Organization

Brief description of the organization

PtJ is a German research agency (Projektträger) within the Research Centre Jülich (JUELICH; organisation short name used in proposal) which undertakes the management of R&D and innovation programmes of various contractors representing the national government; mainly the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (BMWA), the Federal Ministry for Environment (BMU). PtJ´s Division for Biological Innovation and Economic (BIO) is responsible for the administration of all funding in the context of the National Research Strategy BioEconomy2030. For that purpose, JÜLICH is formally authorised (beliehen) by the Ministry to conduct all tasks related to the programme management i.e. launch of calls, evaluation as well as contractual and financial administration. PtJ allocates and distributes financial resources exclusively from the federal governmental budget on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in accordance with requirements of national research funding. Beyond this, JUELICH assists the Ministry in planning, analysing, updating and evaluating/monitoring the programme as well as in supporting dissemination and exploitation of results and governing issues. It also hosts several national contact points (NCP) for the 7th Research Framework Programme of the EU, among others for the thematic priority Life Sciences, Genomics, and Biotechnology for Health.
Website: http://www.ptj.de

Consortium

Role in the Consortium

JUELICH is the Coordinator of the Consortium (Leader of Work Package 5 Coordination and Management).

Staff involved will also give input to WP1, WP2, WP3 and WP4.

Staff

Staff involved in the Coordination and Support Action

Rolf Stratmann

Hanna Steffens

Sergi Costa

Activities

Relevant (previous) activities

• JUELICH administrates the international co-operations of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research in the thematic field of bioeconomy.
• JUELICH is partner in several Collaborative Working groups of SCAR in the context of bioeconomy (e.g. on biomass production and bio-industry).
• JUELICH contributes to the Service Point of EIP-Agri.
• PtJ´s Division for Biological Innovation and Economic (BIO) is responsible for the administration of all funding in the context of the National Research Strategy BioEconomy2030.
• Partner in FP7 PLATFORM: as Communication Manager JUELICH leads the WP on communication. Furthermore JUELICH contributes to all WPs by providing information and sharing its experience.
• JUELICH is partner in several ERA-NET actions in KBBE (e.g. ETB PRO, SUSFOOD, ERA-IB II, ANIHWA) and coordinator of (ERASYS-APP, ERASynBio).
• JUELICH acts as call secretariat for several joint activities under FACCE-JPI.
• JUELICH hosts the National Contact Point for the Societal Challenge 2 of Horizon 2020 (Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy) and for the Biotechnology theme in the Programme: Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies.

Organization

Brief description of the organization

Stichting Wageningen Research (WR) is formed by different research institutes specialised in areas such as crop sciences, life-stock, economics, environment, food, lifestyle, marine, bio-based production, and food safety. These institutes carry out strategic, application-oriented and field-based research. They are commissioned by the government, commercial businesses and non-profit organisations. Collaboration is also pursued with universities and/or other national or international organisations. WR has an annual turnover of M€ 330 and employs about 2500 persons (both figures for 2014). WR is authorized by the Ministry of Economic Affairs for various SCAR related activities, including the participation in SFS-25-2016: Support Action to a common agricultural and wider bioeconomy research agenda (CASA).

Wageningen Research (WR) forms with the Wageningen University (WU) one organisation: Wageningen University and Research (WUR). WR and WU are two independent legal entities, but in terms of content, objectives and activities they are aligned both at the strategic and tactical levels within the Wageningen University and Research cooperative arrangement. This international research and knowledge centre focusses specifically on the theme 'healthy food and living environment'. The combination of state of the art knowledge, expertise and experiences enables WUR to work through its international networks in many countries all over the world.

WUR aims to address complex issues such as ecological sustainability, public health and a robust food supply using interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, through networks of cooperation between knowledge institutes, development organisations, policy makers and private sector parties. WUR is especially strong in the bioeconomy and environment domains and participated in over 500 FP7 projects, 100+ as coordinator. After two years of H2020, WUR participated in 112 projects from which 32 as coordinator. Corporate Strategy & Accounts, one of WR’s departments, is responsible for strategy development, national and international relation- and account management, coordination of research and innovation programmes, grants and tender support, communication and visits.

Website: http://www.wur.nl

Consortium

Role in the Consortium

WR is the leader of WP1 Representativeness. WR’s staff members also contribute to WP2, WP3 and WP5 and give input to all other Work Packages.

