Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Funding details
Call : Farm Management Systems for Precision Farming
Country specific: Funding is restricted to organisations from Finland
Funding: €250,000
Conditions short: Public and private organisations
Conditions full:
The main national criteria emphasizes that the research benefit the agri-food livelihood. The work carried out must be pre-competitive research and/or prototype demonstration. Product development supporting individual companies will not be supported. Financial involvement must be clearly stated in the application. The application must contain a plan for communication of results. All applicants must contact MMM already in the planning phase (several weeks before submitting the proposal) due to financial arrangements
Funding does not cover expenditures for activities before the project has been granted. Normally maximum 70 % of the project’s gross eligible costs can be covered by the MMM funding. Applicants must provide the necessary apparatus (equipment costs) for the project themselves.
If a special apparatus and/or subcontracting is needed an explanation and application for funding for apparatus must be included, and MMM must be consulted. If the applicant has not earlier given the explanation for indirect employee costs and overheads the applicant has to give an account to the ministry.
The conditions (in Finnish) can be found at: www.mmm.fi/tutkimus -> Lomakkeet ja ohjeet (Makerasta myönnettyjen tutkimus- ja kehittämishankkeiden avustusten yleiset ehdot)
The maximum amount of the costs/project applied from MMM may not exceed 125 000 €.
Conditions pdf
Contact person(s):
Suvi Ryynänen
Funding schemes
Funding schemes define the funding conditions for different types of applicants.