US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership Call in Agriculture 2018
The 2018 US-Ireland Research and Development (R&D) Partnership Call in Agriculture is now closed for applications in the following seven priority areas:
- Pests and Beneficial Species in Agricultural Production Systems
- Animal Nutrition, Growth, and Lactation
- Animal Well-Being
- Animal Health and Disease
- Tools and Resources - Animal Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
- Understanding Antimicrobial Resistance
- Food Manufacturing Technologies
The following partner agencies will provide research funding in the Agriculture thematic area:
- In the United States (US), the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), within the US Department of Agriculture
- In the Republic of Ireland (RoI), the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM)
- In Northern Ireland (NI), the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA)
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture has published the 2018 Agriculture & Food Research Initiative Foundation Programme Request For Applications (pdf 1,246 kb) and it is under this Programme that US-Ireland tripartite applicants have an opportunity to compete for awards, but limited only to the scope of the stated priority areas.
Application process summary
Republic of Ireland (RoI) and Northern Irish (NI) applicants in these tri-jurisdictional applications are required to obtain pre-approval from DAFM and DAERA respectively in advance of the formal submission of the combined application to the AFRI Call by the US Principle Investigator. The submission deadline to DAFM and DAERA of the application is 4 weeks in advance of the stated AFRI deadline for the respective seven priority areas that are in scope for the US-Ireland R&D Partnership.
Latest dates for submitting applications under the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Agriculture Call 2018
|
Programme Area Priority in AFRI 2018 RFA |
DAFM/DAERA Deadline by 17.00 h (IST) |
AFRI Deadline |
|---|---|---|
|
Pests and Beneficial Species in Agricultural Production Systems |
17/07/2018 |
14/08/2018 |
|
Animal Nutrition, Growth, and Lactation |
28/06/2018 |
26/07/2018 |
|
Animal Well-Being |
28/06/2018 |
26/07/2018 |
|
Animal Health and Disease |
28/06/2018 |
26/07/2018 |
|
Tools and Resources-Animal Breeding, Genetics and Genomics |
28/06/2018 |
26/07/2018 |
|
Understanding Antimicrobial Resistance |
27/06/2018 |
25/07/2018 |
|
Food Manufacturing Technologies |
27/06/2018 |
25/07/2018 |
A ‘single-proposal, single-review’ mechanism will be facilitated by NIFA who will accept submissions from tri-jurisdictional (USA, NI and RoI) teams to the relevant parts of their existing funding programmes. To be eligible all proposals submitted under the auspices of the US-Ireland R&D Partnership must have research involvement from researchers in all three jurisdictions and these will compete with standalone US-only applications in the seven priority areas concerned.
For further queries contact:
Claire McAllister | Research Policy Branch Email: Claire.McAllister@daera-ni.gov.uk Tel: 028 77442204