2nd co-funded call 2024 (closed)
“Integrating environmental, economic and social perspectives in assessing the performance of agroecology. Value-chain and policy implications”
This call focuses on the performance of agroecology, under different aspects: evaluating this performance in its various dimensions, quantifying environmental impacts, transforming value chains, and contributing to the design of public policies to better support the transition.
Objectives
Topic 1: Determine and assess benefits/impacts and trade-offs of agroecology, and identify best practices
Topic 2: Transform value chains, business models and policies to facilitate the transition to agroecology
Research and Innovation (R&I) proposals shall apply the multi-actor approach and exhibit co-creation and co-implementation structures, via Living Labs or initiatives following the Living Lab approach.
This call for research and innovation projects addresses a transition to agroecology in the context of both conventional and organic farming systems.
The Partnership will fund R&I projects, which contribute to the scope of the call either by developing new methods, approaches, perspectives and technologies or by providing analyses on agroecology’s sustainability dimensions.
Timeline and Submission Procedure
Webinar for applicants: 13 December 2024, 09:00 – 12:00 CET
Deadline pre-proposals: 17 February 2025, 2 PM CET
Deadline full proposals: 9 JULY 2025, 2 PM CEST
The co-funded call is conducted as a two-step-procedure. As a first step, a pre-proposal has to be submitted. If this pre-proposal is successful, the Coordinator receives an invitation to submit a full proposal. Only following such an invitation, a full proposal can be submitted. Proposals that are not submitted on time within the submission platform will not be considered and rejected.
For detailed guidance on each step and call documents, please refer to the submission website: https://agroecology.ptj.de.
Successful proposals shall contribute to the following outcomes
- Practical-oriented knowledge, tools and/or innovations available to farmers and the sector, contributing to the uptake of agroecological practices at local, regional and national scales.
- Increased knowledge, knowledge transfer and capacity of farmers and agricultural advisors to implement agroecological practices.
- Increased socio-economic and/or environmental performance of agroecological approaches.
- Enhanced science-policy interfaces serving to facilitate a faster transition to agroecology.
Funding countries
Currently, 29 Funders from 20 different countries provide funds to this call and altogether form the Funder Board.
More details on the Funder regulations of the 2nd co-funded call can be found in Annex IX on the submission website.
Status: December 2024
Selected projects
| AF4VALUE | Innovations in value chains to promote farming viability through agroforestry |
| AGRI-TASC | Agricultural Transition and Sustainability through Assessment, Scenarios and Collaboration |
| AgroPolis | Promoting AGROecology through co-creating value chain innovations and improved multi-level POLIcieS in a beyond-growth Europe |
| ALL TOGETHER | Agroecological Living Labs To Gather Experiences for the Transition of Horticulture through Education and Research |
| BIO-CROP | Bio-Based Agroecosystem Transitions in the Baltic and Nordic Regions through Integrated Relay Cropping Systems |
| DairyPathS | Agroecological Pathways for Sustainable, resilient and diversified Dairy farming systems in Europe assisted by multicriteria assessment |
| ECOFLOURISH | ENHANCING HORTICULTURE WITH SMART INNOVATION |
| EcoGAP | Contributions of ecosystem services delivered by agro-ecological practices to narrow gaps in yield and resource use efficiency |
| EcoGreation | Ecological greenhouse diversification with multifunctional plants |
| EMCOCLIM-VITI | Emerging Cool Climate Wine Regions: AgroEcological viticulture |
| EMPOWERALL | Empowering Young Farmers to Coordinate Agrifood Transformations through Engaged Research Infrastructures and Agroecological Living Labs |
| FRUGALL | Fertilizing Rural-Urban Grids through Agroecology Living Labs to enhance sustainable food system transitions |
| GBR-ACT | Green Biorefineries as Catalysts for Agroecological Transitions and Circular Value Chains |
| MultiCAS | Multi-dimensional performance assessment of complex agroecological systems |
| REAGRY | Agroecological Transitions Rooted in Tradition for Climate Resilience |
| Root2Fork | Accelerating the agroecological transition with multi-strata agroforestry systems, from root to fork |
| SAGE | Sustainable Agrivoltaic Grazing Ecosystem: Agroecological Synergies through Ruminant Integration for Enhanced Environmental and Economic Benefits |
| TRANSATION | TowaRds Agroecological farmiNg Systems for innovATION and sustainability |
| UNMEASURED | Measuring the Unmeasurable – Integrating values that resist quantification in agroecology assessment frameworks |
Contact
Call office: ptj-agroecology-call-office@fz-juelich.de (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)