Funding of Aquaculture Research:

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Funding of Aquaculture Research Current and
Future Opportunities
Simon Kerley Programme Manager Agri-Food Branch
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• Is one of seven research councils in the UK.
• Is the leading funding agency for academic
  research and training in the biosciences at
  universities and institutes throughout the UK.
• Receives most of its money through the
  Government's Office of Science and Technology.

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Approximately 5.8M
Made up from Responsive mode Grants
(competitive) 4.9M 21 projects Studentships
0.5M 20 projects Core Strategic Grants
(Institutes) 0.3M 7 projects
BBSRC Oasis Database http//dataserv.bbsrc.ac.uk/
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• Genetic control of infectious pancreatic
  necrosis (IPN) in salmon
• Molecular cloning and functional
  characterisation of rainbow trout interferons
• Development of nucleic acid vaccines against
  virus infections of fish

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Funding Examples ..To Welfare and System
Development

• Nociception in fish electrophysiological and
  behaviour analysis
• Factors influencing the neuroendocrine responses
  to stress in trout
• Low-stress techniques for sorting fish in
  aquaculture systems
• Sustainable mussel cultivation an
  interdisciplinary approach
• Halibut farming development

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Aquaculture funding can be sought through a range
of routes

• Responsive mode grants
• Initiatives
• Core Strategic Grants (institutes only)
• Studentships
• LINK

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Two relevant Committees Agri-Food / Animal
Sciences, support basic and strategic research on

• Agri-Food
• The quality and safety of food materials
  throughout the food supply chain, as well as the
  sustainability and efficiency of processes
  involved in the primary production, manufacture,
  storage and distribution of food and food
  ingredients
• Animal Sciences
• Animal function at the level of tissues and
  systems. This covers the basic and comparative
  physiology and behaviour of all animals (both
  vertebrates and invertebrates), including humans,
  but excludes clinical research and studies of
  specific human diseases.

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• Move to four Grant Rounds per year from January
• New Priorities on current from last Grant Round
• Open to BBSRC Institutes, Universities and
  Academic Analogues
• SABRIs Funded by SEERAD
• Trial of Government Partnership Awards
• Defra / FSA contribute a 15 of cost
• Improved funding chance at Strategy Board

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• Support for LINK Programmes
• Food Quality and Safety (FQS)
• Will probably continue for further 5 years and
  incorporate enlarged nutritional remit
• Sustainable Livestock Production (SLP)
• Stand Alone LINK Projects
• Submitted to responsive mode rounds
• Industrial Partnerships

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Food Quality and Safety (FQS) LINK Programme

• The programme will support projects aimed at
  enhancing the quality and safety of both fresh
  and processed foods by improving raw materials,
  ingredients and, where appropriate, processing
  methods.
• Will probably continue for further 5 years and
  incorporate enlarged nutritional remit

Stand Alone LINK

• Projects falling outside defined LINK programme
  areas
• Relevant to BBSRC research interests
• Meet standard criteria for LINK funding

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• Address any topic within BBSRC's mission
• BBSRC only fund the academic partner
• The industrial contribution in cash or kind
• No longer 15 financial contribution. Now
  assessed on the Quality of the industrial
  contribution as a Sliding Scale
• Projects with 50 industrial contribution are
  treated as LINK

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