Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Funding details

Call : Call for transnational, collaborative, inter-/transdisciplinary research projects on ICT-enabled agri-food systems

Country specific: Funding is restricted to organisations from Germany

Funding: €1000,000

Conditions full:

Eligibility criteria:

BMEL funding is based on §§ 23 and 44 BHO (Bundeshaushaltsordnung) and associated administrative regulations. The main items are the following:

• The funding regulations, follow-up and reporting of publicly funded projects are regulated according to NABF (Nebenbestimmungen des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung für Zuwendungen zur Projektförderung auf Ausgabenbasis) and NKBF-2017 (Nebenbestimmungen des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung für Zuwendungen zur Projektförderung auf Kostenbasis an Unternehmen der gewerblichen Wirtschaft für Forschungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben).
• Funding will be awarded as non-repayable project grant.

Eligible applicants are universities, universities of applied sciences, non-university research institutions, SMEs domiciled in Germany as well as Federal and State institutions with research tasks. Research institutions which are jointly funded by the Federal Government and the ‘Länder’ may only be granted project funding under certain conditions and only for project-related expenditures in addition to their basic funding.

National/regional topic priorities:

BMEL funds research projects within all topics of the call.

More details in the national/regional call announcement:

See the national Call announcement in the Bundesanzeiger (www.bundesanzeiger.de)

Contact person(s):
Johannes Pfeifer
Elke Saggau