ERC STARTING GRANTS

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Code: 15185 | Identifier Code: ERC-2022-STG | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 23/09/2021 | End submission calls: 13/01/2022

The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

ERC Consolidator Grants

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Code: 15182 | Identifier Code: ERC-2022-COG | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 19/10/2021 | End submission calls: 17/03/2022

The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Preventing groundwater contamination and protecting its quality against harmful impacts of global and climate change

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Code: 15164 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-ZEROPOLLUTION-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Additional knowledge is needed to understand the synergistic effects and risks of multiple stressors and pollutants on groundwater quality to better evaluate the impacts of global and climate change, particularly in highly vulnerable areas affected by diffuse pollution, anthropogenic activities and / or water table fluctuations. Actions in this field should aim to identify and assess sources and pathways of groundwater pollution to inform risk management plans at basin / regional scales, with particular consideration of aquifer recharge with reclaimed water and persistent pollutants.

Developing EU advisory networks on water use

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Code: 15161 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-15 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

The successful proposal will focus on EU-wide consultancy exchanges to increase the speed of knowledge creation and exchange, capacity building, demonstration of innovative solutions, and contribution to their implementation, which accelerates the transitions required. The Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) in which consultants are fully integrated are key drivers for accelerating innovation and acceptance of research results by farmers. This particular issue focuses on the important role that advisors can play in addressing the effects of climate change on water scarcity, water pollution and the avoidance of saline soils, a rapidly coming issue in the most sustainable agriculture of the future.

Improving preparation of multi-actor projects to enable the relevant actors to work in a co-creative way

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Code: 15158 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-14 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

1. Improve the drafting of multi-actor project proposals and in particular the involvement of relevant actors with complementary knowledge in a balanced way in the preparatory stage.

3. The CAP cross-cutting objective of modernising the sector by fostering and sharing knowledge, innovation and digitalisation in agriculture and rural areas, and encouraging their uptake. It will provide overall knowledge to the CAP supported projects related to knowledge creation, organisation and sharing.

4. The outcomes will be connecting actors, policies, projects and instruments to speed up innovation.

Scheme that provides incentives to recruit Young People (aged 15-29) not in employment nor Education or Training (NEETs) – Third Call

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Code: 15152 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 08/11/2021 | End submission calls: 21/01/2022

The Scheme aims to encourage employers to recruit young people (aged 15 to 29) years old neither in Employment nor in Education or Training (NEETs). The recruitment is for full time employment.

The Scheme aims to alleviate youth unemployment (aged 15 to 29) years neither in Employment nor in Education or Training ( NEETs)  and the sustainable integration of young people in the labor market, by placing them in subsidized jobs and further gaining work experience. The Scheme is included in the measures of active employment policy promoted by the Government for the implementation of the “Youth Guarantee”.

Moreover, the person covered (candidate for employment) must have been registered as unemployed at the District or Local Employment Office (Public Employment Service -PES).

The method of simplified cost forms will be used to calculate the amount of the sponsorship. The cost unit for the specific Grant Plan is set at € 34 / working day (179 working days) and corresponds to the amount of sponsorship that each beneficiary will receive for each working day to be completed by the beneficiary, regardless of the actual salary costs borne by the employer / beneficiary.

The grant will be provided for ten (10) months of employment with the employer’s obligation to maintain the employment of the employee for two (2) additional months without subsidy.

Eligible expenditure is the salary cost paid by the employer for the employment period, the amount of which will be specified in the Public Funding Agreement. The employment date and submission of the relevant application must be made within the period of the call from 8/11/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

 Who cannot participate in the Scheme:

1. People (candidates for employment) whose employment was previously funded by Co-funded Projects during the Programming Period 2021-2027.
2. (a) Persons who are Shareholders and / or directors of a Company (excluding Public Companies) members of the Board of Directors, Associations / Foundation/ Institutions (b) Persons who are spouses or are affiliated with a first or second degree (either by blood or by marriage) with the employer. That is, they cannot participate in the employer – employee relationship people associated as spouses, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren. For the above exemptions, the employer is specified in (a).
3. Self-employed to subsidize themselves.

