Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO5938
National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge Development and Demonstration Round 2
This grant opportunity supports proof of concept, validation or early-stage commercialisation activities relating to the development of lower cost, accurate technological solutions for soil carbon measurement.
Successful applicants will demonstrate how their proposed technology solution is effective at measuring, estimating and/or predicting soil organic carbon in an operational environment.
The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:
- fast-track the development and commercial readiness of low-cost and accurate technology solutions to measure and estimate soil carbon stocks, to a standard that could support greater participation in Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) projects
- validate and demonstrate the effectiveness of technology solutions under Australian operational environments
- engage and collaborate with landholders to ensure technology solutions can be used in a cost-effective way within diverse farm management operations
- leverage co-investment to develop, validate and demonstrate the technology solutions.
The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are:
- cost-effective and accurate technology solutions that are nearly commercialised or ready for full commercial deployment
- publicly accessible soil organic carbon stock data for long-term public benefit
- increased market interest in and use of low-cost and accurate soil carbon measurement technologies
- collaborative research partnerships between industry entities and research organisations.
You can apply if you:
- have an Australian business number (ABN)
and are one of the following entities:
- an entity, incorporated in Australia
- a co-operative
- an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
- a publicly funded research organisation (PRFO)
- an Australian state/territory government agency or body.
You can’t apply if you are:
- an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s list of Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme
- an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
- an individual
- a partnership
- an unincorporated association
- a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
- a non-corporate Commonwealth entity.
You can partner with one or more other organisations. But you must decide who the lead organisations is and that organisation must meet the eligibility criteria.
The lead organisation must fill out the application form.
If we give your group the grant, the lead organisation:
- signs the grant agreement
- is responsible for making sure your group follows the rules in the grant agreement.
$20,000,000.00
From $100,000.00 to $5,000,000.00
To apply, go to: https://business.gov.au/nscic-2