Dates:
- Competition closes: Wednesday 19 June 2024 11:00am
- Competition opens: Tuesday 7 May 2024
- Project start date/ end date & duration: start 1 October 2024 /end 31 December 2026, lasts from 6 to 24 months
- Applicants notified: 2 August 2024
Scope
Project must support collaborative business focussed innovation in Cumbria, South and West Scotland / support the transition to net zero and deliver improved productivity and sustainability in advanced and high value dairy production and manufacturing.
- Portfolio approach: to fund a variety of projects across different technologies, markets, technological maturities and research categories.
- Following the Innovate UK assessment, all fundable applications will be considered by a panel of independent advisors. The panel will be convened by the Digital Dairy Chain project and chaired independently.
Specific Themes
- novel and high value products from dairy systems / value addition in the dairy supply chain
- decarbonising dairy production and manufacturing / waste minimisation and resource recirculation
- reduced environmental impact and increased sustainability
- sensor development and digitisation to improve productivity, welfare of staff and animals, and product quality including nutritional characteristics
Projects that will not be funded
- do not demonstrate potential to positively impact on the economy of Cumbria, South or West Scotland
- deal with plant-based alternatives to milk
- mainly install currently available technologies and involve minimal innovation
- only involve product testing of agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, feeds or additives
- dependent on export performance / dependent on domestic inputs usage
Eligibility
- carry out at least 75% of its project work in Cumbria, South or West Scotland
- intend to exploit the results in Cumbria, South or West Scotland
Funding Rates
- Total eligible project costs between £25,000 and £250,000 (£1.1M pot).
| Project maturity (up to but not including commercialisation) | |
| Organisation size | Industrial Research (TRL3-5) |
| 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.
