View the website at https://farminginnovation.ukri.org
Two competitions for large collaborative projects opened in March 2022:
Large R&D Partnership projects - deadline 29 June 2022
Farming Futures R&D Fund: Climate Smart Farming - deadline 18 May 2022
Research Starter projects - Round 2 opening May 2022
Defra has recently announced a new research and development competition, focussed on ‘Sustainable farm-based Proteins’ is opening for applications in the Farming Innovation Programme.
£12.5 million is available for research and development to enhance the productivity and environmental impact of proteins that are grown or raised by farmers, and will be split across early stage feasibility projects, and industrial research projects. We will fund a wide range of projects - from traditional livestock and plant production to novel animal feeds/supplements, agroforestry and the bioeconomy. Project size is from £200k to £1M
How to apply for Feasibility projects
How to apply for Industrial research projects.
On 3rd August Innovate-UK-KTN are hosting an applicant briefing webinar from 10am followed by a consortia-building workshop at 12:45pm. More details on this can be found here. ,
If you have ideas for these calls or would like to build a consortium use the comments below, or set up your idea as a new Group page.
Results from previous feasibility competition have been announced here - https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-awards-more-than-8m-to-innovative-new-farming-concepts/