Challenge Rules
The Mixed Land Use Challenge aims to incentivise innovators to focus on the issues surrounding mixed land uses and to create tools and approaches across the land-based sectors that addresses these issues.
Application
Each team or individual must complete an application form showing how and why they believe their innovation meets the criteria for the prize. Supporting evidence may be required to verify claims made in the application form.
The application form and any supporting documentation is to be sent via email to Farm491 and will be kept on a secure drive. Please identify any confidential information included in your documents at the time of entry. Only the prize organisers and the final judging panel will have sight of this information.
The Challenge is open to anyone who meets the Eligibility Criteria below. We welcome entries from those companies working within the land-based sector already but also from those companies outside of the sector who can demonstrate an alternative use for existing technologies in other sectors.
Eligibility Criteria
Companies entering this Challenge must:
- Be a UK registered company which is up to 7 years old.
- Be operating, or intending to operate, in the land-based sector.
- Have a working prototype or fully developed product/service model.
- Be able to evidence reasonable demand for your product or service in its intended market.
- Be able to demonstrate how the challenge prize fund would advance your organisation to its next stage.
Note that applications proposing using this prize for salary or living costs or to service debt will not be considered.
Please note that monetary values associated with the Challenge are in pounds sterling and that all communications and entries should be made in English.
