Date: 26 Feb 2026 10:30-12:00
Venue: Online
Contracts for Innovation is a competitive UK government programme that enables innovators to work directly with the public sector to develop new technologies and processes, providing funding for R&D and a route to market.
This webinar is the first of a two-stage engagement process. It will help stakeholders understand the direction of the proposed competition and gain insight into Defra’s challenge areas that have been identified as having the potential to benefit from engineering biology–based solutions, including:
- real time, low cost water quality monitoring
- novel biopesticide approaches
- next generation veterinary vaccine platforms
- technologies to address per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pollution
- real time genomic monitoring of aquatic environments
- AI-driven eDNA based ecosystem insights
Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with Defra colleagues in break-out rooms to learn more about the specific challenge areas.
For more information and to register see HERE.