The person hired through the Plan must fill a vacancy notified by the Employer to the Public Employment Service (PES) before submitting the application for participation in the Plan. It is clarified that the date of recruitment and the submission of the application cannot be the same.

The date of recruitment of the individual must be within the validity period of the invitation of the Plan and must precede the date of submission of the application for participation. The application form must be submitted within one month from the date of recruitment.

Applications can be send only with email (in pdf) from 8/11/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

Effective systems for authenticity and traceability in the food system

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Code: 15153 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

The issue of food fraud has been thrust into the spotlight and is of increasing concern to society and to the food industry. It can have very different impacts on consumers, ranging from direct health threats to violation of consumer rights. Τhere is a constant need for sensitive and accurate authentication methods and innovative traceability methods to prevent food fraud and help the industry and official control authorities.

Scheme that provides incentives for the Labor of Unemployed – Third Call

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Code: 15145 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 08/11/2021 | End submission calls: 21/01/2022

The Plan aims to encouraging employers to hire unemployed people. The Scheme aims to tackle unemployment by providing incentives to employers to hire the unemployed by subsidizing  part of the salary cost of the person to be hired. The Scheme is included in the measures of active employment policy promoted by the Government for the integration of the unemployed in the labor market through their placement in subsidized jobs, including the provision of vocational training.

Moreover, the person covered (candidate for employment) must have been registered as unemployed at the District or Local Employment Office (Public Employment Service -PES).

The method of simplified cost forms will be used to calculate the amount of the sponsorship. The cost unit for the specific Grant Plan is set at € 34 / working day (179 working days)  and corresponds to the amount of sponsorship that each beneficiary will receive for each working day to be completed by the beneficiary, regardless of the actual salary costs borne by the employer / beneficiary.

The grant will be provided for ten (10) months of employment with the employer’s obligation to maintain the employment of the employee for two (2) additional months without subsidy.

Eligible expenditure is the salary cost paid by the employer for the employment period, the amount of which will be specified in the Public Funding Agreement. The employment date and submission of the relevant application must be made within the period of the call from 8/11/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

 Who cannot participate in the Scheme:

1. People (candidates for employment) whose employment was previously funded by Co-funded Projects during the Programming Period 2021-2027.
2. (a) Persons who are Shareholders and / or directors of a Company (excluding Public Companies) members of the Board of Directors, Associations / Foundation/ Institutions (b) Persons who are spouses or are affiliated with a first or second degree ( either by blood or by marriage) with the employer. That is, they cannot participate in the employer – employee relationship people associated as spouses, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren. For the above exemptions, the employer is specified in (a).
3. Self-employed to subsidize themselves.

The person hired through the Plan must fill a vacancy notified by the Employer to the Public Employment Service (PES) before submitting the application for participation in the Plan. It is clarified that the date of recruitment and the submission of the application cannot be the same.

The date of recruitment of the individual must be within the validity period of the invitation of the Plan and must precede the date of submission of the application for participation. The application form must be submitted within one month from the date of recruitment.

Applications can be send only with email (in pdf ) from 8/11/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

Integrated surveillance system to prevent and reduce diet-related non communicable diseases (NCDs)

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Code: 15147 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

NCDs such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes are responsible for the deaths of 41 million people each year, equivalent to 71% of all deaths globally. NCDs have a negative impact on both lives and health budgets but are largely preventable through effective interventions that tackle shared risk factors. Proposals under this Call should consider a range of diet-related NCDs, geographic, socio-economic, behavioural and cultural factors. Data collected and integrated by the private and public sectors should be broken down by gender and by socio-economic groups.

Enhancing biosecurity in terrestrial livestock production

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Code: 15141 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Biosecurity can prevent or minimise the risk of transmission of infectious diseases not only to animals, but also people (zoonoses), and contributes to the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Proposed projects should address biosecurity at primary production, at least on farms and where animals are handled, but may also address relevant sectors like the feed industry. Effective biosecurity requires constant attention by those implementing it. Biosecurity can more easily be performed in enclosed facilities, like for indoor livestock farming, than in outdoor production, which may facilitate direct or indirect contacts with wildlife and subsequent transmission of a pathogenic infectious agent to livestock, although risks from outdoor farming may not always be higher than indoor.

