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  • DAERA directed Agri-food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) research work programme

    Topics:
    • Animal Health, Welfare and Trade, 
    • Education and Research, 
    • Bovine Tuberculosis Research, 
    • DAERA Research

    On an annual basis, DAERA uses informal and formal consultation with stakeholders to inform their commissioning document for this Programme.  The commissioning document outlines the Department’s priority needs for projects each year and AFBI are invited to submit research proposals to address these. 

    Budgetary constraints mean that we cannot fund all the needs identified but other options are available to address these needs, such as the DAERA-funded Postgraduate Studentship Scheme.

    For further information, please see the links below.

    Current call

    • DAERA directed AFBI research work programme 2024

    Work programmes (by year)

    For further information on each of the commissioning years, please click on the relevant link below.

    • DAERA directed AFBI research work programme 2022/2023
    • DAERA directed AFBI research work programme 2021
    • DAERA directed AFBI research work programme 2019/20
    • DAERA directed AFBI research work programme 2018/19
    • DAERA directed AFBI research work programme 2018/19 (Mini Call)
    • DAERA directed AFBI research work programme 2017/18
    • DAERA directed AFBI research work programme 2016/17
    • ​DARD directed AFBI research work programme 2015/16
    • DARD directed AFBI research work programme 2014/15
    • DARD directed AFBI research work programme 2013/14

    Research projects

    For further information on the projects that were commissioned each year, please click on the link below.

    • DAERA directed AFBI research projects 2011 onwards

    Further information

    For further information contact:

    Chief Scientific Adviser’s Office
    Science, Evidence and Innovation Policy Division
    DAERA
    1st Floor, Ballykelly House
    111 Ballykelly Road
    Limavady
    BT49 9HP
    Telephone: 028 77 442004
    Email: E&I@daera-ni.gov.uk

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