Bayer - NIAB Challenge Grant Program | Agriculture

Bayer - NIAB Challenge Grant Program

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What we're looking for
What we can offer you
Who we are
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Background

As part of the partnership between Bayer's Crop Science Division and NIAB, we have created this pre-competitive challenge grant program to support the early exploration of exciting science project in areas where there is mutual interest to both parties.

This is an exclusive opportunity for NIAB scientists to receive funding for cutting edge ideas and connect with the Bayer team for their execution.

What we're looking for

We are looking to fund exciting and novel projects in areas of mutual interest between NIAB and Bayer.

Projects will be assessed based on:

Scientific merit
Novelty of the concept
Technical readiness
Commercial potential
Quality of the application

Solutions of interest include:

Novel crop protection approaches for biotic and abiotic stresses
Regenerative agriculture systems and soil health
Manipulating environment to maximise genetic potential
Crop breeding, modeling, and data science
Biotech and genome editing tools and products
Plant trait gene discovery
Phenotyping technology

Acceptable technology readiness levels (TRL):

Levels 1-6

What we can offer you

Eligible partnership models:

Gift/award

Benefits:

Gift/award

Successful projects will receive pre-competitive funding to support their experimental plan. Grants are anticipated to be in the range of £10,000 to £15,000. Recipients can use the funding for research, personnel, equipment and other purchases.

Expertise

Each successful submission will be partnered with a Bayer scientist who will provide guidance and feedback on the project.

Tools and Technologies

Access to chemical libraries, DNA sequences and screening technologies will be provided on a case by case basis.

Who we are

Bayer’s vision of #HealthForAll, #HungerForNone drives our need to strengthen innovation capabilities in all areas of agriculture. We know we can’t accomplish this alone, so we're always interested to hear about novel, early-stage scientific innovations that can contribute to feeding the world without starving the planet. You have our commitment to take a look, match with our R&D priorities and provide you timely feedback.

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Reviewers

Gustavo Belchior

Open Innovation & Strategic Partnerships LatAm

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