Listing of Actual EU and Horizon 2020 Projects
A list and a short description of most of agro-food-related thematic networks in Horizon 2020. In more than 80% of all agro-food-related thematic networks you can contact EUFRAS members.
Overview over Erasmus+ projects related to agriculture can be found here!
| Topic | Project | Description | Duration |
| Soils | iSQAPER | Interactive Soil Quality Assessment in Europe and China for Agricultural Productivity and Environmental Resilience. Knowledge regarding the complex interplay between agricultural land use and management and soil quality and function is fragmented and incomplete, in particular with regard to underlying principles and regulating mechanisms. The main aim of iSQAPER is to develop an interactive soil quality assessment tool (SQAPP) for agricultural land users that integrates newly derived process understanding and accounts for the impact of agricultural land use and management on soil properties and functions, and related ecosystem services. | 05/2015-04/2020 |
| LANDMARK | LANDMARK aims to open up the soils of Europe and assess farm practices and policies that optimise the delivery of food and other ecosystem services; and also to bring together all the knowledge on land management from European farmers, advisors, scientists and policy makers. | 05/2015-10/2019 | |
| SOILCARE | If European crop production is to remain competitive while reducing environmental impacts, then the development and uptake of effective soil-improving cropping systems is required. The overall aim of SoilCare is to identify and evaluate promising soil improving cropping systems and agronomic techniques increasing profitability and sustainability across scales in Europe. | 03/2016-02/2021 | |
| DiverIMPACTS | The overall goal of DiverIMPACTS - Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted with Actors and value-Chains towards Sustainability - is to achieve the full potential of diversification of cropping systems for improved productivity, delivery of ecosystem services and resource-efficient and sustainable value chains. | 06/2017-05/2022 | |
| BEST4SOILS | The BEST4SOIL project will build a community of practice network across Europe by inter-connecting growers, advisers, educators and researchers. Through this network, knowledge ready for practice on 4 best practices for the control of soilborne diseases (compost/organic amendments; green manures/cover crops; anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD); and (bio)solarisation) will be promoted. | 10/2018-09/2021 | |
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Organic farming |
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The overall aim of the thematic network ‘OK-Net Arable’ is to improve the exchange of innovative and traditional knowledge among farmers, farm advisers and scientists to increase productivity and quality in organic arable cropping all over Europe, in order to satisfy future market demand. |
03/2015-02/2018
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| LIVSEEED | The project helps to establish a level playing field in the organic seed market across Europe, improve the competitiveness of the organic seed and breeding sector, and encourage greater use of organic seeds by farmers. | 06/2017-05/2021 | |
| RELACS | ‘Replacement of Contentious Inputs in Organic Farming Systems’ will foster the development and facilitate the adoption of cost-efficient and environmentally safe tools and technologies, to phase out the dependency on and use of inputs considered contentious in organic farming systems. | 05/2018-04/2022 | |
| OK-Net EcoFeed | The overall aim of OK-Net EcoFeed is to help farmers, breeders and the organic feed processing industry in achieving the goal of 100% use of organic and regional feed for monogastrics, in particular pigs, broilers, laying hens and parents of broilers and laying hens. | 01/2018-12/2020 | |
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Water, environment, nutrients and waste |
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In European countries, the cultivation of fertigated crops experience scarcity of water, and the intensity of cultivation poses significant risks to water quality. The main objective of the FERTINNOWA thematic network is to create a meta-knowledge database on innovative technologies and practices for fertigation of horticultural crops. |
01/2016-12/2018
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The objective of FAIRWAY is to review approaches for protection of drinking water resources against pollution by pesticides and nitrate, and to identify and further develop innovative measures and governance approaches for a more effective drinking water protection. | 06/2017-05/2021 | |
| WATERPROTECT | High-quality, safe, and sufficient drinking water is essential for life: we use it for drinking, food preparation and cleaning. Agriculture is the biggest source of pesticides and nitrate pollution in European fresh waters. The overarching objective of WATERPROTECT is to contribute to effective uptake and realisation of management practices and mitigation measures to protect drinking water resources. | 06/2017-05/2020 | |
| SolACE | The goal of SolACE - Solutions for improving Agroecosystem and Crop Efficiency for water and nutrient use - is to help European agriculture face major challenges, notably increased rainfall variability and reduced use of N and P fertilizers for both economic and ecological purposes. | 05/2017-04/2022 | |
