TSB Funding: Sensors for Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture & Food Innovation Platform
New Funding Competition: Phenotyping & Trait Measurement
The Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network (BKTN) and the Electronics, Sensors and Photonics KTN (ESPKTN) are co-organising two free consortia-building workshops to promote the competition and networking between the two communities:
- Tues 22 Jan 2013, Cambridge [Plants & Crops]
- Thurs 24 Jan 2013, Edinburgh [Livestock & Aquaculture]
Both meetings are open to people with interests in all of the above, but for the purpose of consortia building, each will focus on a particular agricultural market sector.
This multi-million pound funding competition is expected to open mid-March 2013, with ~£5M government funding potentially available. Business-led consortia will be invited to submit projects in the general area of ‘Phenotyping and Trait Measurement’ technologies applied to animal and crop production.
The scope of the competition is expected to cover – but not be limited to – improving the identification and measurement of key production and quality traits, via the development of tools, technologies and systems to allow:
- Better understanding and application of genomic information
- Better management decision making ‘in the field’
- Data capture and integration
Target Audience
These meetings are aimed at potential applicants from industry and academia, and in particular:
- Providers of technology that could be used to monitor and record traits, e.g. organisations providing sensing or imaging technology
- Those involved in agriculture and related fields (either in a commercial company or research organisation), who could develop and be the ‘end users’ of these technologies.
Case studies are available from the Biosciences KTN website.
January 24, 2013 at Radisson Blu hotel, Edinburgh
