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Farming Futures R&D Fund: low emissions farming in Lancashire

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Description

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has allocated up to £12.5 million to fund innovation projects in this competition.
This funding is part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme which is delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.

Defra and UKRI will work in collaboration to deliver a portfolio of projects that meet the objectives of the Farming Innovation Programme.
The aim of this competition is to fund collaborative projects that will develop new solutions to support UK farming working towards achieving low emissions. These must address major on-farm or immediate post farmgate challenges or opportunities.

Projects in this competition must:

  • develop ambitious solutions that will reduce emissions in existing farming practices
  • carry out a life cycle assessment (LCA) for the solution developed
  • demonstrate impact and measure of carbon as a number to facilitate foot printing and potential trading, but other emissions must not be ignored
  • demonstrate and measure wider environmental benefits, as contributors to low emission farming
  • encourage dissemination and knowledge exchange to the wider sector and increase the maturity or market readiness of emerging solutions
  • ensure concepts are closely aligned with industry priorities to deliver business orientated, transformative opportunities

Projects must evidence how the solution will benefit farmers, growers or foresters in England.
Any successful projects may have a Defra appointed third party, carry out an independent LCA on the solution towards the end of the project.
This competition has a two stage assessment. If your project is assessed as eligible, you may be invited to present at interview. The selection of successful projects will be decided after interviews.

In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition has a funding limit, so we may not be able to fund all the proposed projects. It may be the case that your project scores highly but we are still unable to fund it.
This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated in this Innovate UK competition brief. We cannot guarantee other government, or third party sites will always show the correct competition information.
Funding type
Grant

Project size
Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £1 million and £2.5 million.

Accessibility and Inclusion
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to making our application process accessible to everyone. This includes making reasonable adjustments, for people who have a disability or a long term condition and face barriers applying to us.
You can contact us at any time to ask for guidance.
We recommend you contact us at least 15 working days before this competition’s closing date to allow us to put the most suitable support in place. The support we can provide may be limited if you contact us close to the competition deadline.
You can contact Innovate UK by email or call 0300 321 4357. Our phone lines are open from 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 5pm UK time, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).
Funding Expires 3 months from now

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