Reinforcing the EU agricultural knowledge base
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Call updates
May 24, 2019 2:39:37 PM
Call for proposals: H2020 – Rural Renaissance (H2020-RUR-2019-1, single 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 23 May 2019.
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-17-2019: Reinforcing the EU agricultural knowledge base
The grant agreements are expected to be signed by September 2019.
28 January 2019
The H2020-RUR-2019-1 call was closed on the 23rd of January 2019. 89 proposals have been submitted in response to this call. The breakdown per topic is indicated below: RUR-17-2018: 2
The evaluation results are expected to be communicated to the applicants in May 2019.
16 October 2018 00:32
The submission session is now available for: RUR-17-2019(CSA)
TOPIC : Reinforcing the EU agricultural knowledge base
| Topic identifier: | RUR-17-2019 | ||
| Publication date: | 27 October 2017 | ||
| Types of action: | CSA Coordination and support action | ||
| DeadlineModel: Planned opening date: |
single-stage 16 October 2018 |
Deadline: | 23 January 2019 17:00:00 |
| Time Zone : (Brussels time) | |||
Horizon 2020
Topic Description
Specific Challenge:Since 2014, the EU has invested in a large number of agricultural research, innovation, coordination and support actions to improve knowledge flows in the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKISs) – the systems of people and organisations in countries/regions that generate, share and use agriculture-related knowledge and innovation[1]. These projects, in particular those applying the multi-actor approach, have compiled innovative solutions for farming and forestry practice, and their outputs include end-user material in many forms such as knowledge databases, IT applications, decision-making tools, videos etc. made available through the websites of the projects, using a variety of standards and IT systems. However, the long-term longevity of knowledge and end-user material produced or collected by these individual actions is not necessarily ensured. The challenge now is to favour their longer-term and wider use with a view to enable updating, consolidating and connecting to regional and national AKISs.
Scope:Proposals shall review activities and outputs, and the communication and information channels for dissemination used by Horizon 2020 multi-actor projects[2]. Consortia shall organise participatory activities with partners from multi-actor projects. Activities shall analyse and compare the approaches taken on their performance and impact for farmers/foresters as well as effectivity of the communication and information channels used for dissemination in countries and regions. Proposals shall explore the feasibility and added-value of developing joint tools, joint platform(s) and/or (e-) infrastructure integrating some or all of the outputs of projects into an EU wide open source system(s) and propose options for the future. Moreover, these options should connect efficiently to existing communication and dissemination channels within the national and regional AKISs.
Proposals shall fall under the concept of the 'multi-actor approach'[3] with a project duration of up to two years. Consortia shall engage with the variety of actors involved in the multi-actor projects as well as with key players in the national and regional AKISs, therefore coordinating activities with the Member States and experts in the SCAR-AKIS Strategic Working Group[4].
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 2.5 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.
Expected Impact:This action aims at improving knowledge flows in the long-term by proposing ways to structure and connect agricultural knowledge created through EU-funded and other projects, with a view to maximise their impact beyond the end of the projects themselves.
By driving future knowledge sharing systems towards the most efficient solutions, the action will, in the short term:
- increase sharing of multi-actor project know-how and spreading of practical information between as many geographical areas and agricultural sectors in Europe as possible, drastically improving dissemination to end-users; and
- produce recommendations and technical specifications which favour greater interoperability and integration of EU and Members States' knowledge bases for practitioners in the future; and
- improve long-term access to practical knowledge produced by the Horizon 2020 multi-actor projects.
In the longer term, greater circulation of innovative knowledge around Europe will contribute to increased competitiveness and sustainability for European farmers and foresters.
Cross-cutting Priorities:Socio-economic science and humanities
RRI
[1]https://scar-europe.org/images/AKIS/Documents/AKIS_towards_2020.pdf
[2]The list of multi-actor projects for each H2020 call is in the footnote linked to the definition of the 'multi-actor approach' in the introduction of the H2020 Workprogrammes
[3]See definition of the 'multi-actor approach' in the introduction to this Work Programme part.
[4]https://scar-europe.org/images/AKIS/Documents/AKIS_foresight_paper.pdf
