{"id":83008,"date":"2017-07-27T09:38:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T09:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=dd15947e26508028fdbd8be9bf223ec9"},"modified":"2017-07-27T09:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T09:38:46","slug":"news-story-working-with-china-on-agriculture-challenges-more-time-to-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83008","title":{"rendered":"News story: Working with China on agriculture challenges: more time to apply"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>There\u2019s more time to apply into an up to \u00a38 million competition to develop new technologies that solve the agricultural challenges facing China.<\/p>\n<p>The competition has been extended until 20 September 2017 to give interested applicants in the UK and China the time they need to find collaborators and form strong partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>This is being jointly funded by Innovate UK and\u00a0Biotechnology and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbsrc.ac.uk\/\">Biological Sciences Research Council<\/a>\u00a0(BBSRC) in the UK, and the\u00a0<a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.most.gov.cn\/eng\/\">Ministry of Science and Technology<\/a>\u00a0(MoST) in China. It is part of the\u00a0<a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonfund.ac.uk\/\">Newton Fund<\/a>, which promotes economic development and social welfare of official development assistance (ODA) partner countries.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-were-looking-for\">What we\u2019re looking for<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re encouraging projects in 3 areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>precision agriculture, agriculture digitisation and decision management tools<\/li>\n<li>sustainable agricultural production<\/li>\n<li>agricultural products processing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-health-and-life-sciences\">our work in health and life sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Registrations are now open until 13 September, with final applications expected by midday on 20 September<\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to range in size up to \u00a32 million and to last up to 3 years<\/li>\n<li>all projects must involve at least one UK business, one UK higher education or research council institute, one Chinese business and one Chinese academic institution<\/li>\n<li>work must be carried out either entirely in China, or in both China and the UK<\/li>\n<li>you could attract up to 70% of your project costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/19\/overview\">Apply for this competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for an up to \u00a38 million funding competition to work with Chinese partners on agritech solutions has been extended.<\/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\/83008"}],"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=83008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}