Socio-economics of pesticide use in agriculture

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Code: 15136 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Research has shown that well-designed integrated pest management programmes can control pests in an ecologically friendly manner; however, farming today relies on chemical treatments to ensure farm profits and yield. A better understanding of the social, economic and policy factors that can hinder or promote the uptake as well as evidence of the economic performance of integrated pest management/ low pesticide practices are needed to identify measures that can enhance its adoption and encourage the involvement of all relevant actors across the value chain.

Risk assessment of new low risk pesticides

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Code: 15133 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

To ensure the lowest risk to human health and the environment, the development of so-called low-risk substances is encouraged by several regulatory incentives in the EU. The plant protection products approval and authorization process has to keep pace with scientific and technological developments aiming to advance assessment methods of new low-risk plant protection products. Proposals should need to consider and address relevant EU regulatory requirements as well as relevant guidance documents that are to be followed for the specific hazard characterisation and exposure assessment to achieve an appropriate risk assessment.

Microbiomes in food production systems

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Code: 15125 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

The scope covers plant/animal/human/food microbiome interactions that can provide healthier food and reduce human health and environmental risks, and contribute to restoring biodiversity, enhanced circularity, and climate change adaptation.

Research and innovation for food losses and waste prevention and reduction through harmonised measurement and monitoring

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Code: 15120 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Preventing and reducing the amount of food intended for human consumption that is eventually lost or wasted is a complex challenge. The robust and reliable measurement and monitoring of food losses and waste is key to tracking progress made over time and informing the development and implementation of effective strategies and actions. There is also insufficient understanding of the root causes and drivers behind these losses, and this is key to developing effective strategies for preventing and reducing them.

Building alternative protein-friendly sustainable and healthy food environments

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Code: 15117 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Food environments are essential to enabling a dietary shift towards less livestock-based and less highly processed food. Much more R&I is needed on food environments to ensure that environmental sustainability and health objectives can be achieved. To achieve a meaningful dietary shift, a choice architecture should be designed to promote healthy and sustainable food preferences.

Biosecurity, hygiene, disease prevention and animal welfare in aquaculture

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Code: 15105 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

The successful proposal will support research and innovation on animal health and welfare in aquaculture to contribute to an environmentally friendly, inclusive, safe and healthy seafood production, including from freshwaters.

Integrated and sustainable freshwater bioeconomy: Combining aquaculture, biodiversity preservation, biotechnology and other uses

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Code: 15103 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

The successful proposal will support freshwater aquaculture products/processes and/or environmental services sustaining the health of freshwater ecosystems and their bioeconomy sectors.

Innovation Fund Large Scale Projects

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Code: 15099 | Identifier Code: InnovFund-LSC-2021 | Programme name: 15095 | Start submission calls: 26/10/2021 | End submission calls: 03/03/2022

The objectives of this call are to:

• support projects demonstrating highly innovative technologies, processes or products, that are sufficiently mature and have a significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
• offer financial support tailored to market needs and risk profiles of eligible projects, while attracting additional public and private resources.

Innovative solutions to prevent adulteration of food bearing quality labels: focus on organic food and geographical indications

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Code: 15089 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Proposals under this Call should investigate the current fraud practices affecting quality labelled food products, in particular organic and GI, and analyse the root causes/drivers of these practices and obstacles and ways to eradicate them.

EIT Call for Proposals 2021-DESIGN

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Code: 15084 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIT-2021-KIC-DESIGN | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 26/10/2021 | End submission calls: 24/03/2022

By uniting cultural and creative organisations from business, higher education organisations and research centres in a pan-European innovation ecosystem, EIT Culture & Creativity will deliver innovative solutions to help the sectors and industries become stronger and more resilient. This new innovation community will train the sector’s future entrepreneurs, power its cutting-edge ventures, and deliver innovative solutions to the challenges facing the sectors. It would also bridge regional innovation gaps and harness the power of these sectors to support Europe’s cultural leadership. Further information in relation to the thematic scope of EIT Culture & Creativity KIC can be found in the factsheet on the KIC on Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries.