Eligibility Check
We need to ensure that you meet our funder’s eligibility requirements. Our funder is the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as mentioned in our about page
Sorry!
Based on your answers you do not currently seem to meet our funder (European Regional Development Fund) eligibility rules so we are unable to offer any support by RISE. ERDF stipulates that only small and medium sized enterprises meeting certain criteria can participate.
If your business circumstances change or you would like to speak to us about ERDF funding, your state aid or this decision contact us at RISE@brighton.ac.uk.
Even though you may be ineligible for support from RISE, the universities would still love to hear from you to see if there are any other ways we might be able to work with you.
You can read more about how the universities work with businesses and email us through links below:
University of Brighton
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/enterprise/index.aspx
enterprise@brighton.ac.uk
University of Sussex
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/collaborate/research-and-development-partnerships
collaborate@sussex.ac.uk
We wish you well in your innovation journey! Of course, you are still welcome to check back regularly to read more about what we are doing and for the latest innovation news.

Great! Your RISE member portal registration is complete.
We’ll send you an email shortly with your login details. Our funder requires we gather some further information from you to be able to confirm that you meet all their criteria to access the fully-funded programme of innovation support. A member of the RISE team will be in contact in the next week to introduce themselves and help you with these final bits of information we have to supply.
But we’ll soon get you started on your innovation journey with access to our RISE member portal. Look out for our email with these details send in the next few days. If you have any further questions do contact us so we can help – RISE@brighton.ac.uk