Scoping Projects for Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnerships: UK-Brazil-Africa
Up to £30k per project is available for exploratory Scoping Projects to build trilateral networks between the UK, Brazil and Africa (Ghana and Nigeria) for climate-smart agriculture for sustainable food production systems.
Opportunity Details
When
Registration Opens
19/08/2024
Registration Closes
02/10/2024
Award
UK academic institutions or research and technology organisations (RTOs) can apply for up to £30,000 to deliver a Scoping Project to build trilateral networks between innovators and stakeholders in the UK, Brazil and Africa (Ghana and Nigeria).
Organisation
Innovate UK
Innovate UK Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership: UK-Brazil-Africa brings together innovative people and organisations to promote climate-smart agriculture in Africa.
This pilot programme will build collaborations and enable knowledge sharing between the UK, Brazil and Africa (Ghana and Nigeria) to develop technologies and practices that promote climate-smart agriculture in Ghana and Nigeria.
In the first competition of this programme up to £300,000 of total funding (up to £30,000 per project) is available for exploratory Scoping Projects.
Scoping Projects will build trilateral networks between the UK, Brazil and Africa (Ghana and Nigeria) and identify opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing to promote climate-smart agriculture for sustainable food production systems in Ghana and Nigeria.
The trilateral partnerships identified in Scoping Projects will accelerate the development, adoption and scaling of technologies and practices that promote climate-smart agriculture for sustainable food production systems in Ghana and Nigeria.
This Scoping Projects competition is the first activity of Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership: UK-Brazil-Africa, which will offer future opportunities for innovation projects in 2025 and beyond.
These three-month long projects will start on 1 December 2024.
Projects must finish by 28 February 2025.
What is a Scoping Project?
The trilateral partnerships identified in Scoping Projects will accelerate the development, testing, adoption and scaling of technologies and practices that promote climate-smart agriculture for sustainable food production systems in Ghana and Nigeria.
Each Scoping Project will focus on a specific topic area identified as a priority for international collaboration.
There will be two core outputs of each Scoping Project:
- A public facing report to:
- identify and outline challenges, barriers and technology gaps associated with a specific topic area in both Ghana and Nigeria
- explore and assess the relevant research, innovations, technologies and practices in the UK, Brazil, Ghana and Nigeria to identify expertise and knowledge in the specific topic area
- identify opportunities to collaboratively transfer, develop, commercialise, adopt and scale-out technologies and practices to promote climate-smart agriculture in Ghana and Nigeria.
- Networking activities to:
- build a diverse network of stakeholders across the UK, Brazil and Ghana and Nigeria to develop productive research and innovation partnerships and relationships
- facilitate the development of consortia for future collaborative projects.
Who can apply for a Scoping Project?
To lead a project your organisation must be a UK-based academic institution or research and technology organisation (RTO): see here for a list of eligible RTOs.
Projects can have a maximum of two partners (the lead and a partner organisation). Partner organisations must be a UK-based academic institution or research and technology organisation (RTO).
Further Information
Set up a 1-1 call to discuss your idea or ask any questions
Email any questions to: agripartnership@iuk.ktn-uk.org
How to apply
Please read the privacy notice before applying.
Apply for a Scoping Project on Good Grants using the button below.
Applications must be submitted by 11am BST on the 2 October 2024.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Ultimately the partnerships built through the Scoping Projects will be well placed to deliver research or innovation projects. Partnerships would be eligible to apply for grant funding through a future Innovation Award competition (expected to be announced in 2025).
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You don’t need a partner to apply with, but if pairing up with another UK university or research technology organisation brings in additional expertise or networks to your project team and so strengthens your application this would be positive.
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You don’t need to have connections with all relevant stakeholders already but your application should demonstrate your strategy to connect with these. The networking activities can benefit your organisation but should also catalyse and facilitate relationship building between other stakeholders.
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The application requires a project lead (i.e. a named individual staff member) to be named but the delivery team can be made up of multiple team members bringing different experience into the project and this would definitely strengthen the application. Please do refer to the expertise and skills held by different members of the team in the team question. The cost/time of the team working on the project will need to be evidenced with timesheets from the university / partner HEI so this would be the only constraint. No external subcontracting is allowed.
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If you are a UK academic working on pests and diseases and have done some previous work on cocoa, you might select the topic of ‘Cocoa’ as your focus. A suitable application (i.e. not too broad, not too specific) would bring together stakeholders from all regions (UK AND Brazil AND Ghana AND Nigeria) to explore what research and innovations are ongoing within cocoa supply chains, including with regard to the challenge of pests and diseases.
In your application you will demonstrate how your expertise, experience, and the activities you plan to do within your Scoping Project, will enable you to build a stakeholder network and identify opportunities for innovation within the cocoa supply chain.
During your Scoping Project you will broadly explore the challenges faced in Ghana and Nigeria regarding cocoa production, with a view to identifying innovations and collaborations which could lead to transformative change within the cocoa supply chain in Ghana and Nigeria. You will write up the information you find out as a public facing report to enable external stakeholders to learn more about the topic and to allow them to understand how their research or innovations may support in providing a solution.
During your Scoping Project you will identify and speak with a range of stakeholders across each of the countries, bringing them together to connect and share ideas. In doing this you will identify potential opportunities for innovations or research to be shared between countries and partners, or areas for new collaborative work to be undertaken in the future.
Related programme
Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership
Innovate UK Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership: UK-Brazil-Africa brings together innovative people and organisations to promote climate-smart agriculture in Africa.