{"id":64,"date":"2017-02-20T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2018-08-06T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T08:52:52","slug":"pump-prime-funding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/pump-prime-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Pump Prime Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/files\/2017\/02\/AgriFoodLogo_Vertical_RGB-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"171\" \/>Lancaster University, as part of the\u00a0HEFCE N8 Agri-Food programme, will invest \u00a3522K between April 2016 and March 2020, in part to support collaborative projects, workshops and outreach activities. This programme will be in partnership with equivalent funding pools within the other 7 partner Universities.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster University academic applicants are invited to bid, for pump priming grants that are notionally between \u00a3500 to \u00a315K per application, to support LU activities related to Agrifood research in collaboration with N8 partners. Larger bids may be covered, under exceptional circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>All projects must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Include at least\u00a0one more\u00a0N8 institute partner<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate a clear pathway to a future more substantial funding bid<\/li>\n<li>Be fully costed through RSO before submission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Latest call announced 26th July 2018:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">The Lancaster N8 AgriFood Programme is pleased to announce a further round of Pump Prime funding to help develop research activities in the AgriFood sphere in collaboration with other N8 Universities. We will accept bids of no more than 9 months duration up to a maximum of \u00a315,000. All bids must include at least 1 additional N8 partner and successful bids must be completed no later than 31<sup>st<\/sup> October 2019. The deadline for this call is 5pm 28<sup>th<\/sup> September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals relating to <strong>crop and soil innovation<\/strong>, <strong>policy impact<\/strong> and <strong>farming engagement<\/strong> will be particularly welcomed.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please contact Katerina Psarikidou <a href=\"mailto:a.psarikidou@lancaster.ac.uk\">a.psarikidou@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a> or Shane Rothwell <a href=\"mailto:s.rothwell1@lancaster.ac.uk\">s.rothwell1@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Submissions\u00a0 will be assessed by panel after the closing date.\u00a0\u00a0Application forms can be requested from Ali Birkett (a.birkett1@lancaster.ac.uk). Completed applications should be returned to the same address.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lancaster University, as part of the\u00a0HEFCE N8 Agri-Food programme, will invest \u00a3522K between April 2016 and March 2020, in part to support collaborative projects, workshops and outreach activities. This programme will be in partnership with equivalent funding pools within the other 7 partner Universities. Lancaster University academic applicants are invited to bid, for pump priming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/n8-agrifood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}