Deadline: 31-May-23
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million for business focussed innovation in advanced and high value dairy production and manufacturing. This funding is from Digital Dairy Chain for Cumbria, South and West Scotland.
The aim of this competition is to support business focussed innovation in Cumbria, South and West Scotland. This is to support the transition to net zero and deliver improved productivity and sustainability in advanced and high value dairy production and manufacturing.
Specific Themes
- Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
- novel and high value products from dairy systems
- decarbonising dairy production and manufacturing
- waste minimisation and resource recirculation
- reduced environmental impact and increased sustainability, for example biodiversity, soil, air and water quality
- sensor development and digitisation to improve productivity, welfare of staff and animals, and product quality including nutritional characteristics
- value addition in the dairy supply chain
Funding Information
- Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £50,000 and £350,000.
- Your project must:
- have a total grant funding request between £50,000 and £350,000
- start from 1 October 2023
- end by 31 December 2025
- last between 6 and 24 months
- 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
Eligibility Criteria
- Lead organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- be either a UK registered business of any size or a UK farming business of any size
- be able to evidence that you are an established business, including sole traders and partnerships
- have a UK bank account
- be based in Cumbria, South or West Scotland or carry out significant economic activity in that region
- collaborate with other UK registered organisations
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be a UK based farmer or one of the following UK registered:
- business of any size
- academic institution
- charity
- not for profit
- public sector organisation
- research and technology organisation (RTO)
- Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
- To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.
- Collaborations with Digital Dairy Chain research organisations are encouraged. These organisations are:
- Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)
- University of Strathclyde
- University of the West of Scotland
- CENSIS, part of the University of Glasgow
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be a UK based farmer or one of the following UK registered:
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that:
- 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
- They cannot fund projects that are:
- dependent on export performance, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country
- dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product
For more information, visit Innovate UK.
