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Funding Opportunities |
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AARI provides funding opportunities to help achieve a stronger research and innovation system that assists the agricultural and food industry of Alberta to be globally competitive, environmentally sustainable and encourage a vibrant rural economy.
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AARI
focuses on life sciences, environmental and value-added technologies
and continued emphasis on improving primary production technologies.
Through funding research and development projects and programs, AARI
supports discoveries and platform technologies to sustain and improve
the quality of life in Alberta.
AARI's main strategic areas of funding include:
- Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals
- Crop/Livestock Genomics
- Bio-energy
- Integrated crop and pest management
- Greenhouse gases (reductions/offsets)
- Animal diseases - diagnostics, treatment, and prevention
- Bio-fibres and Bio-polymers
- Value-added products (crops and livestock)
- Crop/Livestock/Human interface issues
AARI is a founding member of the Agriculture
Funding Consortium, a cooperative group of funding agencies whose
goal is to streamline the grant application process and offer more
collaborative opportunities. With one application, applicants can
reach every member of the Funding Consortium. The process is simplified
for applicants, yet still ensures their proposals are exposed to a
number of funding agencies. Members of the Funding Consortium represent
both industry sector groups and government agencies, so research and
development priorities are consistent with an industry-based perspective.
As a member, AARI has a greater opportunity to jointly fund applications
with other members. For applicants, this increases the likelihood
that their proposal will receive the financial support that is required.
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Fall
Call for Proposals 2006/2007
The funding process starts with the primary call for research pre-proposals
and development full applications from September 1 to October 1.
Each member agency of the Funding Consortium will look at the proposals
individually and then as a Consortium. Applicants of research pre-proposals
are notified by Nov 1 whether or not their pre-proposal was
successful. If the pre-proposal makes the short list, a full proposal
must be submitted by Dec 1. All research and development proposals
are reviewed by leading experts including international reviewers.
Visit the Funding
Consortium
web site for further information on the Fall Call for
Proposals 2006/2007.
On-going research and development funding
AARI also accepts proposals throughout the year although it is during
the primary call for applications when AARI is best coordinated to
perform due diligence processes, receive board member approval, and
jointly fund projects and programs within our annual budget. For further
information about year round funding opportunities, please contact
AARI at .
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