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Dear Friend,

This program provides substantial government funding for your project ... which is quite rare in this current economic climate. Truth be told, it's not everyday that the government provides $35 million to help out this industry.

However, the program does come with "strings attached"... it requires a lot of work on your application (in order to rank higher than the other applicants... who want the grant just as much as you do).

From experience, we've found that businesses who are really good at what they do, still have significant difficulties selling their projects to a funding source... because the skills involved in "doing" and "selling" are fundamentally different.

As a result, applicants who are good at "doing" are invariable unsuccessful in "selling" their project and therefore are unable to actually do the work in the end.

We solve this problem by using our extensive experience writing competitive applications to help sell the project, getting it across the line... and getting you the money. This then allows you to make the project happen -- which is what you originally wanted (rather than trying to be a "grant consultant" for the duration of the application process). 

Interested? These are the Next Steps...

To start please Contact Us and we'll handle the rest.

To Your Success,

Ross Turetsky MBA, BCom, BIS
Managing Director, Grant Solutions

The four-year, $35 million Regional Food Producers Innovation and Productivity Program (RFPIPP) aims to boost the productivity and competitiveness of Australia’s regional food and seafood industries through innovation and technology improvements.

$10 million of the $35 million will be set aside for the seafood industry.

Under the program, matched-funding grants, generally between $50,000 and $2 million, are available for food and seafood businesses to undertake projects based around one or more of the following activities:

• Design and implementation of new technologies, production or processing techniques
• Adoption of food production or processing technologies developed overseas
• Innovative redesign of existing production/processing lines to improve efficiencies and productivity.

Program Objectives

The Regional Food Producers Innovation and Productivity Program aims to assist the regional food industry to improve productivity and profitability through innovation in processing and value-adding.

It will achieve this by funding projects that design and/or transfer new technologies, new processing methods and new production methods and implement them for use in the regional food and/or seafood production industries. In doing so, the program will encourage the development of collaboration networks between the regional food/seafood processing industry and the rest of the supply chain.

Eligibility Criteria

All applicants must satisfy the following criteria:

1. You must be a food  producing business involved in value-adding and processing  or a not-for-profit organisation active in the food production industry
2. Your business must be a business registered for tax purposes in Australia with an Australian Business Number (ABN)
3. Your business must be financially sound, with professionally prepared financial statements demonstrating the ability to fund your share of project costs

Funding Activities

Your proposal should focus on designing and applying new production and processing technologies for application in the regional food processing or producing industry.

This includes processing, packaging and logistics, and/or adoption of technology. Projects must have a commercial focus–funding will be available for implementation and commercialisation of new technologies to a point mutually agreed in the funding agreement.

The activities that the program will fund include:

1.    Design of new technologies to proof-of-concept through to implementation and commercialisation to meet a market need
This would involve the creation of new technologies designed to address a real innovation gap in your industry and the implementation of that technology. Technologies could focus on increasing production output, improving efficiency, breakthroughs in food preservation and the utilisation of by-products and waste streams.

The program will not fund full-scale roll-out of the new technology, but may assist in implementing at least one production line.

2.    Adoption of technologies, with regional spill-over benefits
While the technology may have been developed overseas or in another region in Australia, you could make the case that the program should assist you in acquiring the technology. To do so, you would have to convincingly make the case that the adoption of the technology represents a significant opportunity for Australia and/or your regional food sector that would not be possible without government assistance.

For successful applications, strict funding conditions will be imposed requiring the dissemination of lessons learned from the implementation of the technology, in order to demonstrate the benefits of the technology to the wider regional food industry and encourage its uptake.

3.    The innovative re-design of existing production/processing lines to create efficiencies and boost productivity
No production process operates at 100 per cent efficiency. The solution may not lie in buying new and better technology. Increased productivity can be achieved through the re-design of production processes. You would have to objectively quantify your current production efficiency and your expected gains in efficiency, using accepted industrial measures , in order to be eligible for funding.

  Not Funded Activities

The program will NOT fund:

• innovation in the process of farming or fishing, such as planting, growing, fertilising, irrigating, harvesting, breeding and genetics, or catching
• projects where the productivity benefits accrue to the applicant business only at the expense of domestic competitors
• the construction of buildings and infrastructure  such as extensions, roads, or fences
• expenditure related to the normal day-to-day operations of a business
• retrospective project related activities (i.e. anything commenced before a Funding Agreement has been signed by the department)
• the development of new product lines, where the project does not involve the development of new technologies or new processes
• promotional activities not related to disseminating information on the benefits of the innovation to the regional/seafood producing industry
• purchase of land
• remuneration and related costs of personnel not directly engaged in project activity
• initial scoping of the market opportunity/innovation potential
• other activities deemed to be contrary to the spirit/intent of the program or outside the Funding Agreement

Application Process

Rounds will consist of two stages:

1.   Expression-of-Interest
2. Application

Merit Criteria

Your application will be assessed on the degree to which:

1.   the project will lead to improved productivity and profitability in Australia’s regional food or seafood production industry
2.   the project will draw upon and involve existing knowledge and expertise within the Australian regional food or seafood production industry, including through collaboration with value-chain partners
3.   you have the resources and capability to carry the project through to finality
4.   you are able to demonstrate that your project meets your business’s/organisation’s strategic goals
5.   your project would be unlikely to proceed in a reasonable manner and time frame without the funding