Dates:
Competition closes: 11 December 2024, 11am
Applicants notified: 7 February 2025
Scope – Projects must demonstrate:
- more innovation activity or value creation in the cluster or outside the Greater South East of England, during and after the project
- more engagement in the innovation cluster, during and after the project
- closer alignment to this competition’s scope and specific themes
- Specific Themes – non-exhaustive
- Productivity or nutritional content: enhancing yields and other aspects of productivity of primary crops and feedstocks, livestock or aquaculture, resource efficiency, including novel approaches for precision farming, circular economy or biotechnologies, excluding biochar, enhancing the nutritional content of produce
- Food processing or markets: novel foods that promote safe, healthy and nutritious diets, food manufacturing and processing, packaging, and safety, adapting produce to create new market opportunities, supply chain resilience and responsiveness; mitigating risks, interruptions or disruptions
- Sustainability or biodiversity: livestock health, approaches that reduce emissions, food loss and waste, regenerative approaches that could lower biodiversity loss or mitigate against resource scarcity
Projects we will not fund
- involve the production, processing or servicing of biochar
- are aimed solely at equine markets
- involve wild caught fisheries
- involve primary production in fishery and aquaculture, or in agriculture
- are not allowed under De minimis regulation restrictions
- are not eligible to receive Minimal Financial Assistance
- are dependent on export performance, for example, giving an award to a baker on the condition that they export a certain quantity of bread to another country
- are dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example, if we give an award to a baker on the condition that they use 50% UK flour in their product
Eligibility
- Total grant request between £25K and £100K for projects lasting between 6 and 12 months.
- Subsidy Control and EC State Aid funding rules apply
- Project must be led by a UK SME active or growing within the agri-tech and food technology cluster in Mid and North Wales.
- Single applicant projects only.
- R&D work must be carried out in the UK and project results exploited from UK.
- Subcontractors must be UK based, with costs justified and appropriate to the total costs.
Funding Rates
- Projects funded at 100% total project costs up to £100K. If your grant funding request exceeds the £100,000 maximum then your application will be made ineligible. Your project costs can be higher than your grant funding request.
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.
For further information or to discuss a project idea please contact PNO Consultants
0161 488 3488 | info.uk@pnoconsultants.com | https://www.pnoconsultants.com/uk/
