The Division for Surroundings, Meals and Rural Affairs (Defra) will make investments as much as £2 million for on-farms trials and farm experiment initiatives.
This funding is a part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme, delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.
The intention of this competitors is to help progressive, on-farm trials or experiments to check concepts or options and reveal that they are going to handle main on-farm or rapid submit farmgate challenges or alternatives.
Grants out there
ADOPT has two several types of grants out there relying on the wants of the grant applicant:
- A small Assist Grant to entry skilled help from an business knowledgeable to assist develop an software to the Full ADOPT Grant. These small Assist Grants are meant for candidates who’re much less acquainted with Innovate UK methods. You don’t have to use for a Assist Grant with a view to apply for a Full Grant. The subsequent spherical closes on eleventh June 2025.
- A Full ADOPT Grant will help collaborative farmer-led, on farm trials or experiments. The subsequent spherical closes on 25 June 2025.
Innovate UK Enterprise Join will likely be internet hosting the ADOPT Mission Facilitator database. This can embrace the names of people who might help farmers flip concepts into a possible funding alternative and help within the software submission for ADOPT. Farmers, growers and foresters will have the ability to request an inventory of registered facilitators from Innovate UK Enterprise Join.
What will likely be funded
Your mission should have the potential to considerably enhance agriculture, horticulture, and/or agro-forestry in a number of of the next areas:
- productiveness
- resilience
- sustainability and development in direction of web zero farming
Your mission should deal with testing and trialling concepts or options which might be both new or not but broadly used.
Your proposal should reveal to different English farmers, growers or foresters how the thought or answer will likely be of profit to them.
Initiatives ought to fall below the class of business reasearch. This implies deliberate analysis or important investigation to realize new information and abilities. This ought to be for the aim of product growth, processes or providers that result in an enchancment in present merchandise, processes or providers. It may possibly embrace the creation of element elements to advanced methods and will embrace prototypes in a laboratory or setting with simulated interfaces to present methods, notably for generic know-how validation.
To guide a mission you should be an energetic farming, rising or forestry enterprise of any measurement primarily based in England. it’s essential to
- embrace open innovation rules and be keen to share outcomes with different farmers, growers or foresters
- have a Mission Facilitator as a part of the mission crew who’s listed within the ADOPT Innovate UK Enterprise Join database
Initiatives that won’t be funded
- don’t profit farmers, growers or foresters in England
- are primarily based on equine methods
- contain wild caught fisheries
- are for the manufacturing of crops or vegetation for medicinal or pharmaceutical use
- are primarily based on funded crop selection plot trials
- are primarily based on present demonstration trials or initiatives
- embrace aquaculture, similar to algae and seaweed, for human consumption
- fermentation methods for micro organism, yeast or fungi or cultivated meat
The small print and the best way to apply
Your mission’s whole prices should be between £50,000 and £100,000. A minimal of fifty% of the overall grant quantity requested by farmers, growers and foresters should be allotted to farmers, growers or foresters geographically primarily based in England. Initiatives will likely be funded at 50-80% depeding on enterprise sort and measurement.
The ADOPT programme will run numerous steady competitions over the monetary 12 months. Every subsequent spherical’s opening date will likely be added to this web page.
The ADOPT Assist Hub, run by ADAS, have been commissioned to work on ADOPT and so they can help candidates and funded initiatives all through their journey.
To see full eligibility and scope standards, entry details about the mission facilitator help grant, and to use, please go to the Innovation Funding Service. The subsequent spherical closes on twenty fifth June 2025 at 11am, with the following spherical opening on twenty sixth June. It’s anticipated that rounds will proceed on a rolling foundation till 2027.
You’ll be able to see different open funding calls in our Funding Finder.
