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Transforming Food Production BriefingProductive and sustainable crop and ruminant agricultural systems

29th August 2018Birmingham

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Productive and sustainable crop and ruminant agricultural systemsIntroduction to the briefing event

Dr David TelfordKnowledge Transfer Manager (AgriFood), KTN

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The Knowledge Transfer Network

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Event overview

1) Better understand competition objectives, scope and rules 2) Opportunities to network and develop ideas and partnerships for

the competition

‒ Short delegate pitches‒ Networking and consortia building sessions‒ Presentations about technology adoption, writing a successful

application, and how the Agri-Tech Centres can helpOverall – Help you be successful!

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Event overview

‒ Short presentations• Presenters – 3 minutes max!

• Audience – use networking sessions for questions

‒ Finding people• See delegate list for capabilities offered/requested

• Ask a KTN staff member

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Transforming Food ProductionOverview and competition scope

Calum MurrayHead of AgriFood, Innovate UK

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Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund:Transforming Food ProductionCR&D Competition 1Productive and sustainable crop and ruminant agricultural systems

Calum Murray, Interim Challenge Co-Director


• Builds on the UK’s world-class research base and delivers the science that business needs to transform existing industries and create new ones

• Accelerates commercial exploitation of the most exciting technologies the UK has to offer the world to ensure that scientific investment truly delivers economic impact, jobs and growth right across the country

• Programmes delivered by the fund will be industry-led and powered by multi-disciplinary research and business-academic collaboration

• Delivered by Innovate UK and Research Councils UK and eventually UK Research and Innovation.

ISCF Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund


Globally we need to produce food in ways that are significantly more efficient, resilient and sustainable

The UK Agriculture Sector

• Supports 3.9m jobs, utilises 71% of land and has GVA of £112bn

• Productivity lags behind that of international competitors

and varies significantly across the UK

• Innovation and productivity have been stifled by direct payments

• Innovation is critical to ensure a competitive and

prosperous sector

Transforming Food Production

We need to realise the biological

potential while minimising our environmental

footprint

N20 variation - Source: The Royal Society , Jan 2018


Challenge

To transform food production systems so that by 2030 UK agricultural productivity is market leading and environmental impacts

have reduced by 40%, waste across food supply chains is minimised and the UK is a leading exporter of data-driven solutions

supporting food production.


By 2030 food production across the UK will be among the most productive, innovative, connected, resilient and

sustainable in the world.

Our Vision

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In farmed animal systems:

• Precision approaches will routinely be used for

• early detection and treatment of disease

• individualised nutrition

• reproduction strategies

• Real-time data collection and analyses across supply chains will be ensuring:

• production, welfare, quality and value are maximised

• GHG emissions are minimised

• breeds optimally matched to their environment

• More product information will be provided for consumers

What will the Future of Farming Look Like?

The internet of sheep: prototype sensors on the animals’ backs monitor location; accelerometer data can also be used to infer

behaviour. Copyright: University of Lancaster/G. Blai


In the crop sector:

• Real time monitoring will be standard, enabling highly automated production systems that:

• optimise energy, water, nutrients, crop protection products and labour

• enable dual cropping and inter-row production to increase output

• enhance soil quality, biodiversity and natural capital

• Supply chains will be connected, minimising waste, building resilience & maximising saleable yield

• Advanced breeding technologies used to achieve sustainability, quality and production goals

What will the Future of Farming Look Like?

Computer scanning in different wavelengths Aspects of plant health, such as pest damage, that

human eyes miss. Copyright: The University of Manchester/University of Bonn


What will the Future of Farming Look Like?Novel food production systems, including urban and peri-urban systems, will be producing high value crops, securing increased market share through:

• Widespread use of hydro, aqua aero-ponics, underground and point of sale production

• Protected environments will be highly efficient, minimising energy use, capturing and re-using water and co-located with distribution hubs

• Diversification of farmed species and cultured foods


Is to connect people, ideas and funding to catalyse the development and adoption of disruptive data-driven solutions across agri-food supply chain.

Our Mission

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Transforming Food Production: Objectives• Create disruptive data-driven solutions to drive

primary agricultural productivity and reduce environmental impacts

• Embed adoption of precision approaches to bridge the productivity gap

• Establish novel high value production systems

• Strengthen connections between researchers and practitioners

• Drive Growth in UK Companies and develop export opportunities

IoT device installation in Agriculture is forecast to increase at the rate of 20% compound annual growth by 2024

C o p y r ig h t : H a r p e r A d a m s / A G C O


Feasibility of novel approaches proven

Opportunities for large scale demonstration

identified

InternationalBuilding

opportunity in partnership

and driving export growth

Industry-led Collaborative R&DCreating disruptive solutions and high

value production system

DemonstrationEmbedding adoption of precision

approaches to bridge the productivity gap

Community of practiceStrengthening connections between research

and practice and enabling adoption

Transforming Food Production: Funding

Total funding:18/19 – 22/23£90M

Significant private sector co-investment required


£50 million total fund

Competition 1: £20 millionProductive and sustainable crop and ruminant agricultural systems.

