46 new projects will receive over €236 million in research funding grants from the Horizon 2020 programme under Societal Challenge 2. These projects will develop innovative solutions, including approaches to reduce pesticide use and to deliver healthy food from land and sea, foster urban food systems, promote agroecology and energy free farming, remove marine litter, and advance ocean observation, among others.
The successful project consortia include the involvement of various actors, from private- and public- research institutions, industry and SMEs, farming, forestry, fisheries, and other civil society organisations. The top countries receiving funding are Spain and Italy, followed by Belgium, Germany and France. The projects will start in October.
The projects were selected from amongst the 254 proposals submitted in January 2020 as evaluated by independent experts.
Societal Challenge 2 (SC2) - Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy - aims to lead the transition towards an optimal and renewable use of biological resources, and towards sustainable primary production and processing systems. SC2 projects are managed by the Research Executive Agency (REA).
See the EU-funded projects:
Sustainable Food Security
BIOSCHAMP (101000651) - Biostimulant alternative casing for a sustainable and profitable mushroom industry
NOVATERRA (101000554) – Integrated Novel Strategies for Reducing the Use and Impact of Pesticides, Towards Sustainable Mediterranean Vineyards and Olive Groves
WeLASER (101000256) – Sustainable Weed management in Agriculture with Laser-Based Autonomous Tools
novIGRain (101000663) – Sustainable Storage of Grains by Implementing a Novel Protectant and Versatile Application Technology
IPMWORKS (101000339) - An EU-wide farm network demonstrating and promoting cost-effective IPM strategies
BreedingValue (101000747) - Pre-breeding strategies for obtaining new resilient and added value berries
GEN4OLIVE (101000427) - Mobilization of Olive GenRes through pre-breeding activities to face the future challenges and development of an intelligent interface to ensure a friendly information availability for end users
HARNESSTOM (101000716) - Harnessing the value of tomato genetic resources for now and the future
Food and Natural Resources
CITIES2030 (101000640) - Co-creating resIlient and susTaInable food systEms towardS FOOD2030
FOOD TRAILS (101000812) - Building pathways towards FOOD 2030-led urban food policies
FUSILLI (101000717) - Fostering the Urban food System Transformation through Innovative Living Labs Implementation
In-No-Plastic (101000612) - Innovative approaches towards prevention, removal and reuse of marine plastic litter
MAELSTROM (101000832) - Smart technology for MArinE Litter SusTainable RemOval and Management
HEREWEAR (101000632) - Bio-based local sustainable circular wear
MY-FI (101000719) - Reinventing a smart, circular and competitive textile industry with advanced myco-fibres
New Cotton (101000559) - Demonstration and launch of high performance, biodegradable, regenerated New Cotton textiles to consumer markets through an innovative, circular supply chain using Infinited Fiber technology
COOPID (101000519) - COOPeration of bioeconomy clusters for bio-based knowledge transfer via Innovative Dissemination techniques in the primary production sector
HOOP (101000836) - HUB OF CIRCULAR CITIES BOOSTING PLATFORM TO FOSTER INVESTMENTS FOR THE VALORISATION OF URBAN BIOWASTE AND WASTEWATER
AE4EU (101000478) - Agroecology for Europe AgroEcoLLNet-Prep (101000349) - The European Agroecology Living Lab and Research Infrastructure Network: Preparation phase
MEF4CAP (101000662) - Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks for the Common Agricultural Policy
EFUA (101000681) - European Forum for a Comprehensive Vision on Urban Agriculture
SMS (101000258) - Soil Mission Support: Towards a European research and innovation roadmap on soils and land management
FOODSAFETY4EU (101000613) - FOODSAFETY4EU - MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM FOR FOOD SAFETY IN EUROPE
Transition2BIO (101000539) - Support the TRANSITION towards the BIOeconomy for a more sustainable future through communication, education and public engagement
AgroFossilFree (101000496) - Strategies and technologies to achieve a European Fossil-energy-free agriculture
HyPErFarm (101000828) - HYDROGEN AND PHOTOVOLTAIC ELECTRIFICATION ON FARM
RES4LIVE (101000785) - Energy Smart Livestock Farming towards Zero Fossil Fuel Consumption
TheGreefa (101000801) - Thermochemical fluids in greenhouse farming
ALL-Ready (101000349) - The European Agroecology Living Lab and Research Infrastructure Network: Preparation phase
Rural Renaissance
RUSTICA (101000527) - Demonstration of circular biofertilisers and implementation of optimized fertiliser strategies and value chains in rural communities
SEA2LAND (101000402) - Producing advanced bio-based fertilizers from fisheries wastes
COACH (101000918) - Collaborative Agri-food Chains: Driving Innovation in Territorial Food Systems and Improving Outcomes for Producers and Consumers
COCOREADO (101000573) - Connecting COnsumers and producers to REbalance farmers’ position through AmbassaDOrs trainings
agroBRIDGES (101000788) - Building bridges between consumers and producers by supporting short food supply chains through a systemic, holistic, multi-actor approach based Toolbox
CO-FRESH (101000852) - CO-creating sustainable and competitive FRuits and vEgetableS’ value cHains in Europe
FAIRCHAIN (101000723) - Innovative technological, organisational and social solutions for FAIRer dairy and fruit and vegetable value CHAINs
Ploutos (101000594) - Data-driven sustainable agri-food value chains
FOODRUS (101000617) – An Innovative Collaborative Circular Food System to Reduce Food Waste and Losses in the Agri-Food Chain
LOWINFOOD (101000439) - Multi-actor design of low-waste food value chains through the demonstration of innovative solutions to reduce food loss and waste
BRANCHES (101000375) - Boosting Rural Bioeconomy Networks following multi-actor approaches
FARMWELL (101000797) - Improving farmers' wellbeing through social innovation
NETPOULSAFE (101000728) - Networking European poultry actors for enhancing the compliance of biosecurity measures for a sustainable production
R4D (101000770) - Resilience For Dairy
SmaRT (101000471) - Small Ruminant Technology - Precision Livestock Farming and Digital Technology for Small Ruminants
Blue Growth
NAUTILOS (101000825) - New Approach to Underwater Technologies for Innovative, Low-cost Ocean obServation
TechOceanS (101000858) - Technologies for Ocean Sensing
- Publication date
- 28 September 2020
- Author
- European Research Executive Agency
- Location
- Brussels