Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM)

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 Ireland

Funding: €350,000

Conditions full:

Maximum funding per project:

The maximum funding available per project is: €175,000 from DAFM and €88,000 from Teagasc. Therefore the total combined DAFM/Teagasc public funding to eligible Irish Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) shall not be greater than €263,000 per project. It is not mandatory for Irish applicants to request grant-aid from both DAFM and Teagasc, however where only one of these funders is selected, this must be stated clearly in the Budget Comments section of the ICT-AGRI-FOOD pre- and full proposal application forms and the maximum grant available will be that stated above per project for each funder respectively. Where grant-aid is sought from Teagasc this must be in the form of €88,000 for a four-year Walsh Fellowship-funded PhD – please refer to the ‘Funding Rules’ of the Guidelines for Irish Applicants for more details on how the Walsh Fellowship funding is structured to meet central ICT-AGRI-FOOD requirements.

National eligibility criteria:

  1. Grant applications will only be accepted from DAFM approved Irish RPOs (see section 6 of the Guidelines for Irish Applicants)
  2. The grant request by Irish RPOs must not exceed the maximum funding per project as set out in the Guidelines for Irish Applicants
  3. Address at least one of the ICT-AGRI-FOOD Call’s scientific topic areas (as set out in the central ICT-AGRI-FOOD Call announcement)
  4. Avoid duplication of recent research work already undertaken or ongoing that incorporates the scope of the scientific topic areas in the ICT-AGRI-FOOD Call
  5. Closely align with Sustainable Healthy Agri-Food Research Plan (SHARP) – the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda covering the ‘Sustainable Food Production and Processing’ and ‘Food for Health’ priority areas of the National Research Prioritisation Exercise
  6. Align with relevant national policy and foresight documents including but not restricted to Food Wise 2025, the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs, Innovation 2020,  Our Sustainable Future and Teagasc Technology Foresight 2035.

Applications that do not adhere to these criteria will be deemed ineligible and in such cases the application will not proceed for expert review.

Min. project duration: 3 years                                                   Max. project duration: 3 years

National/regional topic priorities:

DAFM/Teagasc funds research projects within all topics of the call.

More details in the national/regional call announcement:

Please see the ‘Guidelines for Irish Applicants’ located on the DAFM website – this sets out in more detail the rules for Irish applicants seeking grant-aid in ICT-AGRI-FOOD and must be read in conjunction with the requirements set out in this National Annex.

 

As Teagasc are a potential applicant, as well as a co-funder to this Call, only DAFM (i.e. no representative from Teagasc) will take the decision regarding the eligibility of any Irish applicants to the Call or on the final selected projects.

Contact person(s):
John Harrison
Aidan Holohan