Competition 2: £X million tbc

Competition 3: £X million tbc

Industry-led Collaborative R&D

R o t h a m s t e d R e s e a r c h


“Drive productivity and sustainability in crop and ruminant production systems”.

Productive and Sustainable Crop and Ruminant Agricultural Systems Aim:


Competition Core


Transforming Food Production GoalsProjects must support the overall Industrial

Strategy Challenge Fund’s ‘transforming

food production’ goals:

• boost the efficiency and productivity of

UK agricultural systems

• embed sustainable food production with

improved environmental impacts (e.g.

enhancing biodiversity, soil, water and

air quality, and reducing emissions,

pollution and waste)

• create growth and increase exports of

agricultural technologies


Project Requirements…Project must also:

• have a clear route to market for technologies and solutions

• develop an optimised prototype(s) that can be demonstrated within the production system or supply chain by the end of the project


Encouraging:We are particularly encouraging applications that:

• bring new businesses and technologies into the UK precision agriculture sector

• include farmer or grower involvement and/or endorsement


Out of Scope…

• monogastric livestock and aquaculture projects,• forestry• non-food crops• wild capture fisheries• amenity or ornamental horticulture• equine


Productive and sustainable crop and ruminant agricultural systemsCompetition details

Joe Lyford and Julie BrownInnovate UK

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Productive and sustainable crop and ruminant agricultural systems competition

Applicant Briefing29th August 2018


Eligibility Criteria

Application process – the Innovation Funding Service• Project details

• Application questionsApplication Finances

• Project costs

• Academic partnersSubmitting your application

AssessmentProject set-up for successful applicantsQ&A

Agenda


Eligibility Criteria


Project Eligibility

To lead a project you must:

ü be a UK based SME if your project costs are under £100,000ü be a UK based business of any size if your project costs are

over £100,000

ü Projects under £100,000 can be single applicant or collaborativeü Consortiums must involve at least one UK SME

ü You must carry out your project in the UKü Exploit the results anywhere in the world

Project costProductivity solutions total project costs up to £2 millionSupply chain solutions total project costs up to £5 million

Project length Projects must start by 1 April 2019, end by 31 March 2022 and can last up to 36 months.

Eligibility criteria


• The aim of our State Aid scheme is to:• optimise the level of funding to business and• recognise the importance of research base to project

• At least 70% of total eligible project costs must be incurred by business

• The maximum level (30% of project costs) is shared by all research organisations in the project

In all collaborative projects there must be:

• at least two organisations claiming grant within the application (including the lead)• a business led consortium, which may involve both business and the research base and• evidence of effective collaboration

• we would expect to see the structure and rationale of the collaboration described in the application.

Participation and collaboration rules


Making more than one application and resubmissions

• Any one business may be involved in up to 3 applications to this competition, but can only be the lead partner in one application

• An academic institution or RTO cannot lead on an application but can be a collaborator in any number of applications.

• If an application is unsuccessful, you can use the feedback received to reapply for the same project into either another round of this competition or another competition. A project proposal can only be submitted twice


Other Innovate UK projects

• If you have an outstanding final claim and Independent Accountant Report (IAR) on any live Innovate UK project, you will not be eligible to apply for grant funding in this competition, as a lead or a partner organisation.

• If you applied to a previous competition as the lead or sole company and were awarded funding by Innovate UK, but did not make a substantial effort to exploit that award, we will award no more funding to you.


Timeline Dates

Competition Opens 20 August 2018

Briefing Event 29 August 2018

Submission Deadline 24 October 2018

Applicants informed 7 December 2018

Key Dates


How to apply using the Innovation Funding Service (IFS)


Search for a funding competition and review criteria


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Invite participants


üSpell check using your web browser

online guidance

assign the question to a collaborator

Formatting for your content

Word count

Answering a question


The application form

Split into 3 Sections:

- Project Details- Application Questions- Your Finances


Application processProject details


Project Details (Section 1)• Application Details

- Title, Timescales, Research Category, Innovation Area & Resubmission (Y/N)

• Project Summary- Short summary and objectives of the project including what is innovative about it

• Public Description - Description of your project which will be published if you are successful

• Scope- How does your project align with the scope of this competition?- If your project is not in scope, it will be ineligible for funding and not sent for assessment.


Application process

Competition Questions


Application formQuestion 1 Need or challenge

Question 2 Approach and innovation

Question 3 Team and resources

Question 4 Market awareness

Question 5 Outcomes and route to market

Question 6 Wider impacts

Question 7 Project management

Question 8 Risks

Question 9 Added value

Question 10 Costs and value for money

Question 11 Project Types

Appendix Q3

Appendix Q7

Appendix Q8

Appendix Q2

Application Questions (Section 2)

Detailed Guidance Available on IFS


Application Finances


Finances (Section 3)


Your project costs - review


Finances – your organisation


What we ask you:• Organisation size• Date of last financial year• Financial overview• Annual turnover• Annual profits• Annual export• R&D spend

• No. full time employees


Finances – your funding


Funding dependent upon type of organisationOrganisation /

Type of Activity Industrial Research Notes

Business(economic activity) Micro/Small – 70%

Medium – 60% Large – 50%

Research Organisation(non-economic activity)

Universities – 100% (80%of Full Economic Costs)

Other research organisations can claim 100% of their project costs – see note:

Other research organisations must:• be non-profit distributing and• disseminate the project results &• explain in the application form how this will be done

Public Sector Organisation or Charity(non-economic activity)

100% of eligible costs Must be:• Be performing research activity &• disseminate project results & explain in the application form how

this will be done• ensure that the eligible costs do not include work / costs already funded

from other public sector bodies


Worked example – £500k total cost project:Project costs for 5 partners (2 SME, 1 University, a Catapult and 1 large), doing industrial research.

