Innovation
Six projects will benefit from £438,000 of investment to drive innovation in farming and food production.
Delivered through the Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund, the new funding supports projects that introduce innovative approaches to enhancing competitiveness, promoting efficiency, and helping businesses shift to a low carbon climate resistant economy.
Announcing the funding while visiting Stravenhouse Farm near Carluke, one of the farms involved in the project, Rural Minister Mairi Gougeon said:
The European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) Contact Point is preparing a series of 'LEADER thematic labs'.
There will be up to four labs with 30 LEADER stakeholders in each. The thematic labs will be an opportunity for an in-depth exchange of ideas and will include keynote presentations, discussion of lessons learnt, including enabling factors and challenges, current achievements and future outlook.
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Would you like to travel overseas to research a new idea?
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust is currently accepting applications for Churchill Fellowships.
The fellowships offer an opportunity for anyone to research new ideas overseas and make change happen in their profession or community when the return.
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Would you like to see your broadband project recognised at a European level?
The European Broadband Awards are open for entries to big or small, rural or urban, private or public projects. Projects should be at least 65% complete.
The five award categories are:
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Green Villages
The aim of the project is to build pro-ecological attitudes towards the inhabitants of rural areas. It is directed to residents of areas covered by the LEADER programme, especially for people living in single-family houses, people with farms.
A call for papers and posters for the third Rural Health and Care Wales conference is now open.
The ‘Rural Resilience in Health and Care, communities and individuals’ will take place on 5 and 6 November 2019 at the Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, Powys.
The conference strands are:
A proposed community and regeneration project in Banff is looking for a partner organisation to help change local people's lives.
The project aims to restore the Vinery building at Duff House, as part of Aberdeenshire Council's wider regeneration efforts. A community consultation has been carried out to identify possible uses for the Grade B listed Glass House in Airlie Gardens, which is currently in a poor state of repair.
Do you know a small or medium-sized business in Scotland that deserves special recognition?
The Scottish Rural Awards 2020 are now open for entries and nominations in a number of categories including a new category: Best Countryside Digital Innovator. The winner of this category will be crowned for successfully championing digital projects and products across the agricultural, rural and tourism sectors in Scotland.
The award categories are:
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€470 million of Horizon 2020 funding is available for research projects on farming, food and the bioeconomy.
Horizon 2020 is the biggest European Union Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over seven years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract.
Calls open in October 2019.