{"id":78881,"date":"2017-02-13T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8231d5df38e8133ad63855f778f23c9d"},"modified":"2017-02-13T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:28:57","slug":"news-story-biotechnology-innovation-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78881","title":{"rendered":"News story: Biotechnology innovation: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a32 million to invest in business projects as part of the European ERA-NET cofund on biotechnologies.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will support UK businesses in joint projects with organisations from other countries to investigate how biotechnology could support sustainable industrial development.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to help transform the global economy from dependence on fossil raw material to use of more sustainable, bio-based resources.<\/p>\n<p>Projects are expected to include at least one of the following processes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>synthetic biology<\/li>\n<li>systems biology<\/li>\n<li>bioinformatic tools to identify and use metabolic pathways<\/li>\n<li>biotechnological approaches (possibly in combination with chemical ones)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They should also cover one of the competition\u2019s specific research topics, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sustainable production and conversion of different types of feedstocks and bioresources<\/li>\n<li>new products, value-added products and supply services<\/li>\n<li>sustainable industrial processes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-health-and-life-sciences\">See how Innovate UK supports health and life sciences.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition is open, and the deadline for submitting pre-proposals is midday on 2 March 2017<\/li>\n<li>projects are expected to last up to 3 years and must include at least 3 partners from different contributing countries<\/li>\n<li>businesses could attract up to 70% of their project costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/era-net-co-funding-competition-cobiotech\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK businesses can apply for a share of \u00a32 million for biotechnology projects to reduce global dependence on fossil resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}