| SUWANU EUROPE | SUWANU EUROPE is based on a previous project of water treatment in Europe called SuWaNu: Sustainable Water treatment and Nutrient reuse options, which consisted in developing strategies based on water reuse projects to solve problems such as the scarcity or the availability of nutrients. However, SUWANU EUROPE has been conceived not only as an extension of former SuWaNu project activities but also as the creation of a new instrument based on an existing network to accelerate the uptake of research results in the field of water reuse in agriculture and water innovation in Europe. | 01/2019-06/2021 | |
| EFFECT | Environmental public goods From Farming through Effective Contract Targeting - will develop and pilot a theoretically well-founded and empirically well-adapted package of new contractual frameworks. This will enable farmers to reconcile agricultural production with enhanced delivery of environmental and climate public goods and services to the benefit of society at large. | 05/2019-04/2023 | |
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Agricultural innovantion / networks |
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The project name reflects the overall aim of this project: to strengthen support systems in creating space for innovating farmers. Innovative farmers are everywhere, but their environment determines the rate of success. The project aims to create more space for innovations, through amplifying good examples of innovation support systems and through multi-actor learning about ways to stimulate innovation and remove obstacles. |
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PROIntensAfrica intends to develop a proposal for a long term research and innovation partnership between Europe and Africa, focusing on the improvement of the food and nutrition security and the livelihoods of African farmers by exploring and exploiting the diversity of pathways to sustainable intensification of African agro-food systems. | ||
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Deployment of High Pressure and Temperature Food Processing for Sustainable, Safe and Nutritious Food With Fresh-Like Quality. |
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Valerie is a EU FP7 project which is coming to a close. It has developed as one of its deliverables a virtual adviser portal supported by a huge compendium of fact sheets and scientific publications. The portal can be accessed through the soon to be launched Ask Valerie portal. | ||
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ReMIX is a H2020 multi-actor project that will allow designing cropping systems based on agro-ecology for the benefit of farmers and the whole EU agricultural community. ReMIX will exploit the benefits of species mixtures to design more diversified and resilient agro-ecological arable cropping systems. Based on a multi-actor approach, ReMIX will produce new knowledge that is both scientifically credible and socially valuable in conventional and organic agriculture. | 05/2017-04/2021 | |
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Participatory project, open to the engagement of stakeholders in the pulse and legume industry in Europe. The objectives of LEGVALUE are; to define platforms for change that can help deliver greater EU self-sufficiency in vegetable protein production; to identify opportunities for innovation, adding value to markets and all participants in the value chains and; to recognise opportunities to influence change, be they at commercial, research or at policy level. | 06/2017-05/2021 | |
| AFINET |
Agroforestry is a type of climate-smart agriculture practice of deliberately integrating woody vegetation (trees or shrubs) with crop and/or animal systems to benefit from the resulting ecological and economic interactions. |
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| CERERE |
CERERE aims at sustaining and promoting innovative approaches emerging in Europe from a multitude of practices adopted to introduce and manage agrobiodiversity in cereal production. These innovations are rooted in local traditions, knowledge and food culture. |
11/2016-10/2019 | |
| Inno4grass |
Inno4Grass is the acronym for „Shared Innovation Space for Sustainable Productivity of Grasslands in Europe”, an international and multi-actor project gathering prominent farmers‘ organizations, extension services, education and research institutions from eight EU countries in which grasslands have a considerable share in the agricultural area and where production of dairy, beef and sheep is of major economic imprortance. |
01/2017-12/2019 | |
| SKIN |
SKIN is an ambitious initiative in the domain of Short Food Supply Chain, which aims to systematize the existing knowledge, fostering demand-driven innovation, building long-term collaboration among European farmers and cooperatives, facilitate stakeholders engagement and promote innovation through demand-driven research in the short food supply chain domain. |
11/2016-10/2019 | |
| PLAID |
The PLAID project (Peer-to-peer Learning: Accessing Innovation through Demonstration) is an European Union funded project under Horizon 2020, starting in January 2017 and running until July 2019. The project has been designed to encourage farmers and farm employees to embrace innovations in agriculture, leading to a greater sustainability of European Agriculture, by accessing high quality demonstration activities on commercial farms. |
