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Anders Wall Award for special contributions to the EU’s rural environment

A prize of €20,000 for private enterprises which have used quality instruments and management practices in an innovative way ...Read more

New EIP-AGRI Brochure on Horizon 2020 - 2018 calls

This new brochure will help you find your way through the different Horizon 2020 calls for 2018Read more

Apply to the Rushlight Awards for clean technologies and innovations

Apply before 30 November - latest clean technologies, innovations, programmes, installations and initiatives in a number of catagories including sustainable agriculture, forestry and biodiversity.Read more

BBI JU’s Stakeholder Forum

Registration is now open for BBI JU’s Stakeholder Forum on 7 December 2017 in BrusselsRead more

Apply to take on the role of a Digital Innovation Hub

The European Commission is looking for organisations to take on the role of a “Digital Innovation Hub” - apply by 7 NovemberRead more

Inspirational ideas: AgriSo – agriculture from soil to satellite

Ştefan Stănescu, a young farmer, and his cousin Mihai Stanescu, a student in IT, developed an app focusing on farmers' real needsRead more

Report: Digital Innovation Hubs- mainstreaming digital agriculture

Read the report from the EIP-AGRI seminar on digital innovation hubsRead more

Brochure on the “multi-actor approach”

Read the new EIP-AGRI brochure on Horizon 2020's multi-actor approachRead more

Inspirational ideas: Data-driven technologies increase Hungarian milk yields and milk quality

Dr. Gabor Salyi: “The PLF tool supports data driven decisions and provides me information on which rumen pH level my milk production, quality and herd health can be optimised.”Read more

Horizon 2020 InfoWeek on Societal challenge 2 - calls 2018

The day dedicated to digitising agriculture and food value chains will present many exciting examples for the sectorRead more

VIDEO AgriSo – agriculture from soil to satellite

Watch the AgriSo videoRead more

Cross-border cooperation projects

Estonia will open a call in December 2017, which will be dedicated to cross-border cooperation projects which can solve production-related challenges in agriculture, food and forestry through innovation. Support will...Read more

EIP water conference 2017

The conference was held in September in Porto, bringing together more than 1200 innovators linked to waterRead more

World Food Day

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations is celebrating World Food Day 2017 on 16 OctoberRead more

Organic agriculture in EIP-AGRI Operational Groups

TP Organics has published a brochure describing 4 existing Operational Groups from the organic sectorRead more

VIDEO on EIP-AGRI Operational Groups - available in ALL European languages

Did you know that the EIP-AGRI Operational Groups video is available in ALL European languages? Go to “settings” and select the one you want! /eip/agriculture/en/file/operational-groups-first-experiencesOperational Groups - First Experiences Video...Read more

Draft Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020 for agriculture, food and forestry is now online!

The European Commission has just published provisional versions of some Horizon 2020 work programme 2018-2020 chaptersRead more

ICT Proposers' Day 2017

Networking event on European ICT Research & Innovation with a special focus on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme for 2018-20.Read more

Food for innovative thought - new Agrinnovation magazine

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development has published the fourth edition of AgrinnovationRead more

Registration Horizon 2020 InfoWeek now open

A chance to get first-hand information on the up-coming call for proposals for Societal Challenge 2: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the BioeconomyRead more

Call for abstracts on agro-biodiversity – deadline 15 September

The deadline for submitting an abstract for the workshop "Experiences of agro-biodiversity valorisation in Europe” has been extended to 15 SepRead more

Inspirational ideas: SMART – an innovative look at sustainability performance

Through operational management, farmers can contribute to an improvement of sustainability while adapting their farm to future challengesRead more

Inspirational ideas: Concrete solutions for sustainability and animal welfare

A number of companies are working on improving existing building solutions to reduce emissions and improve animal welfareRead more

Growing protein crops to optimise livestock farms’ profits

Operational Group SOS Protein-TERUnic in the west of France is increasing the protein in their animal feed, while remaining profitableRead more

