The European Commission, EU Member States and Associated Countries have joined forces to fund two major Research and Innovation partnerships in key areas of agricultural production. They will work over the next seven years on agroecology and on animal health and welfare, essential issues for sustainable farming and food systems.
The European Partnership on Agroecology and the European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare are being launched under the umbrella of the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon Europe, following a co-creation process of several years with close involvement of the European Commission. These Partnerships will bring together funding organisations, research institutes, laboratories, universities, industrial partners and other key stakeholders from EU Member States and countries associated to Horizon Europe to advance research and generate ready-to-use innovations. These will include decision support systems, methods and tools to monitor and measure the effect of farming practices in the long term, products and services like candidate vaccines, and capacity building.
The EU budget will cover up to 50% of the costs of these two partnerships, estimated to reach a total of €600 million, while the other half will be covered by the partnerships’ consortium members. This underlines the EU’s commitment to produce concrete solutions for the sustainability challenges in the agricultural sector and the capacity to mobilise partners in EU Member States and countries associated to Horizon Europe. This also create synergies and foster economies of scale.
The European Partnerships are instruments to align the EU and participating countries research programmes. Both partnerships have developed strategic research and innovation agendas on agroecology and on animal health and welfare, that will be implemented through work programmes with concrete actions.
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Fonte: Commissione Europea
