route was therefore:

1. Check the complete competition guidance in the Innovation Funding Service.
2. Confirm that the proposed applicants met the UK registration and collaboration conditions.
3. Ensure that the lead organisation was a UK registered business.
4. Prepare the application through the service identified in the full opportunity details.
5. Submit before 15 July 2026 at 11:00am UK time.

That sequence describes the historical route at the level supported by the official page. It should not be presented as an active checklist today. The closing date has passed, and the current UKRI page labels the opportunity Closed. A visitor cannot use this entry to start a new CMDC 7 deployment-trials application.

There is also no basis here for promising that an old application can be amended, reopened, or transferred into a later competition. If you participated in the closed round, use the relevant Innovation Funding Service record and any direct communication from Innovate UK for the status of that submission. If you did not apply, this page can help you understand the type of call that existed, but it cannot supply a current route to funding.

Materials and checks for an archived proposal review

Because CMDC 7 is closed, there are no current submission materials to assemble for this page. A reader reviewing an old proposal or grant file may still want to locate the following records:

• The completed Innovation Funding Service application or application reference.
• The consortium list showing the lead UK registered business and collaborating UK registered organisations.
• The version of the competition guidance used when the application was prepared.
• The submitted budget and the strand to which the project was assigned.
• The project description explaining the clean maritime technology and the intended deployment trial.
• Any correspondence from Innovate UK or the Department for Transport connected with the funding decision.

Those items are sensible archive-management categories, not additional requirements asserted by the current UKRI summary. The page confirms the funder, funding source, grant format, broad technology focus, collaboration condition, and deadline. It does not list a complete set of attachments or assessment questions in the visible summary. Do not label any particular document as mandatory for CMDC 7 unless the full historical guidance confirms it.

For a current funding search, the same discipline applies: start with the official call, identify the named funder, read the full eligibility rules, and record the exact deadline in the new opportunity’s own terms. Do not copy the £121 million total, the collaboration rule, or the 15 July 2026 date into a later call unless the later official source repeats them.

Timeline for the closed cycle

The UKRI page records a publication date of 12 March 2026 and an opening date of 11 March 2026 at 9:30am UK time. It records the closing date as 15 July 2026 at 11:00am UK time. The closing date is the date retained in this entry’s deadline field because the page is now a historical reference and the archive should preserve the real end of the cycle.

The metadata deliberately stores the deadline as the single ISO date 2026-07-15, rather than putting the time or an explanatory sentence in that field. The time-zone detail belongs in the body. This keeps the archive’s date machine-readable while making the historical status clear to people reading the page.

There is no later date to add. The verified UKRI page does not announce another CMDC round, another deployment-trials strand, or a replacement deadline. A future official announcement may create a separate current opportunity, but it should be recorded from that announcement rather than guessed from CMDC 7.

How to use this page now

Use this entry for historical research, funding-history comparisons, and background reading about a major UK clean-maritime grant competition. It can help answer questions such as which organisation funded the call, how large the total fund was, what broad eligibility structure was stated, and when applications closed.

Do not use it as a live application page. The “Closed” status is not a temporary warning, and the deadline is not an upcoming date. The official URL is retained because it is the authoritative record and currently resolves successfully, but a working URL does not mean the opportunity is accepting applications.

If a new clean-maritime project is ready for funding, check current official Innovate UK and UKRI opportunities and read their own guidance from the beginning. Confirm the current funder, funding source, eligible applicants, collaboration conditions, available amount, and deadline for that specific call. Until an official successor is published, there is no verified next CMDC deployment-trials round to apply to through this page.

Official source

The authoritative historical record is the UKRI opportunity page, which identifies the opportunity as a grant, names Innovate UK as funder, identifies the Department for Transport as the funding source, records the total fund of up to £121 million across three strands, states the UK registration and collaboration conditions, and marks the call Closed:

https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/clean-maritime-demonstration-competition-7-deployment-trials/