Deadline: 15-Jul-22
The Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) and the New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries are inviting eligible Irish and New Zealand Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) to submit joint research proposals under the “2022 Joint Call for Research Proposals on strategies, technologies and novel systems to reduce and account for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture ruminant production systems”.
The call contributes to the overall objectives of the Joint Research Initiative to enhance bilateral collaborative research between Ireland and New Zealand in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction in pasture-based ruminant production systems.
The aims of the 2022 Joint Call is to enable research on climate mitigation from agriculture ruminant, pasture-based livestock production systems; and to strengthen and improve cooperation and collaborations between the two research communities, and to connect research partners with different but complementary scientific and technological expertise to maximize impact.
Joint proposals submitted to the Call should advance the body of knowledge towards large scale applicable practices and technologies in key areas that include rumen microbiology, low emission ruminants, and inventory improvement, which taken together offer significant potential for greenhouse gas emissions reduction and the sequestration of atmospheric carbon.
Topics
Proposals submitted to the Call must address one of the three following topics:
- Topic 1. Rumen microbiology to support the development of ruminant GHG mitigation technologies
- Topic 2. Identification and development of technologies for the selection of low emitting ruminant livestock
- Topic 3. Refinement of agricultural GHG emissions inventories through the development of emission factors for nitrous oxide and carbon
Funding Information
A maximum total funding amount of €6m has been allocated to this Call, which is intended to be allocated in full, subject to the final joint selection list of research projects following evaluation.
The maximum funding budgets allocated to the Joint Call;
- New Zealand: Total €3m (Max. Funding Request for per project €1,000,000)
- Ireland: Total €3m (Max. Funding Request for per project €1,000,000)
Eligibility Criteria
- The application must be written in English.
- All currency values must be in euro (€)
- Eligible consortia will consist of a minimum of 2 independent entities seeking funding from both Funding Participants in the Joint Call; there is no upper limit of eligible consortium size – consortia can involve as many partners as necessary to achieve the project goals.
- Consortia must supplement a project lead in each jurisdiction, Ireland and New Zealand. National project leads will have responsibility for ensuring proposals meet national funding regulations and will be responsible for periodic reporting to their respective funding bodies.
- Applicants who are not eligible for funding by their national funding body or applicants from countries not participating in the Call are welcome to be partners in a research consortium on a self-financing basis, they cannot be coordinators and are not counted for in terms of the required minimum number of partners.
- The maximum duration of a project is 48 months.
- The requested total funding cannot exceed €2M per proposal,
- Total eligible budget per country/region must not exceed the maximum available to applicants under respective National Funding Regulations
- Proposals should seek, in so far as is practical, for an equal distribution of the total requested funding (50:50) between Ireland and New Zealand applicants. However, in situations where this is not entirely feasible, applicants should note that the maximum proportion of the overall budget claimed by either Ireland or New Zealand may not exceed 70% of the total eligible project budget in order to achieve balanced partnerships and ensure that responsibility and risks are shared.
- The scope of the research in the application must address one of the Call Topics and is limited to experimental research. Proposals are limited to a single topic only and must focus on the specific criteria described under that topic.
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