Staff

Staff involved in the Coordination and Support Action

Christine Bunthof

Dorri te Boekhorst

Brenda Kuźniar-van der Zee

Annemarie Groot

Floor Geerling-Eiff

Activities

Relevant previous projects and activities

• Contact and information point on P2P partnerships (joint programming, ERA-NETs, EJP, and European and national context, as part of the services of Wageningen corporate (www.jointprogramming.nl).
• performed the foresight study on the future of AKIS : Chapter 6 in the SCAR SWG AKIS-3 report AKIS towards the future: a foresight paper, 2016.
• ERA-PG. Christine Bunthof was the project manager for nearly the full duration of the ERA-NET on Plant Genomics (2004-2010). Brenda Kuzniar was communication assistent for two years. During that time many contacts (consultation, exchange of information and experience) with colleagues of NWO involved in other ERA-Nets, and active participation to bi-annual meetings on ERA-Nets held at NWO and at the former ministry of agriculture.
• PLATFORM. The Platform of Bioeconomy ERA-NET Actions () is coordinated by Christine Bunthof. Brenda Kuzniar supports management and communication. Under the CSA projects FP7 PLATFORM (2011-2014) and H2020 PLATFORM (2015-2018) the initiative organised/organises activities that gather the practicioners in public-to-public partnerships in networking, mutual learning and strategic coordination accross the bioeconomy.
• Database of ERA-NETs and production of the book Bioeconomy ERA-NET Actions - European Research Area Networks of the 6^th and 7^th Framework Programmes, 185 pp. Conception and coordination PLATFORM Office with contributions by ERA-NET coordinators, and published by the EC Communication Services (2014).
• SAHYOG (FP7 CSA) - a networking project for paving the way for a sustainable European-Indian cooperation in the field of biomass production and bio-waste conversion. As project participant involved in developing a Strategic Research Agenda, and in twinning events, and organisation of exchange visits between Europe and India.
• FACCE-JPI. Christine Bunthof was in FACCE-CSA a WP leader, in charge of the mapping and foresight activities including organisation of five thematic international workshops and one concluding event yielding prioritzed topics for FACCE’s first Implementation Plan. In the current CSA for the FACCE Secretariat the involvement is as WP leader in charge of alignment, as co-WP leader in charge of Interactions with other European initiative, and to support several implementation actions such as the Knowledge Network on Sustainable Intensification. Within the FACCE ERA-GAS the involvement of WR is as WP leader for interactions with FACCE and other initiatives, and for a long term strategy on mitigation and monitoring of greenhouse gases from agri- and silvi- culture, and in performing the communication and dissemination activities including conferences. In FACCE Secretariat and national activities three staff members of the Joint Programming team are substantially involved. Furthermore, the director of WI is in the FACCE Governing Board.
• CIRCLE 2 ERA-NET. Annemarie Groot was involved as a science-policy-practice expert in this ERA-NET on climate.
• Copernicus. Annemarie Groot was task leader in FP7 Climate Information Platform for Copernicus project. Currently, she is working in different Copernicus climate services projects in which she facilitates the co-creation of salient, legitimate and credible climate services.
• For the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
  
• The department CSA is involved in various global fora such as on European Agriculture (EURAGRI), agricultural research for development (FARA), Europe-Africa partnership on sustainable intensification of agriculture, and the Climate Smart Agriculture initiative.  The former unit Wageningen International (now part of Corporate Strategy & Accounts) coordinated the H2020 project ‘PROIntensAfrica’.

Organization

Brief description of the organization

The Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, as it is called in English, is a German institution under public law, directly subordinated to the Federal Government and empowered to conduct business on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).
The BLE fulfils a variety of tasks: Its mandate includes carrying out measures which strengthen agriculture, food production, fishery and forestry as well as rural areas.
In addition, the BLE acts as funding body for Research and Innovation and as programme manager for BMEL on national, European and international level in the field of agriculture and food production. Related programmes are the Federal Programme on Innovation, the Federal Organic Farming Scheme and a specific programme dedicated to transnational cooperation supporting initiatives like ERA-NETs and JPIs.
The BLE unit “European Research Affairs” has its focus on the coordination and collaboration towards ERA and is currently a partner in 12 ERA-NETs and two JPIs along the whole value added chain. The BLE is also member of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR) on behalf of BMEL.
Website: http://www.ble.de

Consortium

Role in the Consortium

 BLE will be in charge of leading work package 3 ‘Strengthening Strategic Advice’ and is responsible for tasks 3.1: Assess the state of play of research policy in the broader Bioeconomy’, as well as task 3.5 ‘Collect and prioritise ideas for future SCAR Foresight studies‘.
Furthermore, BLE will contribute to all work packages where it is stated and required.
As a programme manager for BMEL, BLE has extensive know-how in project management also on national level.

