Grants for joint initiatives to promote agriculture-based industries

Are you planning activities to promote and develop the local food sector and farm-based tourism? If you’re working with others to deliver them, you can apply for funding.
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Type of service
Grant
Target audience
Agriculture-based business
Application deadline
Ongoing
Application type
Other agriculture- and reindeer husbandry-based industries

Individuals or organisations working together with direct links to the agricultural sector, particularly local food and tourism. The target group also includes Inn på tunet providers (certified by the Norwegian Food Foundation).

You can apply for funding for regional, national and international initiatives. You must be able to demonstrate your capacity to deliver and provide concrete project plans that strengthen the sector’s promotion, visibility and competitiveness.

The measures must promote development and value creation at several levels, including business development, competence building and market opportunities. They must contribute to regional development, preferably in line with the region’s wider business development plan.

The activities we support must contribute to:

  • to establish Norway as an internationally recognised food nation with a distinct local and regional identity
  • for experiences and activities from agriculture and reindeer husbandry to help develop Norway into an attractive travel destination
  • to build a positive reputation for other agriculture-related services and products within the target group

  • Operating aid or general business development
  • Standalone events without a strategic foundation
  • Local and regional food festivals

1. Complete and submit your application

You can find the agriculture application form by logging in to 'My page' with BankID. We ask you to provide information and documentation so we can assess your project. The application includes a 'Talk to an advisor' button, which you can use to ask for feedback before submitting. Remember that you must not start your project before you have submitted your application.

2. Assessment

We process applications on an ongoing basis, and each application is assessed by several people. Our guidelines and regional priorities determine which projects we can fund. We receive many applications and have limited funds, so we cannot approve every application.

3. Decision

Your account manager submits your application to the decision-maker. Once a decision has been made, you will receive an email notification and can find the decision on My page. If you receive a funding offer, read the terms and conditions and check how the funds will be paid out.

Key requirements for funding

To receive services from us, your business must uphold the principles of responsible business conduct and understand its own sustainability risks. Read more about sustainability and responsible business conduct.

State aid rules

Our funding must comply with State aid rules. Five general conditions for State aid must be met.

The General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) forms part of the State aid rules. It contains a set of articles that provide the legal basis for us to support businesses in different circumstances. One or more articles may apply in each case. Read more about GBER.

Legal basis for the scheme

Our funding schemes have been notified to the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA). The legal basis for these notifications is available on the National Legal Basis page.

Other public funding

You must state in your application whether you have applied or plan to apply for other public funding for the project. We also base the amount of funding we award on an overall assessment of how much public funding is needed for the project to go ahead.

When determining the grant amount, we therefore assume that you will receive no public funding, including SkatteFUNN, other than that stated in your application. This applies to funding for the project costs on which we have based our grant calculation (eligible costs). If you receive other public funding, including SkatteFUNN, for the same costs after we have made our offer, we may reduce our grant accordingly or withdraw it.

This does not prevent your business from receiving other public support for project costs other than those used to calculate our grant.

Apply here
You can find the application form by logging in to My page with BankID.
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