Dates
Competition closes: 8 May 2024, 11am
Applicants notified: 24 June 2024
Scope – proposals must focus on one or more of the following
- functional and novel foods to support healthy ageing across the life course.
- biofortification as an approach to target delivery of bioactive compounds.
- probiotics and prebiotics to maintain or promote a gut microbiome and metabolome that could improve health.
Your project should consider:
- sustainability in the context of environmental challenges e.g., climate change and resource scarcity.
- how to minimise negative effects such as pollution, food loss and waste.
Specific themes – projects are encouraged that
- have the potential to improve nutrition in commonly eaten products, including across the convenience and fast-food sectors as well as foods procured by the public sector, e.g., in schools and hospitals.
- have the potential to have a positive impact on obesity and malnutrition.
- address nutrition and health challenges affecting particular demographic groups.
- develop innovations that are affordable and accessible to all.
- take into account consumer choices and how these are made.
- make use of the interplay between food components and human physiology.
Projects that will not be funded
- focussed on foods that are not for human consumption, for example pet food.
- not sustainable in the context of environmental challenges.
Eligibilty
- Subsidy Control and State Aid funding rules apply.
- Must be led by a UK registered business or research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.
- Consortium must include at least one business and one research organisation, as a minimum.
- The lead applicant and partners must be members of a Diet and Health Open Innovation Research Club (OIRC) hub.
- 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 project costs
Funding rates
- Total eligible project costs £100K-£250K. Project duration 9-18 months.
| Project maturity (up to but not including commercialisation) | |
| Organisation size | Early stage feasibility studies (TRL 2-3) |
| Micro/small business | <70% |
| Medium sized business | <60% |
| Large business | <50% |
Research organisations in your consortium can share up to 50% of the UK total eligible project costs.
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 or fill out the contact form below.