01/2017-06/2019 | |
| HENNOVATION |
Using the laying hen sector as a case study, the Hennovation project demonstrated the potential of innovation led by farmers and industry practices in two areas of concern, Injurious Pecking and End-of-Lay, during transport and at the abattoir. |
01/2015-08/2017 | |
| NEFERTITI | NEFERTITI is a unique project that establishes 10 interactive thematic networks and bring together 45 regional clusters (hubs) of demo-farmers and the involved actors (advisors, NGOs, industry, education, researchers and policy makers) in 17 countries. NEFERTITI focuses on creating added value from the exchange of knowledge, actors, farmers and technical content over the networks in order to boost innovation uptake, to improve peer to peer learning and network connectivity between farms actors across Europe, thus contributing to a more competitive, sustainable and climate-smart agriculture. | 01/2018-12/2021 | |
| NEWBIE | The NEWBIE Network (New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience in European agriculture) has been designed to address the significant challenge of enabling new entrants to successfully establish sustainable farm businesses in Europe. The NEWBIE network will facilitate the development and dissemination of new business models, including new entry models, to the full range of new entrants - from successors to complete newcomers to the agricultural sector. | 01/2018-12/2021 | |
| DISARM | The DISARM thematic network (Disseminating Innovative Solutions for Antibiotic Resistance Management) is focused on disseminating best practices from innovative farms and research on how to reduce antibiotic resistance in livestock farming. | 01/2019-12/2021 | |
| INNOSETA | The main objective of INNOSETA is to set up an Innovative self-sustainable Thematic Network on Spraying Equipment, Training and Advising to contribute in closing the gap between the available novel high-end crop protection solutions -either commercial or from applicable research results- with the everyday European agricultural practices. | 05/2018-04/2021 | |
| RustWatch |
Develop faster and more efficient diagnostic methods to track new rust races and genotypes, to use them to investigate population genetic changes in Europe and the role of pathogen aggressiveness and temperature adaptation as epidemic drivers in the face of changes in agriculture and the global climate. |
05/2018-04/2022 | |
| SuperPests | The overarching objective of the SuperPests project is to develop and evaluate a suite of innovative products, tools and concepts, and integrate these with existing approaches using data driven mathematical models, to achieve effective and sustainable Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of the “super pests”, thereby reducing the use of pesticides in the fruit and vegetable sectors. | 09/2018-08/2022 | |
| RURALIZATION | The project is thought to create the conditions to increase the attractiveness of rural areas for the new generations. From this focus, the project is looking for innovative practices that improve rural jobs and opportunities. | 05/2019-04/2023 | |
| PoliRural | Changes in rural areas, such as depopulation, land abandonment and the loss of biodiversity, may proceed very slowly yet are often irreversible. Policymakers can steer these developments in order to reduce their negative impacts but this requires knowing whether current policy instruments are effective, who is benefiting from them and in what measure, what driving forces will be most influential and how they will affect people, planet, profits and land-use. | 06/2019-05/2022 | |
| ENABLING | The main goal is to support the spreading of best practices and innovation in the provision (production, pre-processing) of biomass for the BBI (Bio-Based Industry). In particular, ENABLING aims at creating appropriate conditions for the development of efficient biomass to BBPs (Bio-Based Products and Processes) value chains. | 12/2017-11/2020 | |
| FOX | Innovative down-scaled FOod processing in a boX. | 06/2019-11/2023 | |
| SmartAgriHubs | The project aims to realise the digitisation of European agriculture by fostering an agricultural innovation ecosystem dedicated to excellence, sustainability and success. | 11/2018-10/2022 | |
| AgriLink | Agricultural Knowledge: Linking farmers, advisors and researchers to boost innovation - aims to stimulate sustainability transitions in European agriculture through better understanding the roles played by farm advice in farmer decision-making. | 06/2017-05/2021 | |
| LIAISON | LIAISON aims to make a significant and meaningful contribution to optimising interactive innovation project approaches and the delivery of EU policies to speed up innovation in agriculture, forestry and rural areas. | 06/2018-11/2021 | |
| FAIRshare | Electronic data generation, analytics and communication technologies potentially enable more accurate, faster and better decision-making on farms, with huge potential to improve agricultural sustainability. This CSA will engage, enable and empower the independent farm advisor community, through sharing of tools, expertise and motivations. | 11/2018-10/2023 | |
| EURAKNOS | Connecting Thematic Networks as Knowledge Reservoirs: towards a European Agricultural Knowledge Innovation Open Source System: will boost compiling of knowledge ready for practice by intensifying interaction between various agri-food or forestry networks thereby maximising outputs for practitioners. | 01/2019-12/2020 | |
