Our Sponsors
Our Foundation
For more than four decades, Zuken has helped leading innovators turn ideas into products through a tightly integrated tool‑chain that spans Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) down to detailed electrical and electronic design. This proven E/E expertise remains our bedrock, but—crucially for this alliance—it also gives us a unique vantage point: we understand how every system decision echoes through hardware, software, and manufacturing. By connecting data, people, and processes across disciplines, we have already enabled faster cycles, higher quality, and true digital continuity for thousands of customers worldwide.
Our shared ambition
Tomorrow’s systems must thrive amid shifting requirements, emerging technologies, and new socio‑economic constraints. Together with Strategic Engineering Consulting Ltd. we champion Engineering for Uncertainty—embedding strategic thinking directly into MBSE so architectures stay resilient and valuable over decades, not just design cycles. Leveraging Zuken’s open MBSE platform and Strategic Engineering Consulting’s long‑horizon, value‑driven methodology, we will help organisations move from static, requirement‑led models to adaptive, insight‑rich system designs that anticipate change rather than react to it. This partnership lets customers explore options earlier, quantify trade‑offs, and steer development with confidence—turning complexity into competitive advantage and sustainable impact.
Who we are
EPSRC is the main funding body for engineering and physical sciences research in the UK. Our diverse portfolio ranges from digital technologies to clean energy, manufacturing to mathematics, advanced materials to chemistry. EPSRC invests in world-leading research and skills to advance knowledge and deliver a sustainable, resilient and prosperous UK. We support new ideas and transformative technologies which are the foundations of innovations that improve our economy, environment and society. In partnership and co-investing with industry, we work to deliver both national and global priorities.
Our Big Ideas initiative
EPSRC’s Big Ideas initiative is a route through which members of the community can engage with us to inform our future plans and priorities. We want to identify exciting, adventurous and potentially transformative ideas that will spark creativity and attract the enthusiasm of researchers, the public, industry and government, potentially shaping the next generation of research and innovation priorities. Our updated Big Ideas process is now simpler, making it easier for you to share your ideas with us. As well as detailing how to submit new ideas, this page tells you about ideas that have already been submitted. It demonstrates how they have impacted the research that EPSRC supports, be this through the development of bids for additional funding or through ideas being used to inform our future strategies and priorities.