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European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures

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New agroecological practices for more sustainable future

Rising global concerns over climate change, biodiversity loss, and food security cast a shadow over the future of European agriculture. The sector faces unprecedented challenges, demanding a transformative shift. In this context, the EU-funded AGROECOLOGY project spans 26 countries and responds to the urgent need for a sustainable, resilient, and environmentally conscious agriculture sector. Specifically, the project leverages natural, biological interactions alongside cutting-edge science, technology, and innovation. Living labs serve as real-life testing grounds, expediting the transition towards sustainable, resilient agriculture. Research infrastructures contribute to disseminating agroecological knowledge. By uniting resources, AGROECOLOGY facilitates high-level research, generating technologies aligned with the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.

Objective

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. Major change is needed to make the agriculture sector more sustainable, resilient and responsive to societal and policy demands. 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. Together these instruments will allow for ambitious experimentation at different scales, merging science and practice, to provide science-based evidence on the effects of novel approaches and accelerate the agroecology 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 created.

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Call for proposal

HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01

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HORIZON-COFUND - HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions

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FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH
Net EU contribution
€ 6 602 549,86
Address
WILHELM JOHNEN STRASSE
52428 Julich
Germany

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Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Düren
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€ 13 205 099,75

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