Staff

Staff involved in the Coordination and Support Action 

Elke Saggau

Johannes Bender

Vera Steinberg

Activities

Relevant previous projects and activities

• BLE has a long history in coordinating national and transnational programmes and projects in the field of the broader Bioeconomy
• BLE is active member of the Steering Group of the Standing Committee on Agriculture Research (SCAR)
• BLE is member of the Programme Committee ‘Challenge2’
• BLE is chair of the SCAR Foresight group, member of the AKIS group (Agriculture Knowledge Innovation Systems) and member of the Strategic Working Group on Biomass
• BLE is partner in several SCAR Working Groups in the context of bioeconomy (e.g. AKIS or Biomass)
• BLE leads and performs tasks in the CSAs of JPI FACCE and JPI HDHL
• BLE is the coordinator of the ERA-NET SusAn
• BLE is involved in filing applications for new ERA-NETs
• BLE is partner in several ERA-NET actions in KBBE (Core Organic, ICT Agri, FACCE ERA-NET plus, SUSFOOD, ANIHWA, COFASP, Sumforest, C-IPM, FACCE SURPLUS, ERA-HDHL, WaterWorks2015, ERA-GAS.
• BLE leads and performs various tasks in the mentioned ERA-NETS, e.g. contribution to mapping, monitoring and evaluation activities, Call Office
  

Organization

Brief description of the organization

Inside Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forestry (MAAF), the General Directorate for Education and Research (DGER) is in charge of commissioning the high schools and the bachelor and graduate education institutions in the fields related to agriculture, public research centres and associations of technical centres for improving synergies. DGER manages some programmes related to the French general regime of research financing, and it manages also specific funds uptaken from the overall business activity of the agricultural sector and attributed to innovation actions, called CASDAR.

The DGER is also in charge of SCAR activities at European and national level, the implementation of EIP in France and the implementation of the Societal Challenge 2 of Horizon 2020 in France.

Consortium

Role in the Consortium

MAAF/DGER is member of the consortium and is Work Package leader for WP4 Communication and Dissemination.

Staff

Staff involved in the Coordination and Support Action 

Pierre Grenier

Valérie Dehaudt

Corinne Bitaud

Activities

Relevant previous projects and activities

DGER is involved in the ERA-Nets Core Organic I, II, Plus and in the future Cofund as well in C-IPM.

In Core Organic DGER is in charge of dissemination of the results at European and national level and of assessing the impact of the Core Organic funded projects.

In addition to Core Organic the DGER has the experience of many CASDAR calls where dissemination of the project results is a priority.

Web site: http://agriculture.gouv.fr/developpement-agricole-et-rural-casdar

Organization

Brief description of the organization

The Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, (The Danish Agrifish Agency) has transferred the mandates for participation in SFS-25-2016: Support Action to a common agricultural and wider bioeconomy research agenda to Danish Centre for Food and Agriculture (DCA) which forms part of Faculty of Science and Technology at Aarhus University (AU).
DCA, established in 2011 within the University of Aarhus with the main task to manage the Ministry of Environment and Food’s program on science based polity advice.
DCA accomplishes, hereunder in collaboration with both private and public partners, a series of tasks, e.g.

• National and international research cooperation where DCA cooperates with research environments in order to encourage research co-operation, which is relevant to society.
• Research-based public-sector consultancy where DCA coordinates activities and contributes to the quality of national and international research-based public sector services within the fields of agriculture and food.
• Innovation and cooperation where DCA supports the cooperation of the research environments with companies, organizations, trade and industry.
• Knowledge exchange and communication where DCA disseminates the results of sector-related research and public-sector consultancy to authorities, companies, primary industries and other interested parties.

Website: http://www.dca.au.dk/en/

Consortium

Role in the Consortium

AU will be the Leader of Work Package 2 (Added Value and Improved Quality for Greater Impact). Staff involved will also give input to WP1, WP3, WP4 and WP5.

