"During FACCE-Evolve, the Strategic Research Agenda has been updated (2016, 2020) and 2 Implementation Plans (2016-2018, 2018-2020) have been published with a third one under development.
To date FACCE-JPI has put in place over 10 research actions, including Knowledge Hubs, joint calls, ERA-NETs, an EJP co-fund, and innovative alignment mechanisms. The ERA-NETs SURPLUS, ERA-GAS, SusCrop and FOSC were developed as well as the EJP Soil. A joint action with the Water JPI gave rise to 21 projects under WaterWorks 2015. Four alignment actions were put into place (TAP Soil and the Knowledge Network on Sustainable Intensification, Knowledge Hub on Food and Nutrition Security and Sci-Pol Hub). Between 2010 and 2018, FACCE-JPI, member countries budgeted over 85 Mio€ to actions granting projects with over 112 Mio€.
Additionally, FACCE-JPI has organised 16 workshops (including exploratory, preparatory and joint workshops) to map current research, explore new areas, scope research actions or valorise research project results, and has contributed to the organisation of three high level events.
FACCE-JPI also continued to carry out the core activities including:
- the organisation of 3 Governing Board meetings per year, 2-3 each Scientific Advisory Board and Stakeholder Advisory Board meetings per year;
- European and international relations, resulting in a strategy for European and international cooperation that gave rise to the addition of New Zealand as an associate member and multiple collaborations with other actions;
- the preparation for self-sustainability;
- monitoring and evaluation of individual actions and FACCE-JPI as a whole (2 reports prepared in 2016 and 2020).
The emphasis was also placed on communication and valorisation in order to provide information on FACCE-JPI’s activities and disseminate their results, through:
- Website: 139 new items were published on the FACCE-JPI website;
- Social media: 761 items were tweeted, live tweeted or retweeted on the FACCE-JPI twitter account;
- Newsletter: 9 newsletters were issued;
- Brochures: 4 brochures were produced (FACCE-JPI in Brief, FACCE-JPI Fact sheet, Book of abstracts and Joint Knowledge Creation – Towards a sustainable agriculture in a changing climate);
- Press releases and articles: three press releases were issued (“Grand Debate on Nutrition Security”, “SRA and IP, together with the event announcement of “International soil research – Opportunities for synergy and cooperation with FACCE-JPI”” and “Researchers funded through FACCE-JPI join forces to provide recommendations to tackle climate change”) and two articles were published (“Soils Management Under Climate Change Mitigation"" and “Coordinating research to overcome the challenges of agriculture, food security and climate change”);
- Valorisation workshops and related publications: a pilot valorisation workshop was organised, two valorisation workshops were co-organised and one related publication was issued (“Synthesis of the valorisation survey FACCE-JPI funded projects”);
- Policy briefs: input was provided to three policy briefs produced by BiodivERsA (""Policy tools to manage synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services"", “Green infrastructure within agricultural landscapes strengthens the supply of ecosystem services” and “Green infrastructure within agricultural landscapes strengthens the supply of ecosystem services”);
- Other: an interactive tool was developed to feature a visually intuitive organisation of the FACCE-JPI projects with information about each of them and a card game was created to provide information on FACCE-JPI to a larger audience."
