Efficiency for Access invites organizations to apply for the fourth call of the Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund: Agritech Call.
The Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund will make over £1.3million available to organizations to develop clean energy agricultural technologies and appliances. Funding is being provided by UK aid via the Transforming Energy Access platform, and the IKEA Foundation. Since 2018 the fund has provided over £5million of grant funding, supporting 38 R&D projects to accelerate innovation and address important barriers to access in the off- and weak grid appliances sector.
Under this Efficiency for Acces Agritech call, support will be provided to develop agricultural technologies, sometimes known as agri-technologies that are high performing, energy efficient appliances. These appliance technologies will increase post-harvest resilience and productivity, supporting post-harvest management including harvesting, handling, storage, processing, and transportation, within food systems in horticulture, dairy, fishing and livestock.
Efficiency for Access Agritech Scope
To be in scope for this call, Your R&D projects must:
- Develop or improve an innovative electrical appliance for use in off- and/or weak grid settings; AND
- Improve post-harvest resilience and productivity of food systems, while reducing their environmental impact. Improved resilience and productivity can be achieved in any of the following ways: ensuring and increasing incomes, expanding access to markets, reducing waste and loss, and improving the operations, service and maintenance of essential equipment within one or more value chains of a food system.
Efficiency for Access Agritech Benefits
- Grants are available from £50,000 to £300,000. Over £1.3 million in funding has been made available for this call.
Eligibility
The minimum eligibility criteria are:
- Applicants must be a legally registered and physically established business, academic organisation, non-profit, public sector organisation, or research and technology organisation based in any country in the world. Applicants for funding may also form partnerships (such as between academics and businesses or between entrepreneurs and established businesses). However, the lead partner will assume responsibility for the project and will be the recipient of the grant funding.
- Your application must demonstrate outcomes linked to both the programme’s overall objective (of accelerating the availability, affordability, efficiency and performance of a range of Low Energy Inclusive Appliances particularly suited to developing country contexts) and the R&D scope for this call (as detailed in the Scope section).
- Applicants must demonstrate sufficient match funding for project costs (as outlined in the Funding section).
- Applicants must demonstrate a track record in research and innovation, and/or provide strong evidence of your capacity to successfully implement the R&D project.
- Applicants must be compliant with fundamental in-country and international human rights, labour standards, and environmental management laws. Applicants must not be involved in any act of terrorism or support terrorist activities.
- Applicants must allow regular due diligence.
How to Apply
The application for Efficiency for Access Agritech funding will close on 17 January 2024.
Click here to apply.
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