Funding and business support to accelerate your agri-tech ambition. The UK Agri-Tech Centre can accelerate your global agri-tech ambitions and drive impactful and rapid change, connecting you to expertise, networks, facilities and funding opportunities
We provide a range of services to help you secure funding grants and deliver a successful project from start to finish. Our expertise ranges from bid writing and consortium building, through to project management and access to our facilities. Our team is here to support you and your business with your next agri-tech solution.
Read on to find out about current funding opportunities to help accelerate your business’ aspirations:
Funding Opportunity: Innovate UK Business Growth RTO Access Programme
Innovative, ambitious businesses can benefit from the facilities and expertise provided by Catapults and Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs) through Innovate UK Business Growth. Applicants with a suitable project who are currently benefiting from the growth advisory support can be offered a grant for 100% of eligible costs to a maximum of £15,000. Discover More.
Funding Opportunity: Feasibility Funding: IBioIC
Deadline: 3 June 2024
IBioIC’s Feasibility funding provides the industry with the opportunity to tap into the expertise of Scotland’s academics to assist with a biotech-focused proof-of-concept study. These collaborative projects should build evidence and data to support future funding applications for larger-scale work. Learn more.
Funding Opportunity: Digital Dairy Chain: CR&D and Growth
Deadline: 19 June 2024.
This competition will see significant investment in innovation projects with a focus on improving productivity and sustainability in advanced, high-value dairy production. Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Digital Dairy Chain to invest in projects, within the region of Cumbria, South and West Scotland. Explore this funding opportunity
Funding Opportunity: Innovate UK Eastern England Agri-Tech and Food-Tech Launchpad
Coming Spring 2024.
Launchpads provide dedicated investments to build and grow SME innovation clusters supporting local and national growth and levelling up, with funding of up to £7.5m. Impact must be in the East of England but partners may be based anywhere in UK.
Funding Opportunity: Farming Innovation Programme – Farming Futures R&D – nutrient management
Coming Spring 2024 and Autumn 2024.
Grants provide funding for businesses and researchers to work on longer-term innovation focussing on nutrient management. A share of up to £25 million will be delivered across two competition rounds.
Funding Opportunity: Farming Innovation Programme Fund: Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT)
Coming Summer 2024
Focused on providing groups of farmers, growers and foresters in England with support to conduct on-farm experiments and trials. To help drive practical research, new technologies and processes to the practical domain. A total of £45 million funding will be available until 2028/29.
If you have any questions about the above funding opportunities or want to find out how we can make your ambitions a reality, get in touch at: info@ukagritechcentre.com.