ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 10
This grant provides £2,500 to English farmers, growers, and foresters to hire an Innovate UK-registered facilitator to help prepare a high-quality application for the Full ADOPT Grant. The primary goal is to de-risk and support the adoption of new on-farm technologies that improve productivity, sustainability, and net-zero progression.
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Competition Scope & Overview
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will invest up to £100,000 to support the development of applications for on-farm trials and farm experiment projects. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received.
This funding is part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme, delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.
This competition is designed for farmers, growers and foresters based in England who are keen to test and trial new ideas or solutions on-farm and require support to develop a Full ADOPT Grant application.
The aim of this competition is to:
provide a £2,500 grant for a farmer, grower or forester based in England to engage an external Project Facilitator to support with submissions into the Full ADOPT Grant competitions improve the quality of Full ADOPT Grant applications make ADOPT funding accessible to a wider range of applicants enhance the skills and expertise of the farming eco-system to engage with innovation funding
If you are successful in this competition, you will need to provide evidence within three months of funding being awarded that your Full ADOPT Grant application has been sent for assessment before any payment can be made to you.
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition has a funding limit, so we may not be able to fund all the proposed projects. It may be the case that your project scores highly but we are still unable to fund it.
We consider a range of factors when determining whether to provide funding to applicants. This includes an assessment of prior conduct, such as any outstanding payments owed to Innovate UK or UKRI. Such factors may influence the funding decision, potentially resulting in a refusal of funding or an award subject to additional scrutiny.
We also reserve the right to adjust funding allocations for any of our competitions. This may be in response to changes in policy, portfolio funding considerations or broader government funding decisions.
This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated in this Innovate UK competition brief. We cannot guarantee other government or third party sites will always show the correct competition information.
Official Applicant Guidance Documents
Applicant Briefing ADOPT scope.pdf
This document provides the official applicant briefing slides for the Innovate UK ADOPT grant competition. It outlines the scope, eligibility criteria, application processes for both the Facilitator Support and Full grants, and essential guidance on project finances and support resources for prospective applicants.
Download Official DocumentApplication Questions & Guidance Brief
Every question below carries specific word limits and guidance criteria.
Project summary
Official Guidance
Describe your Full ADOPT Grant project you intend to apply for. We use this section to assign the right experts to assess your application so you must be clear about which agricultural, horticultural or forestry area you are working in.
Scope
Official Guidance
Describe how your Full ADOPT Grant project fits the scope of the competition by summarising how your project will be testing and trialling on-farm or immediate post farmgate solutions that are either new or not yet widely used. If your project is not in scope, it will not be sent for assessment. We will tell you the reason why.
Location of the farmer, grower or forester who is the applicant for this grant (not scored)
Official Guidance
You must state the name of your farming, growing or forestry business along with your full registered address and, where relevant, the County Parish Holding (CPH). We are collecting this information to understand more about the geographical location of all participants of a project.
Tell us about you and your business (not scored)
Official Guidance
Tell us about you and your business. You must include: your name and role in the business; the trading names of your farming, growing or forestry businesses if different from your registered name; which county your main farming, growing or forestry activity is based; what you grow or produce.
Animal testing (not scored)
Official Guidance
Will your Full ADOPT project involve any trials with animals or animal testing? You must select one option: Yes; No. We will only support innovation projects conducted to the highest standards of animal welfare. Further information for proposals involving animal testing is available at the UKRI Good Research Hub and NC3R’s animal welfare guidance.
Permits and licences (not scored)
Official Guidance
Will you have the correct permits and licences in place to carry out your Full ADOPT project? We are unable to fund projects which do not have the correct permits or licences in place by your project start date. You must select one option: Yes; No; In the process of being applied for; Not applicable.
International collaboration (not scored)
Official Guidance
Does your proposed work involve any international collaboration or engagement? You must provide details of any expected international collaboration or engagement. You must include a list of the names and the countries, any international project co-leads, project partners, visiting researchers, or other collaborators are based in. You must also include details of any subcontractors or service providers. If your proposed work does not involve international collaboration or engagement, your answer must confirm this.
Export licence (not scored)
Official Guidance
You must indicate whether an export control license is required for this project under the academic export control guidance. You must select one option: Yes; No.
Trusted Research and Innovation (not scored)
Official Guidance
You must explain if your proposed project work relates to UKRI’s Trusted Research and Innovation (TR&I) Principles, including: a list of any dual use (both military and non-military) applications to your research; a list of the areas where your project is relevant to one or more of the 17 areas of the UK National Security and Investment (NSI) Act; whether an export control license is required for this project under the academic export control guidance and the status of any applications; a list of any items or substances on the UK Strategic Export Control List. If your proposed work does not relate to UKRI’s TR&I Principles, your answer must confirm this. We may ask you to provide additional TR&I information at a later date, in line with UKRI TR&I Principles and funding terms and conditions.
What is the idea or solution you have identified to trial on-farm?
Official Guidance
What is the problem that you are trying to fix, and what idea or solution do you wish to trial and test? Explain: what the idea or solution is; where did you hear about it; what is the problem this is seeking to address, and how this also affects other farming businesses; why is this idea or solution better than what already exists; what your plan is to test this on-farm.
How will your idea or solution benefit other farmers, what improvements will it offer?
Official Guidance
What improvements will this idea or solution offer you and other farmers, growers or foresters like you? Explain how your idea or solution will impact one or more of the following: productivity; resilience; sustainability and progression towards net zero emissions. How could the idea or solution be adopted by other farmers, growers or foresters? Describe: the applicable farming or forestry business sectors; how do you expect the idea or solution to be integrated or adopted into existing systems.
Project Facilitator and Full ADOPT Grant team
Official Guidance
Who is the Project Facilitator you are planning to work with for the Full ADOPT Grant application. Who else may be part of your team for the Full ADOPT Grant project? Provide details of the ADOPT Project Facilitator who is working with you, including their name, relevant skills, experience and their business relationship if any, to your project. Explain: if you already know the team you are intending to work with for the Full ADOPT Grant project; any resources, equipment and facilities you will be needing; any additional parties you may need to help you test or trial the idea or solution on-farm.