Integrating environmental, economic and social perspectives in assessing the performance of agroecology. Value-chain and policy implications
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Summary
The 2ndco-funded call of the AGROECOLOGY Partnership, welcomes the submission of proposal responding to one of the following topics:
- Topic 1: Determine and assess benefits/impacts and trade-offs of agroecology
- Topic 2: Transform value chains, businesses and policies to facilitate the transition to agroecology
The first Topic focuses on assessing and evaluating the performance of agroecology compared to conventional agricultural practices, in the long term, in its various dimensions.
The second Topic focuses on transforming value chains (e.g., by developing new economic models and/or business structures within value chains) as well as public policies to better support the transition.
Detailed Call Description
AGROECOLOGY, the European Partnership ‘Accelerating Farming Systems Transition: Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures’, is an ambitious, large-scale European research and innovation endeavour between the EC and 26 Member States (MS), Associated Countries (AC) and Third Countries. AGROECOLOGY will support an agriculture sector that is fit to meet the targets and challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, food security and sovereignty, and the environment, while ensuring a profitable and attractive activity for farmers. Agroecology builds on natural, biological interactions while using state-of-the-art science, technology and innovation based on farmers’ knowledge. It represents a promising approach with the potential to respond to challenges faced by the European agriculture sector and to meet its needs. Real-life testing and experimentation environments, living labs are an appropriate instrument to accelerate the agroecology transition. Research infrastructures will also contribute to making scientific knowledge on agroecology available for this transition.
AGROECOLOGY will pool the resources of the EC and the states involved to fund high-level research generating appropriate knowledge and technologies aligned with the core themes described in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, while also implementing a series of supporting activities to inform, consult, advise and involve different stakeholders to build capacities, raise awareness and manage and exchange the knowledge and data create
The 2ndco-funded call of the AGROECOLOGY Partnership, welcomes the submission of proposal responding to one of the following topics:
AGROECOLOGY, the European Partnership ‘Accelerating Farming Systems Transition: Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures’, is an ambitious, large-scale European research and innovation endeavour between the EC and 26 Member States (MS), Associated Countries (AC) and Third Countries. AGROECOLOGY will support an agriculture sector that is fit to meet the targets and challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, food security and sovereignty, and the environment, while ensuring a profitable and attractive activity for farmers. Agroecology builds on natural, biological interactions while using state-of-the-art science, technology and innovation based on farmers’ knowledge. It represents a promising approach with the potential to respond to challenges faced by the European agriculture sector and to meet its needs. Real-life testing and experimentation environments, living labs are an appropriate instrument to accelerate the agroecology transition. Research infrastructures will also contribute to making scientific knowledge on agroecology available for this transition.
AGROECOLOGY will pool the resources of the EC and the states involved to fund high-level research generating appropriate knowledge and technologies aligned with the core themes described in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, while also implementing a series of supporting activities to inform, consult, advise and involve different stakeholders to build capacities, raise awareness and manage and exchange the knowledge and data create
The 2ndco-funded call of the AGROECOLOGY Partnership, welcomes the submission of proposal responding to one of the following topics:
Topic 1: Determine and assess benefits/impacts and trade-offs of agroecology, and identify best practices with following themes:
- Methods and procedures to tackle trade-offs in agroecological production
- Scenario analysis to identify and support the most suitable options to accelerate the adoption of the identified best practices at different spatial and temporal scales
Topic 2: Transform value chains, businesses and policies to facilitate the transition to agroecology with following themes:
- Transformation and development of new business models in the value chains to facilitate the agroecological transition
- Coordination among actors, social innovations and policies to enhance the agroecological transition
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The total project costs and requested funding in a proposal is by default not restricted; the costs must be appropriate to meet the project goals. Nonetheless, individual Funders may have regulations and/or restrictions concerning the funding they can award within research projects that must be respected.
For Cyprus the national Funder is the Research Innovation Foundation. The total initial budget is €708.000 and the budget limit per project is €500.000.
The minimum project duration is 24 months, and the maximum is 36 months. The earliest possible start date for projects recommended for funding is January 2026. All projects must be completed by September 2029, unless otherwise informed.
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- New Entrepreneurship
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Rural development
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Consumer Organisations
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Only applicants from countries and regions participating in the call are eligible for funding! The list of participating countries and regions can be found in chapter 4.4 (page 19) of the Call Announcement.
Universities and other higher education institutions, public research institutions, profit and nonprofit organisations, consumers/citizens, civil society representatives and private companies can apply. Subject to Funders regulation and where a Living Lab is a legal entity, a Living Lab may be eligible.
Research Consortia must include at least 3 eligible Partners requesting funding from at least 3 different Members States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries and from Funders who provide funds to the co-funded call. Associated Partners do not count towards this limit. A consortium may include up to 12 Partners. In any case, applicants should be aware that a higher number of represented countries or of Partners in a consortium will not automatically result in a positive evaluation of the proposal.
Each research project consortium must appoint a Coordinator which has to be a Partner of a consortium.
Associated Partners, not requesting funding from any Funder, are welcome to participate in consortia as well. However, Associated Partners cannot be Coordinator, their contribution should not be essential for the project’s successful implementation and they will not count towards the minimum number of Partners. Contributors to one proposal which do not perform any tasks but play a role as e.g. advisory body, can be listed as Stakeholder
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EU Contact Point
If you have questions on the general Call process and proposal submission, you can contact by email the: ptj-agroecology-call-office@fz-juelich.de.