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Biomass /bioressources/agricultural waste/bioenergy |
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Communicate and Bridge BioEconomy Resear ch to Business The overall objective of the CommBeBiz project is to contribute to the improvement of sustainable living conditions through the most effective and responsible use of our biological resources. | |
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The aim of greenGain is to strengthen the energy use of regional and local biomass from the maintenance of areas and landscape elements, which is performed in the public interest. The scope of the biomass used, will be any material predominantly produced from nature conservation and landscape management, but not from energy-crops. | ||
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AGRIFORVALOR will close the research and innovation divide by connecting practitioners from agriculture and forestry with research and academia as well as with associations and clusters, bio - industry, policy makers; business support organisations, innovation agencies and technology transfer intermediaries in multi-actor innovation partnership networks in order to valorize and exploit sidestream biomass resources from agriculture and forestry. |
03/2016-08/2018 | |
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A thematic network to design the penetration PAth of Non-food Agricultural Crops into European Agriculture. PANACEA aims to set up a thematic network to foster the effective exchange between research, industry and the farming community so that direct applicable solutions are widely disseminated and grassroots-level needs and innovative ideas thoroughly captured in order to design the penetration path of NFC into European agriculture. | 11/2017-10/2020 | |
| Circular Agronomics | The broader objective of Circular Agronomics is to facilitate a development towards smart, sustainable, resilient and inclusive economies that are part of circular and zero-waste societies. | 09/2018-08/2022 | |
| MAGIC | MAGIC aims towards the development of resource-efficient and economically profitable industrial crops to be grown on marginal land. In the long term, this strategy will foster the sustainable development of the EU bio-based economy and will contribute to achieving EU energy and climate targets. | 07/2017-06/2021 | |
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Agricultural management |
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The aim of the project is to reduce nitrogen losses from livestock production by promoting the use of slurry acidification techniques in the Baltic Sea Region and thus to mitigate eutrophication of the Baltic Sea waters. |
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SmartAKIS is an H2020 project which has rapidly gathered a very useful database of digital technologies related to the agriculture sector. The database is heavily populated with potential solutions to lots of agronomic, environmental and supply chain issues aimed at farmers, advisers, researchers and ICT professionals. You should register and see what’s there and submit your own technology adding to the 1,200 technologies already entered on the database. |
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Integrated weed management (IWM) is the way to go for sustainable and resilient agriculture. IWMPRAISE is a Horizon 2020 project that will support and promote the implementation of IWM in Europe. The project aims to demonstrate that IWM supports more sustainable cropping systems that are resilient to external impacts and do not jeopardise profitability or the steady supply of food, feed and biomaterials. | 06/2017-05/2022 | |
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Through a multi-actor approach, EUFRUIT aims to improve the implementation of research outcomes into practical and applicable knowledge that will directly benefit the European fruit sector. |
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The overall aim of AgriDemo-F2F is to enhance peer-to-peer learning within the commercial farming community. The project will utilize the experience of different actors and involve practitioner partners throughout the project to deepen understanding of effective on farm demonstration activities (multi-actor approach). |
01/2017-06/2019 | |
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HNV-Link creates a community of practice and knowledge by linking 10 areas throughout the European Union where HNV farming systems are prevalent. These “learning areas” are used to evaluate innovation examples and gaps relevant to HNV systems. Innovation types include technical, commercial, social, institutional, and of policy. |
04/2016-03/2019 | |
| NUTRIMAN | NUTRIMAN is a Nitrogen and Phosphorus Thematic network compiling knowledge of “ready-for-practice” recovered bio-based fertiliser technologies, products, applications and practices for the interest and benefit of agricultural practitioners. The project focuses on connecting market competitive and commercially “ready for practice” innovative results drawn from high research maturity applied scientific programmes and common industrial practices. | 10/2018-03/2021 | |
