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Horizon 2020 (2014 - 2020)

Analytical tools and models to support policies related to agriculture and food

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Location:EU 27, Switzerland
EU 27, Switzerland
Funding agency:
Horizon 2020 (2014 - 2020)
Grantmaking entity type:Development Institution
Status:Awarded
Budget: EUR 12,000,000
Award ceiling:N/A
Award floor:N/A
Sector:GIS, Mapping & Cadastre, ICT & Telecommunications, Agriculture & Rural Development
Eligible applicants:Unrestricted / Unspecified
Eligible applicant countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, A ...
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Azores, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dem. Rep. Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Commonwealth of, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, French Southern Territory, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine / West Bank & Gaza, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos, Tuvalu, Uganda, UK, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Date posted: Oct 30, 2017

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Call updates:

13 December 2018 11:13

Call for proposals: H2020 – Rural Renaissance (H2020-RUR-2018-2 second stage and H2020-RUR-2018 singled stage)

The Commission and the Research Executive Agency have now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call and informed the applicants on 11 December 2018.

An overview of the evaluation results ('flash call info') is now available in the section "Additional documents" of the "Topic conditions and documents" tab of the correspondent topic page:

 · RUR-04-2018-2019 - Analytical tools and models to support policies related to agriculture and food. Sub-topic A - Developing new models supporting policies related to agriculture

The grant agreements are expected to be signed by May 2019.

19 September 2018 17:29

The submission of proposals to the 5 topics of H2020-RUR-2018-2 Second Stage closed on 11 September 2018. A total of 23 proposals were submitted. The number of proposals per topic is as follows:

RUR-04-2018-2019 (RIA): 10

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated to the applicants in December 2018

28 May 2018 17:45

The generalised feedback, resulting after the 1st stage evaluation of this topic, is published on this page. To download the document, just expand the "Topic conditions and documents" area (i.e. click on '+ More'), scroll down until "Additional documents" and the generalised feedback can be downloaded in pdf.

22 May 2018 19:06

RUR-2018-2 first stage call

The REA Agency has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the H2020- RUR-2018-2 first stage call. The following overall thresholds were applied:

RUR-04-2018-2019 (Scope A) Analytical tools and models to support policies related to agriculture and food. Scope A - Developing new models supporting policies related to agriculture 8

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

RUR-04-2018-2019 - Scope A RIA: 15 submitted proposals. 10 proposals are above threshold

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals. 
It is expected that the first grant agreements will be signed around April 2019. 
Information on the selected projects will be published on CORDIS (available at http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html) after that date.
Please note that the number of proposals that can finally be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the REA Agency.
For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service (available at http://ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries)

22 May 2018 19:06

Letters informing on the results of the evaluation are being sent to applicants.

Under the tab 'Topic conditions and documents' the following document is available in section 8. "Additional documents":
An overview of the evaluation results (Flash Call Information);

05 March 2018 11:26

An overview of the number of proposals submitted is now available under the ‘Topic conditions & documents’ section on the topic page.

11 December 2017 17:15

Under the point "5. Proposal templates, evaluation forms and model grant agreements (MGA)" of the "Topic Conditions" area, the 1st stage proposal template is now embedded in the general template.

31 October 2017 00:34 The submission session is now available for: RUR-04-2018-2019(RIA).

TOPIC : Analytical tools and models to support policies related to agriculture and food

Topic identifier: RUR-04-2018-2019
Publication date: 27 October 2017
Types of action: RIA Research and Innovation action
DeadlineModel:
Planned opening date:		 two-stage
31 October 2017		 Deadline:
2nd stage Deadline:		 13 February 2018 17:00:00
11 September 2018 17:00:00
Time Zone : (Brussels time)

Horizon 2020
Pillar: Societal Challenges
Work Programme Year: H2020-2018-2020
Work Programme Part: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Call : H2020-RUR-2018-2020

Topic Description

Specific Challenge:
Society assigns an increasing number of objectives to the policies influencing the agricultural sector and rural areas that it expects to see fulfilled. Therefore, justifications for policies extend well beyond mere food production. Evidence-based policy making implies the development and maintenance of appropriate instruments for use in the design of these policies and for the monitoring of their effects, taking advantage of new socio-economic approaches and increased possibilities opened up by progress in the ICT area.
Scope:

A. [2018] Developing new models supporting policies related to agriculture (RIA)

Modelling policies dealing with agriculture and the related management of renewable resources at various geographic scales implies the development of a new architecture taking advantage of progress in modelling approaches and ICT. Given the focus on local effects of global events and EU policies, new approaches should take into account the individual decision making unit (e.g. agent-based or machine learning-based approaches). Modelling will include such aspects as the environmental and climatic impacts of farming, delivery of ecosystem services modelling of aspects ranging from product / sector to farming systems, structural change including the transfer of production factors such as land, the integration of agriculture in rural society and will allow the establishment of links with biophysical models and geo-referenced datasets. Proposals will develop modelling at various geographic scales – from regional to global. They will build a highly modular and customisable suite of tools which will allow flexible use and further improvements as needs arise.

B. [2019] Modelling international trade in agri-food products (RIA)

Trade modelling has a long-standing tradition but some issues are notoriously difficult to assess and include in the existing simulation models. Proposals will develop appropriate methodologies to include some of these issues in existing trade models. These issues include (non-exhaustive):

  • Non-tariff measures (NTM): The project will work on a methodology to assess the welfare effects of NTM (both positive and negative) and to include them in trade simulation models. This should go further than the standard gravity model approach which has strong downsides as discussed in the literature;
  • Geographical Indications (GIs): The project will work on a methodology to assess the welfare effect of GIs and the resulting trade impacts of different schemes under trade negotiations;
  • Zero trade flows: Current trade models have problems creating trade flows that did not exist before due to tariff or NTM reasons. This project will work on a methodology to overcome this bias;
  • Quality differentiation: current trade models typically assume homogeneous goods. However, agri-food trade is becoming increasingly heterogeneous. The project should aim to broaden the commodity scope by including horizontal and vertical product differentiation trade models.

Proposals for both sub-topics should ensure that the approach proposed will be compatible with and improve the tools used at the European Commission. Proposals should include a task to cluster with other projects financed under the topic and with the modelling platform SUPREMA established under SFS-49-2017.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 4 million for A and 5 million for B would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

Expected Impact:
  • In the short term: improvement of the capacity to model policies dealing with agriculture and related natural resources, food and international trade;
  • In the medium to long term: improvement of policy design, impact assessments and monitoring.
Cross-cutting Priorities:

Socio-economic science and humanities

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Horizon 2020 - is a Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, and is created by the European Union in order to support and encourage research in the European Research Area (ERA). This is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). By coupling research and innovation, Horizon 2020 is helping to achieve this with its emphasis on excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges. The goal is to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to innovation and makes it easier for the public and private sectors to work together in delivering innovation. The Horizon 2020 programme running from 2014 to 2020 has a €79 billion budget (a 46% increase over FP7).

It is structured around three core pillars:

  • Excellent Science (~€24.4bn)
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