Sponsoring Agency: Innovate UK
Type of Fund: Research and Development
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/28/2021
Size of the Fund: USD $50,000 to $500,000
UK registered businesses and research organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million for feasibility studies to address the farming challenges of productivity, sustainability, and net zero emissions.
The aim of this competition is to support the development of novel innovations to develop and support a productive, resilient, and sustainable agricultural sector.
This funding is delivered through the ISCF Transforming Food Production programme, in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
This development is achieved through the investment of up to £5 million in feasibility studies in the agricultural sector.
Your project must address one or more high priority areas in at least one of these four industry subsectors:
• Livestock.
• Plant.
• Novel food production systems.
• Bioeconomy and agroforestry.
Your proposal must engage with farmers, growers or producers to explore the potential of early-stage farm-focused solutions. These solutions must solve the short to long-term challenges of productivity, sustainability, and net zero emissions.”
Funding Information
Your project must:
• have total eligible costs between £75,000 and £250,000
• start by 1 October 2021
• last between 12 and 18 months
Eligibility Criteria
• Funding for this competition is from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ Future Farming and Countryside Programme. Your project can be based anywhere in the UK but must generate benefits to the English farming sector.
• This competition is for collaborative feasibility studies only.
• Your proposal should focus on the early-stage development of technologies, systems or approaches that will make significant steps towards improving productivity, increasing sustainability and resilience. It must:
o demonstrate or deliver outcomes or benefits for farmers
o help the agriculture sector to move towards achieving net zero emissions by 2040
Lead organisation
To lead a project your organisation must:
• be a UK registered business of any size, academic institution, research organisation or a research and technology organisation (RTO)
• collaborate with other UK registered businesses, research organisations or RTOs
• carry out its project work in the UK
• intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
Research organisation led projects must collaborate with at least one business.
Project team
To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must:
• be a UK registered business, academic institution, research organisation or research and technology organisation (RTO)
• carry out its project work in the UK
• intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
The lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application.
More information at: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/853/overview