| TRUE | The project "TRansition paths to sUstainable legume based systems in Europe" is a balanced practice-research partnership of 24 institutions, which aims to identify the best routes, or “transition paths” to increase sustainable legume cultivation and consumption across Europe. | 04/2017-03/2021 | |
| PoshBee | PoshBee aims to support healthy bee populations, sustainable beekeeping and pollination across Europe. Integrating the knowledge and experience of academics, beekeepers and farmers. | 06/2018-05/2023 | |
| SUPER-G | The overall objective of the SUPER-G project is to co-develop sustainable PG systems and policies with farmers and policy makers that will be effective in optimising productivity, whilst supporting biodiversity and delivering a number of other ES. | 06/2018-05/2023 | |
| NUTRI2CYCLE | NUTRI2CYCLE will use an integrated approach to enable the transition from the current (suboptimal) nutrient household in European agriculture to the next-generation of agronomic practices, characterized by an improved upcycling of nutrients and organic carbon. | 10/2018-09/2022 | |
| Legumes Translated | The overall aim of Legumes Translated is to increase the production and use of grain legume crops as part of a European Protein Transition.[1] For change that matters to society, grain legume production must increase and contribute to ‘mainstream’ food and feed value chains. | 11/2018-10/2021 | |
| OPTIMA | The Project “Optimised Pest Integrated Management to precisely detect and control plant diseases in perennial crops and open-field vegetables” will develop an environmentally friendly IPM framework for vineyards, apple orchards and carrots by providing a holistic integrated approach which includes all critical aspects related to integrated disease management. | 09/2018-12/2021 | |
| IPM Decisions | The project accelerate impact from farm Decision Support Systems (DSS) for IPM, as advocated in the Sustainable Use Directive. The impact of DSS in crop protection has been constrained by regional and sectoral fragmentation of actors, inadequate testing of DSS and quantification of their benefits, DSS addressing single pests whilst farmer decisions need to account for multiple pests, and DSS which are insufficiently risk-averse. | 06/2019-05/2024 | |
| STARGATE | STARGATEs (reSilienT fARminG by Adaptive microclimaTe managEment) contribution beyond state-of-the-art in applied climatic data solutions is the implementation of analytics models to support local and regional policy formulation and implementation related to mitigation on microclimate changes. | 10/2019-09/2023 | |
| IoF2020 | The IoF2020 project is dedicated to accelerate adoption of IoT for securing sufficient, safe and healthy food and to strengthen competitiveness of farming and food chains in Europe. It will consolidate Europe’s leading position in the global IoT industry by fostering a symbiotic ecosystem of farmers, food industry, technology providers and research institutes. | 01/2017-12/2020 | |
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Animal husbandry |
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The 4D4F thematic network is a consortium of 15 partners from 9 European countries working together to promote the use on new sensor technologies to facilitate improved decision making on European dairy farms. The project improves productivity, animal welfare and the uptake of digital technologies in the farming community. The sensor technologies that are available to dairy farmers are really exciting. They go on, in and near animals and monitor their wellbeing and behaviour. |
03/2016-02/2019 |
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EuroDairy is a new international network to increase the economic, social and environmental sustainability of dairy farming in Europe, at a time of unprecedented challenge for the sector. The project adopts the interactive model of the European Innovation Partnership, putting farmers at the centre of practice-based innovation, adapting and developing new and existing scientific knowledge to produce implementable solutions, which can then be shared across the network. |
02/2016-01/2019 | |
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EU PiG is a network of 19 organisations across 13 member states. Led by AHDB in the UK, the partners range from pig producer groups, to researchers and economic advisers – connecting pig producers with the latest science, husbandry techniques and technologies. It facilitates knowledge exchange and sharing of innovative best practice on farm across Europe. |
11/2016-10/2020 | |
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Sheep meat and milk production are very important farm enterprises in Europe and neighbouring countries. In Europe there are 85 million animals on 830 000 farms. However the industry has been in decline and since 2000 the numbers of producers in the EU have declined by 50%. SheepNet will provide many opportunities to improve productivity and thus profitability. |
11/2016-10/2019 | |
| GenTORE | GenTORE tackle the issue of developing large-scale phenotyping of resilience and efficiency in both dairy and beef cattle. | 06/2017-05/2022 | |
| SMARTER | The overall goal is to phenotypically and genetically characterise and understand novel related traits, ii) to improve and develop new genomic prediction techniques, and iii) to establish new breeding and management strategies that include those novel resilience and efficiency-related traits according to their importance and relevance to various systems, breeds and environments. | 11/2018-10/2022 |