An ongoing programme for access to infrastructures targeting EIC Accelerator beneficiaries. This service provides access to real farmers to test with the aim of helping agricultural startups test their solutions onsite. Test Farms links agricultural startups and farmers owning land that can be used for testing. By enabling these connections, EIT Food helps validate innovative agritech ideas and test products and services, showcasing them to potential clients and investors, and therefore supports technological transformation in European agriculture. The positive impact of this service for EIC-supported agrifood startups in the earlier stages of development will be to enable them to test their technologies, products, and solutions in a real farm field, with the most adequate characteristics in terms of crop, location, time of the year and specialised support to complete the test. This service targets agritech solutions at all levels of readiness, as the tests will be set according to the needs and requirements. The programme opens two calls per year (to test either in Spring or Autumn), but the service is available on demand and offered on a continuous basis.
From €8000 to €15000 depending on country of testing and complexity of test.
There is a cohort option for which applications can be submitted (see website for cut-off dates). Applications outside the cohort timeframe will have services provided in an individualised format.
Prototyping & PoC
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