Agri-TechE for Researchers
Membership can increase the impact of exciting discoveries, enhance funding potential, and create collaborations with new project partners.
How could membership help you?
Members include Universities and Institutes carrying out discovery and applied science, as well as commercial organisations doing targeted, contract R&D and those conducting field scale trials.
As a member, you’ll benefit from:
- Increasing your pathway to impact. Through our events, site visits and Research Digest articles, we share your discoveries to your target audience of stakeholders.
- Research partnerships to leverage new funding. Our membership has a high success rate across funding calls and there is always appetite to discuss projects.
- Support for spinouts and commercialisation. Early stage companies can take root in our network, gaining links to relevant funding, identifying support to shape your commercial proposition, and helping you bring your idea to market.
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Testimonials
John Innes Centre
Agri-TechE has opened a window to the needs of companies across the agricultural supply chain. It helps us to refine the projects that move our research findings towards their deployment in agricultural practice.
We find new commercial partnerships and discover the unseen wealth of on-farm and post farm gate innovation. We identified a new opportunity for our pea research programme which led to the formation of new a joint venture company.
Jonathan Clarke, Head of Business Development
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Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Through Agri-TechE , I have made connections with a number of biotech companies who are using the cutting-edge ideas from research to deliver new products and services for the agricultural sector (from beneficial fungi to new imaging and diagnostics). It’s truly an exciting time to be a plant scientist!
Jake Harris, Associate Professor
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The University of Lincoln
Agri-TechE is about knowing people. It’s also an inter-disciplinary subject where you need to know about agriculture, food, and all aspects of technology. The only way you can get that information is through networking. And that is what Agri-TechE is all about.
Agri-TechE ’s network is UK-wide and international. It’s one global family that connects us to the whole thing, it’s brilliant!
Simon Pearson, Professor of Agri-Food Technology
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John Innes Centre
Agri-TechE is one of the largest and longest established networks in Europe, facilitating exchange of ideas between key stakeholders over the last 10 years. If the UK wants to fulfil its ambitions of improving agricultural productivity whilst reducing environmental impact, we need to fuel closer collaboration between a wide variety of players, including academics, farmers, breeders, producers, consumers, businesses, policymakers, regulators and the public. Therefore, the role of networks such as Agri-TechE will become even more crucial over the next decade.
Graham Moore, Director
Cranfield University
Cranfield has had the pleasure of working with Agri-TechE since 2018. Over that time, we have benefitted greatly from the varied services that the network offers, from the latest information on key topics, through the opportunity to meet key players in the sector, to communication and dissemination of our own activities.
We have particularly enjoyed seeing our early career scientists cut their teeth with imaginative objects at the Emerging Agri-TechE section of the REAP conferences (!), value the opportunity to host conferences at Cranfield that delve deeply into issues relevant to our research (water availability and soil health), and appreciate bespoke introductions to other members of the network that have led to lasting relationships.
Juliet Kauffmann, Partnership Development Manager
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You’ll be in good company…
Rothamsted Research
University of Reading
University of Cambridge
Eurofins Agroscience Services
Harper Adams University
University of Warwick
Verdesian Europe & Africa
Cranfield University
British Beet Research Organisation
BOFIN
University of Essex
Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO)
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