Thematic networks to compile and share knowledge ready for practice

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

Programme Description

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01-19

Call

Thematic networks to compile and share knowledge ready for practice

Summary

In support of the European Green Deal, the EU’s climate policy, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the goals and objectives of the farm to farm strategy, successful proposals will focus on sharing knowledge in a language that is understandable and aimed at farmers and foresters. The results of the project are expected to contribute to the objective of modernizing knowledge exchange, innovation and digitization in agriculture and rural areas as well as the European Green Deal. The projects will focus on the increased flow of practical information between farmers/foresters in the EU in a geographically balanced way, creating spillover effects and taking into account differences between regions.

Detailed Call Description

Proposals should address the following activities:

  • Tackle the most urgent farmers’ or foresters’ needs by summarising, sharing and presenting – in a language that is easy to understand and is targeted to farmers and foresters – the existing best practices and research findings that are ready to be put into practice, but not sufficiently known or used by practitioners. The specific themes of the networks can be chosen in a ‘bottom-up’ way on the condition that they contribute to the relevant EU policy objectives, including climate mitigation and adaptation.
  • Compile a comprehensive description of the state of current farming/forestry practices on the chosen theme to explain the added value of the proposal and the relevance of the theme. Proposals must focus on the cost/benefit aspects of the practices collected and summarised, and clarify how the project avoids duplication with ongoing or completed projects and networks.
  • Deliver an extensive range of useful, applicable and appealing end-user material for farmers and foresters.
  • This range of material should feed into the existing dissemination channels most consulted by farmers and foresters in the countries.
  • As many “practice abstracts” in the common EIP-AGRI format as possible, as well as other types of materials should be provided to the European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) ‘Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability’, as well as to national/regional/local AKIS channels and to the EU-wide interactive knowledge reservoir.
  • Besides giving the details on the EIP Operational Groups whose involvement is strongly recommended, wherever possible and relevant to the chosen theme, provide also details on how further synergies will be built with future EIP Operational Groups and interactive innovation groups operating in the context of the EIP-AGRI.
  • Proposals must implement the ‘multi-actor approach’, with a consortium based on a balanced mix of actors with complementary knowledge clearly activating farmers/foresters, farmers’ groups and advisors; and run for a minimum of 3 years.
  • In order to better reach and capture knowledge from the targeted farmers/foresters, the networks may organise ‘cross-fertilisation’ through sub-networks covering, for example, a region, a language or a production system.

Call Total Budget

€6,00 million

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

100%

EU contribution per project€3,00 million

Thematic Categories

  • Agriculture - Farming - Forestry
  • Environment and Climate Change
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation
  • Rural development

Eligibility for Participation

  • Farmers Unions
  • Farmers, Agriculturalists
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions

Eligibility For Participation Notes

The following additional eligibility criteria apply: The proposals must use the multi-actor approach. See definition of the multi-actor approach in the introduction to this Work Programme part.

Call Opening Date

22/12/2022

Call Closing Date

23/03/2023

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou Street, 1075 Nicosia
T.Th. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
+357 22205000
Email: support@research.org.cy

Contact Persons:
Marcia Trillidou
Scientific Officer A’
Email: trillidou@research.org.cy

Dr. Mary Economou
Scientific Officer
Email: meconomou@research.org.cy

(Publish Date: 12/01/2023-for internal use only)

EU Contact Point

European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/research-and-innovation_en#contact