Environmental Monitoring Innovation

Fund details

Defra and IUK are looking for projects that will:

• support the development of new sensing systems and monitoring capabilities that will either improve existing approaches or introduce new ones
• support the testing of these products, including ‘ground-truthing’ with existing monitoring regimes, verifying their accuracy and reliability, and potential for deployment at scale
• help the UK environmental monitoring sector in anticipating and responding to growing markets for environmental sensing, delivering economic growth to the UK
• deliver new and strengthened partnerships between academia, public and private sectors, and across disciplines, stimulating innovative approaches

Your project must focus on one or more of the following challenge areas:

• biodiversity and natural capital
• soil health (including measuring soil carbon)
• water quality
• greenhouse gas (GHG) and ammonia emissions from Defra sectors

Eligibility

Your project must:

• have total costs between £150,000 and £450,000
• last between 3 and 18 months
• carry out all of its project work in the UK
• intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
• start by 1 August 2024
• end by 31 January 2026

To lead a project your organisation must:

• be a UK-registered business of any size
• collaborate with other UK-registered organisations