Eligibility:

• Projects must fall between £150,000 and £450,000 in total costs.
• Focus areas include biodiversity and natural capital, soil health, water quality, and greenhouse gas/ammonia emissions from Defra sectors.

Project Requirements:

• Proposals should support the development and testing of new products, align with industry and government policy priorities, and potentially be market-ready.
• Projects must focus on terrestrial geographies and may include nearshore regions accessible from land.
• Solutions should offer significant improvements in environmental monitoring, such as enhanced accuracy, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.

Specific Themes:

• Projects may address areas like biodiversity data collection, soil health measurement, water quality monitoring, and emissions tracking from various sectors.
• Proposals must be justified and approved if they fall outside these listed themes.

Exclusions:

• Projects focused on marine monitoring, unlikely to yield viable business propositions, or not focusing on nitrogen-related pollutants (for GHG emissions) are ineligible.

Research Categories:

• The competition will fund industrial research projects.