Staff

Staff involved in the Coordination and Support Action 

Vivi Hunnicke Nielsen

Inge Harbo

Alex Percy-Smith

Activities

Relevant previous projects and activities

•  Aarhus University, DCA is partner in several ERA-NET actions (e.g. coordinator of CORE Organic and participant in FACCE SURPLUS, C-IPM, and ERA-Net SusAn
• Aarhus University, DCA participate in the Governing Board in FACCE JPI
• Aarhus University, DCA is partner in PLATFORM of Knowledge Based Bioeconomy Relevant ERA-NETs contributing to the collaboration in the ERA-NETsWPs
• Aarhus University, DCA is partner in the SCAR Collaborative Working group in the context of sustainable animal production CWG-SusAn
• Aarhus University is chairing the advisory group contributing with recommendation to the H2020 Programme: Societal Challenge 2: Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy Aarhus University, DCA contributes to the Service Point of EIP-Agri

Organization

Brief description of the organization

Teagasc is a semi-state organization with a mission to support science-based innovation in the Irish agri-food sector and the broader bio-economy through research, education and training. On the research side, it has capabilities from farm to fork with wide ranging expertise including animal and crop production, genomics, microbiology, food science, bioinformatics, economics, sociology, geography, nutrition and market research. In addition to providing business and technology advice to approx. 45,000 farmer clients, it provides a range of training options to suit full and part-time farmers.

Staff

Staff involved in the Coordination and Support Action

Maeve Henchion

Laura Devaney

Activities

Relevant (previous) activities

• H2020 funding for “Communicate & Bridge Bioeconomy Research towards Business” known as CommBeBiz, Total budget €1.7 million
• National funding for “A Bio Economy for Ireland- An Evaluation of Development Opportunities, Policies and Initiatives Shaping Ireland’s Transformation to a Sustainable Low Carbon Bioeconomy, known as Bio-Éire, Totla budget, €300,000
• National funding for “Exploration of Irish meat processing streams for recovery of high value protein based ingredients for food and non-food uses” Known as ReValueProtein, Total budget €1.5 million
• National funding for “Genetic selection for improved milk and meat product quality in dairy, beef and sheep”, Known as BreedQuality. Total budget €1.2 million

Organization

Brief description of the organization

National Ministry of Health (MOH) with responsibility for the areas related to animal health, food and feed safety and animal welfare at national and international level including research planning and funding. All the above activities are set under the General Directorate for Animal Health and Veterinary Medicines (DGSFAV). The Directorate encompasses nine units, two of them responsible for research management and funding. Of interest, the DGSFAV is responsible for: animal health, animal identification, management of the National Centre for Animal Diseases Control and the Central Crisis Unit; animal welfare and animal reproduction; animal nutrition and feeding-stuffs; Veterinary Pharmaceutical Products (VMPs) and residues; import controls of animals and food of animal origin.
Besides, Ministry of Health is the central competent authority that coordinates and connects the activities of Istituti Zooprofilattici Sperimentali – IZSs that currently perform the 90% of research on Animal Health; it has the institutional role of research promoter in IZSs at national and international level; it drives the main research areas within the National Health Program and the directions from National Health Research Commettee, with a three-years based program on Animal Health, Food Safety and Animal Welfare; it defines and supports the IZSs financial needs; manages the National Reference Centres; it turns all the activities of IZSs in governmental actions (regulation, recommendation, etc).
Funds come from the Current research programme (Current Programme yearly funds Institutes with amounts of 10-15 M€) which is dedicated to applied research projects developed by the IZSs according the National Health Plan and given the strategy of research at territorial level.
MoH is backstopped for the international funded projects management, including the present one, by Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana
Website: http://www.salute.gov.it

Consortium

Role in the Consortium

Ministry of health will be the Task manager in the Work Package 3, Task 3.5 and contributor to Task 3.6. Staff involved will also give input to all Tasks in WP3 and WP2, WP4

