Smart Sustainable Farming Grant
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This call is open to startups, small and medium-sized businesses and non-profits and 3 others, at idea and R&D stage and prototype and pilot stage. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country.
This grant funds research and innovation projects at the intersection of agriculture, sustainability, robotics, and AI, with a focus on increasing transparency in food systems. It targets organizations working on smart sustainable farming solutions that integrate advanced technologies with environmental and social accountability.
About this grant
The Smart Sustainable Farming Research Program, run by the ETH Zurich World Food System Center, aims to contribute to sustainable, innovative and competitive agricultural production and to increase transparency from agricultural production to consumers. It supports interdisciplinary projects at the interface of agriculture, sustainable production systems, robotics and artificial intelligence. The page notes that the establishment of the Smart Sustainable Farming Research Cluster invites industry partners to participate in the research initiative. The program's funded projects include work on smartphone imaging to predict crop sustainability, genetic and robotic pest detection in vineyards, chemiresistive sensors for nitrogen management and N2O mitigation, AI for sustainable soil microbiomes, spatio-temporal analysis of environmental impacts in Swiss agriculture, and rapid environmental DNA (eDNA) sensing for agricultural pest detection. The World Food System Center administers these competitive research programs in coordination with the Research Commission of ETH Zurich, and they are intended to support new cross-disciplinary, solution-oriented research on food system challenges. Recent news items reference a fenaco donation of 1.2 million Swiss francs to the ETH Foundation to support the program.
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Eligibility
Direct funding is restricted to ETH Zurich World Food System Center members. Industry partners are welcome to participate in the research cluster. The page does not specify further organisation types, geographic restrictions or career-stage requirements.
Key requirements
- ✓Projects must address transparency at the agriculture-sustainability-robotics-AI interface
- ✓Focus on smart sustainable farming practices and outcomes
- ✓Integration of robotics and/or AI technologies with sustainability goals
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Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for Smart Sustainable Farming?
- Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; startup, sme, nonprofit, university, research-institution, consortium. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
Relevant sectors
About this sector
Food systems funding covers sustainable production, supply-chain resilience, food loss, nutrition and smallholder livelihoods. It is offered by agriculture and development agencies, multilateral programmes and foundations, often with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. Applicants are generally asked to show local partnerships and how benefits reach farmers or consumers.
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