Pre-announcement of call Fostering agroecology at farm and landscape levels

[Sari Himanen]

The new Horizon Europe partnership AGROECOLOGY is pre-announcing its first call for European research projects on the preliminary working topic ”Fostering agroecology at farm and landscape levels”.

Call scope:
The objective of the call is to fund transdisciplinary research and innovation projects addressing the agroecology transition of both conventional and organic farming systems. Projects are expected to study and implement agroecology at two geographic scales:
• Theme 1 – At the farm level and its immediate surroundings
• Theme 2 – At the landscape or territorial level
Proposals should demonstrate a multidisciplinary and integrated approach with a multi-actor perspective. They should consider the problems and challenges from a European perspective and beyond. Projects may be based on existing living labs or bring together different actors following the living lab approach. Research Infrastructures could be incorporated to complement the living lab approach. R&I questions should address actual needs of stakeholders, in co-creation processes together with end-users and integrate their practical knowledge.

Preliminary timeline:
Call announcement Feb 2024
Deadline pre-proposals Apr 2024
Deadline full proposals Sep 2024

Who can apply?
Researchers from universities and other higher education institutions, research institutions, actors from the public sector, non-profit organisations, and private companies can apply, subject to the national/regional regulations and eligibility criteria detailed in the call announcement.
Applying consortia must include at least three eligible partners requesting funding from at least three different countries contributing funds to the call. Funding for the participating organisations will be provided by their respective national or regional funding organisation according to their legal terms and conditions and those of the European Commission subject to the successful negotiation of the AGROECOLOGY partnership.

Funding countries:
The funding organisations’ names and national and regional regulations will be published with the call announcement.

More information:
Call office: Ulrike Ziegler, u.ziegler@fz-juelich.de, +49 2461 61 55 66
Coordinator (Project Management Juelich, DE): Nicolas Tinois, n.tinois@fz-juelich.de
Details presented in this pre-announcement may be subject to change before the launch of the call. The Call Announcement will be published on the European Commission funding portal.

[Sari Himanen]

The call is now open! The first co-funded call under AGROECOLOGY, “Fostering agroecology at farm and landscape levels”, was launched on the 15.02.2024.

All information on the call including all call documents as well as a partnering tool can be found on the submission website: https://agroecology.ptj.de

The deadline for pre-proposals is April 26th, 2024, at 14:00h CEST.
The deadline for full proposal submission is September 19th, 2024, at 14:00h CEST.

A call webinar will be hosted on 05 March 2024 from 10:00 to 13:00 CET, registration is available at the call website, webinar presentations will be made available afterwards.

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