Consortium example

Total Eligible Project Costs

Maximum % of eligible costs which may be claimed as a

grantInnovate UK

GrantProject

ContributionBusiness Medium £130,000 60% £78,000 £52,000Business Medium £90,000 60% £54,000 £36,000Business Large £130,000 50% £65,000 £65,000

University HEI (80% FEC) £75,000 100% £75,000 nil**Catapult RTO £75,000 100% £75,000 nil

Total £500,000 £347,000 £153,000** 20% FEC not to be shown as a contribution

Research Base Costs £150,000Research base % of Total Eligible costs (cannot exceed 30%) 30.00%


Funding

• Each organisation must accept the grant terms and conditions

• The lead applicant will not be able to submit the application without all organisations accepting the grant Ts and Cs.


Other public sector funding


Finances overview

Please ensure your total costs are within the funding rules for the competition


Non-grant claiming partnersIf a partner wishes to collaborate but does not wish to claim a grant:

• Lead must invite partner to join the application• Partner must select “not requesting funding” option in finances

section of IFS

• Partner must complete “Your project costs” section to provide value of their contribution

• Partner will not be named in the Grant Offer Letter if your project is successful


Academic Partners


Why Je-S?• We use the Research Councils’ Joint Electronic Submission System (Je-

S) to collect academic finances

• The Je-S system automates the collection of Full Economic Costs (FEC) based costs from academic partners and tells them exactly what

numbers should be used in the application form for their costs

• Also to collect project finance details from non-HEIs (e.g. RTOs) that are claiming they are carrying out academic quality work and want to be funded on an FEC basis

• Using Je-S means that Innovate UK follows standard Research Council guidelines on funding universities and enables Research Councils to easily co-fund Innovate UK projects



• Enter the TSB reference number here

• Enter the TSB Contribution column figures from your J-eS output document into the project costs section of the application

• Upload the Je-S with council status form as a PDF at the bottom of the screen

Project costs – academic partners


Normal Je-S application elements

• Not just the financials• E.g. Justification of resources• E.g Pathways to impact

• Full details on the Je-S system• Queries about Je-S via the Je-S Helpdesk

• [email protected]• 01793 444164

mailto:[email protected]


Submitting your application


Project cost summary

All organisations can see a summary of project costs


Checking your finances are complete

IFS checks• all organisations have

marked their finances as complete

• research organisation participation is no greater than 30% of the total project costs


Review application before submission

IFS will check your application is completeAll questions must be “marked as complete”

Leave plenty of time to validate your submission

Deadlines are absolute


Submitting your application


Submit your application early!


Application submitted


Your dashboard


Assessment


Application AssessmentAll applications are assessed by independent assessors drawn from

industry and academia

What do they look for?• Clear and concise answers

• The right amount of information• Not too much detail

• No assumptions • Quantification and justification• A proposal that presents a viable opportunity for growth, a level of innovation that

necessitates public sector investment and has the right team and approach to be successful

Keep your assessors engaged and interested in your proposal. You want them to be fascinated and excited by your idea!


Assessor feedback


Project setup for successful applicants


IFS for successful applicants

Project Set up:• 7 steps to complete• Applicable to all grant claiming

partners• Must be completed within 30 days• Projects must start within 90

days or funding may be withdrawn

• Project change requests cannot be submitted before the project starts


Collaboration Agreement

• Original agreement signed by all participants

• Must be in place before the first claim• Key Features:

• Who is in the Consortium?• What are the aims, and how is the work divided up?• Ownership of IPR

• Management of consortium

Negotiating a Collaboration Agreement can be complex and time consuming. Start work on this at an early stage in the process.


Grant claims and payments

• All grants are claimable quarterly in arrears• Claims can only be made for costs incurred and paid between the project start and end

dates• Claims may be subject to an independent audit (including all academic partners)

according to grant size• Claims are only paid once quarterly reporting and necessary audits are complete• Projects over 6 months are monitored on a quarterly basis including a visit from the

appointed Monitoring Officer. Anything outside of this will be discussed on a case by case basis.

• The monitoring will be carried out against a detailed project plan and financial forecast


Q&A – Application process and finances


Contact us:

Customer Support Services: 0300 321 4357 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5:30pm)

[email protected]

Knowledge Transfer Network:

https://ktn.innovateuk.org

Innovate UK:https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk

mailto:[email protected]

https://ktn.innovateuk.org/

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk


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