Get matched with a farmer and test your solution on the field!
Need help with testing your agritech solution?
Apply for Test Farms and validate your product with farmers!
Test Farms links agricultural startups & individuals with farmers and testing-land.
Through enabling these links EIT Food wants to help innovative agritech ideas to validate and test their products and services, showcase their business to customers and investors and finally support the technological transformation in European agriculture.
This year, EIT Food is offering Test Farms program to the following applicants:
RIS startups & individuals - incorporated companies from the following countries:
EU Member States: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain.
Horizon Europe Associated Countries*: Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine.
Outermost Regions: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Réunion, Martinique, Mayotte and Saint-Martin (France), the Azores and Madeira (Portugal), and the Canary Islands (Spain).
Non-RIS startups & individuals - Innovators registered in one of the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom
*These third countries, which are all listed in the European Innovation Scoreboard, will be fully eligible for the EIT RIS, following the successful conclusion of individual Horizon Europe Association Agreements.
Participation in the Test Farms program as well as financial subgrant to support testing needs will be available under specific conditions for eligible RIS startups. Non-RIS startups cannot receive the subgrant, however they will be given the possibility to join the program and benefit from the match-making and expert support provided by EIT Food. The cost of these services is 2500 EUR.
Dates could change, but the project management team will report them appropriately. Please read carefully Terms and Conditions before applying to Test Farms Programme 2023.
Benefits
Test Farms programme is designed to link startups or individuals to validate their agricultural solutions (prototypes) with farmers or agricultural/pasture land to do a pilot project.
Program outline
Application period: Jan 2nd 2024 to Feb 8th 2024
Evaluation and selection of program participants: Feb 9th to Feb 15th 2024
Announcement of the results (pre-selection for farmer matching): Feb15th, 2024
Match-making event: Feb 15 to Mar 15, 2024 - Shortlisted startups & individuals will be invited to join one of the match-making events, where they will meet with farmers, evaluate the possibility of testing their innovative solutions on their premises and together create a plan for testing the technology.
Testing phase: Spring 2024 - Innovaitors test their solution on the premises of the farmer/test field according to the plan created during the match-making event.
Demo Day: To be agreed on between farmers and entities. - Following the testing, selected Innovators together with farmers will organise a Demo Day for local farmers/clients to attend, test the solution and possibly buy the product/service.
Please read carefully Terms and Conditions before applying to Test Farms Programme 2024.
Inspired by the iconic Bauhaus movement of the early 20th century, the New European Bauhaus (NEB) is an EIT Community initiative supported by EIT Food in collaboration with Climate KIC, EIT Digital, EIT Manufacturing, and EIT Urban…
EIT Food join force with EIT Digital, Climate-KIC, EIT Food, EIT Health, EIT Manufacturing and EIT Urban Mobility to shape the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe.