Staff

Staff involved in the Coordination and Support Action

Silvio Borrello

Marina Bagni

Romano Zilli

Activities

Relevant previous projects and activities

MOH with the technical support of IZSLT, contributed in mapping of EU animal health research institution in ERAnet EMIDA, in building SRAs on animal health at EU level (ERAnet EMIDA), with a global perspective (ERAnet STARIDAZ, leader of WP5) and at Mediterranean level (FOREMed, Italy), in identifying criteria for priority setting and foresight methodologies for research (ERAnet STARIDAZ, Deliverables of WP5). MoH financed 5 transnational calls under several different ERAnets dealing with animal health and welfare summing up to 5 million Euros.
Ministry of Health in coordination with MIPAAF (Ministry of Agriculture) is represented in SCAR within three CWG dealing with animal health and welfare (CWG AHAW - as coordinator ; SWG Fish ; CWG SAP) ; in several ERAnets dealing with animal health issues (EMIDA ; ANIHWA ; STARIDAZ, SusAn) , in JPIs, in other ERAnets relevant for human medicine sector. And in the IRC STARIDAZ.
23.06.1970, n.503; D.lvo 30.12.1992 N. 502), nonprofit self governing body appointed with the task of providing technical and scientific support and assistance in veterinary and food safety policies and research within local, national and international governmental, FAO, EFSA, EU programmes (art.1, D.Lgs 30.06.1993, n.270).

Organization

Brief description of the organization

 The Ministry of Agricultural Food and Forestry Policies (MIPAAF) supports the agro-food and forestry sector through the governmental Programme in Agriculture, yearly issued, devoted to the development and sustainability of a competitive agricultural, agri-food and agroindustry sector, including promotion of research and innovation, the development of agri-food chains, protection and exploitation of typical and quality products and internationalization of enterprises, the implementation at national level of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The research and innovation projects funded through national and international activities are under the standing National Strategic Plan for innovation and research, contributing to align the research and rural development policies for the best agriculture development in the wide context of Bioeconomy.
MIPAAF is SCAR member and involved in many SWG and CWG also through experts from CREA (Italian Research Centre for Agriculture and Economic Analysis).
MIPAAF contributes to European Room Area (ERA) as partner in many actions (ERANET, JPI and CSA) aimed at the coordination in research and innovation and the definition of a common research agenda.
MIPAAF is also managing authority for National Rural Development Programme “National Rural Network”.
Website: http://www.politicheagricole.it

Consortium

Role in the Consortium

MIPAAF will be task leader in WP3 task 3.7 and will contribute mainly to task 3.1.
MIPAAF will act as contributor in WP2 task 2.2, task 2.5.
The MIPAAF contribution will be given also for WPs as member of SCAR WG and several SCAR groups.

Staff

Staff involved in the Coordination and Support Action

The Office responsible of the CSA activity will be Department of European and international policies and rural development – General Directorate Rural Development – Research and experimentation DISR4. All the listed persons with different role are involved in the various international actions for agriculture research coordination and cooperation in which MIPAAF - DISR IV is involved as an official partner/member. 

Stefano Grando

Serenella Puliga

Annalisa Zezza

Simona Cristiano

MIPAAF will be supported in the activities in CSA by CREA (Italian Research Centre for Agriculture and Economic Analysis) and its Department for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy. Experts related to the National Rural Development Network, in coherence with the innovation priority of the programme, will support the CSA activities.

Activities

Relevant previous projects and activities

• MIPAAF is SCAR member and partner partner in several Strategic Working Group and Collaborative Working groups of SCAR (i.e AKIS, ARCH, SCAR FISH, SGBG
• MIPAAF is partner in several ERA-NET and cofunder of joint activities
• MIPAAF is partner of JPI FACCE and HDHL and cofunder of several joint activities under these JPIs
• MIPAAF supports the national configuration for Horizon 2020 SC2 (Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy)
• MIPAAF is managing authority for National Rural Development Programme “National Rural Network”

Third parties involved

Third parties involved in the project (including use of third party resources)

For the financial administration and accounting of the EU contribution MIPAAF will make use of the Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari CIHEAM - IAMB (Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy), acting as third party on the basis of an agreement concluded between the parties. As previously applied in FP6, FP7 and H2020 coordinated actions participated by MIPAAF, due to the standing agreement, MIPAAF will authorize IAMB to make payments and perform any other duties related to the correct management of the resources of CASA, under Horizon 2020 accounting rules (third party providing in-kind contributions free of charge, according to art. 12 of AMGA, Annotated Model Grant Agreement)

