Pre-Announce­ment of 2^nd FACCE SUR­PLUS Call for proposals

The Joint Pro­gram­ming Ini­ti­at­ive on Agri­cul­ture, Food Secur­ity and Cli­mate Change (FACCE-JPI) brings togeth­er 22 coun­tries that are com­mit­ted to build­ing an integ­rated European Research Area address­ing the inter­con­nec­ted chal­lenges of sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture, food secur­ity and impacts of cli­mate change. In the frame of the ERA-NET Cofund FACCE SUR­PLUS (Sus­tain­able and Resi­li­ent agri­cul­ture for food and non-food sys­tems), the part­ner organ­isa­tions lis­ted in the table here­un­der will launch a call for pro­pos­als.

Aim and scope of the call

The present call for pro­pos­als aims to improve col­lab­or­a­tion and cooper­a­tion across the European Research Area in the area of sus­tain­able intens­i­fic­a­tion of food and non-food bio­mass pro­duc­tion and decent­ral­ised trans­form­a­tion sys­tems, in par­tic­u­lar small scale multi-input, multi-product biore­finery con­cepts. It aims as well at sup­port­ing loc­al innov­a­tion and value cre­ation from bio­mass and biore­finer­ies in syn­ergy with the envir­on­ment­ally sus­tain­able intens­i­fic­a­tion of bio­mass pro­duc­tion tak­ing into account the required eco­nom­ic, envir­on­ment­al and social con­di­tions and resi­li­ence to cli­mate change. Strong syn­er­gies between agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion and the food and processing/​chemical industry are required for any biore­finery concept, there­fore the inclu­sion of both pro­duc­tion and trans­form­a­tion sec­tors is essen­tial.

Eli­gib­il­ity

The call invites pro­pos­als for col­lab­or­at­ive research and devel­op­ment of transna­tion­al con­sor­tia of research organ­isa­tions and com­pan­ies from at least 2 coun­tries par­ti­cip­at­ing in the call. The dur­a­tion of pro­posed pro­jects may be up to 36 months. Nation­al eli­gib­il­ity rules, includ­ing the poten­tial eli­gib­il­ity of the private sec­tor, e.g. SMEs, must be fol­lowed and will be pub­lished togeth­er with the call text on the FACCE SUR­PLUS web­site. Non-eli­gible part­ners may join at their own expense. Source: FACCE SUR­PLUS web­site: www​.fac​ce​sur​plus​.org