Organization

Brief description of the organization

 The mission of the Own Capital of the Institute for Agriculture and Fisheries Research (short name in this project ILVO) consists of both performing and coordinating policy-supporting (aimed at the Flemish Region) scientific research and the associated public service in view of a sustainable agriculture and fishery in an economic, ecological and social perspective. Based on its different scientific research disciplines, ILVO builds up knowledge necessary for the improvement of products and production methods, for the monitoring and safeguarding the quality and safety of the end products and for the improvement of the policy instruments as a basis for the development of the sector and the agricultural policy of the rural area. ILVO is one of the founding partners of Agrolink Flanders.
Agrolink Flanders is a (new) collaboration platform of 18 Flemish research institutions and builds upon a vast quantity of knowledge and significant infrastructure. With 2 top-10 universities, a university college, and 14 knowledge, demonstration and trial centres, Agrolink Flanders provides answers to all questions related to sustainable animal and plant production. Multidisciplinary research, modern laboratory and farm equipment, a large land base (550 ha of experimental fields, 8 ha of experimental greenhouses, and 32000 m2 of animal housing), and strong expertise regarding a wide range of plants and animals, are the keys to our success.
As Agrolink Flanders is not yet recognized as a juridical entity, Agrolink Flanders will be participating through ILVO. Both EV ILVO and Agrolink are involved in several projects in the 7th Research Framework Programme of the EU and Horizon 2020.
Website: www.agrolink-vlaanderen.be and www.ilvo.vlaanderen.be

Consortium

Role in the Consortium

 EV ILVO will be the 3.3 Task Manager and will contribute to task 3.4

Staff

Staff involved in the Coordination and Support Action

Sylvia Burssens

Activities

Relevant (previous) activities

• EV ILVO has a long history of participating in international research projects, many of which were funded by EU’s Research Framework Programmes
• EV ILVO is partner in several Collaborative Working groups of SCAR in the context of bioeconomy (e.g. on biomass production and bio-industry).
• EV ILVO contributes to the Service Point of EIP-Agri.
• Agrolink Flanders is actively involved in several Horizon 2020 project proposals and in its first year of activities already 2 projects proposals (amongst which FERTINNOWA, CSA thematic network) have been granted.
• EV ILVO is partner in several ERA-NET actions in KBBE (e.g.SUSFOOD, ANIHWA).

Organization

Brief description of the organization

The INIAV is the R&D Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture. One of its missions is to provide technical and scientific input, consultancy and advisement in the agricultural and veterinary fields to support public policies. INIAV’s performance in areas such as Food Safety, Plant Health, Animal Health and Genetic Resources (preservation and conservation) can bring a both unique and fundamental contribution to the country’s development. Also, INIAV assists the Ministry in planning the national agricultural innovation strategy for policy making as well as in supporting dissemination and exploitation of results and governing issues. It also hosts the SC2 and AKIS delegates. INIAV is also mandated by the Ministry of Agriculture to manage specific agricultural R&D programs whenever available.
Website: www.iniav.pt

Consortium

Role in the Consortium

INIAV will be 4.4 Task Manager. Staff involved will also give input to WP3 and WP5..

Staff

Staff involved in the Coordination and Support Action 

José Matos

Carla Brites

Rui do Rosário

Activities

Relevant previous projects and activities

INIAV has a large experience as a partner in consortium projects with other European organizations.
FP7 partner during the past 3 years in the following projects:

• ERA – Net ARD II – The agricultural research for development dimension of the European Research Area;
• PROBIOLIVES - Table olive fermentation with selected strains of probiotic lactic acid bacteria. Towards a new functional food.
• REPHRAME - Development of Improved Methods for Detection, Control and Eradication of Pine Wood Nematode in Support of EU Plant Health Policy;
• Sustainable water use securing food production in dry areas of the Mediterranean region;
• EUPHRESCO II – European Phytosanitary Research Coordination. KBBE.2010.1.2-06: Deepened and enlarged cooperation between phytosanitary (statutory plant health) research programmes
• EUBERRY - The sustainable improvement of European berry production, quality and nutritional value in a changing environment: Strawberries, Currants, Blackberries, Blueberries and Raspberries
• Flock-Reprod - hormone-free-non-seasonal or seasonal goat reproduction for a sustainable European goat-milk market
• EUROLEGUME - Enhancing of legumes growing in Europe through sustainable cropping for protein supply for food and feed
• LEGATO - Legumes for the agriculture of tomorrow
• Implementing sustainable diets in Europe – SUSDIET
• SAFEMED - Food Safety Regulations, Market Access and International Competition
• IMPRESA - Impact of research on EU agriculture
• Epitrix (flea beetle) species, life cycles and detection method
• INTERREG-SUDOE in the past 3 years:  AGUA FLASH - Development of a method for risk assessment of water quality degradation in flooding regions, applicable to all the SUDOE region.