Focus Group call - thank you to all applicants

We received 200 applications for the latest call for experts which closed on 6 SeptemberRead more

Innovation at the Agri-Innovation Summit 2017

On 11-12 October, the AIS 2017 is taking place in Portugal.Read more

Tools for environmental farm performance

Read the final report from the EIP-AGRI workshop on 'Tools for environmental farm performance'Read more

Reducing emissions from cattle farming

Read the final report and the factsheet from the EIP-AGRI Focus Group on reducing emissions from cattle farmingRead more

Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 Infoweek

Don’t forget the Horizon 2020 Infoweek for Societal Challenge 2 on 14 to 17 November 2017Read more

The use of ICT for agriculture

FAO call: you have until 8 October send in your good practices on the use of ICT for agriculture.Read more

Cooperation for agri-innovation

During the 78th National Agriculture and Food Exhibition and Fair in Hungary (OMÉK) several events will be held on cooperation for agri-innovationRead more

New bio-products and services for forestry

The ForestValue joint call will contribute to the sustainable “bio-based economy”. The call will support projects that address the development of new, competitive and sustainable bio-products/services for forestry and forest-based...Read more

Sustainable bio-stimulants for agriculture

BIOFECTOR is an EU funded project looking into the use of natural bio-stimulants “bio-effectors” (BEs) as an alternative to mineral fertilisers.Read more

Biomass, energy systems and the circular economy

ERA-NET Cofund Bioenergy Sustaining the Future is launching a joint call: 'Biomass as an important pillar within energy systems and the circular economy'. The joint call aims to support innovative,...Read more

Join the EU-China project on capacity building for young farmers

Young farmers and professionals will have the opportunity in the EU-China project to experience farming techniques and environmental practices in the farming sector in the EU and China. Apply before 10 September 2017.Read more

SME Instrument: support to expand into other countries

SMEs can get EU funding and support via Horizon 2020’s SME Instrument.Read more

Inspirational ideas: Climate-friendly practices

Testing and sharing strategies for organic and low-input farming to mitigate and adapt to climate changeRead more

Inspirational ideas: Goats in good company

An organic farmer in Italy has found a natural way of reducing the effect of parasites in goats– bringing in black laying hensRead more

Factsheet on IPM for Brassica species

What cost-effective IPM solutions are available for Brassica? What other solutions can be proposed? Find out in the newly published factsheetRead more

Finding fair ways to support data sharing in agriculture

Read the report from the EIP-AGRI workshop on Data SharingRead more

Boosting organic seed & plant breeding

Bram Moeskops : “With this multi-actor consortium we can bring organic seeds and organic breeding forward.”Read more

Unlocking the innovation potential of agri and food SMEs

Horizon 2020 project helping agri & food SMEs to tap into their underexploited innovation potentialRead more

Call for abstracts- more sustainable farming and livelihood systems

Focus on farming systems facing uncertainties and how to enhance opportunities for more sustainable systems in this contextRead more

Horizon 2020 projects on agriculture, forestry and rural development

Did you know that DG AGRI has made an online list of Horizon 2020 projects which have a particular interest for research and innovation in agriculture, forestry and rural development?...Read more

Inspirational ideas: Future Farmers in the Spotlight

Sharing inspiring stories about young farmers who have – despite the many difficulties – managed to set up farming initiatives which are innovative, viable and sustainable!Read more

The evaluation of innovation

Did you know that the European Evaluation Helpdesk has published info on the evaluation of innovation? Take a look at the European Evaluation Helpdesk's Rural Evaluation NEWS for more details!Read more

Organic is Operational

EIP-AGRI workshop 'Organic is Operational' held in Hamburg in June was the first thematic workshop for up and running Operational GroupsRead more

R&D for a more sustainable agriculture in the Mediterranean basin

The EU and the Mediterranean countries have set up PRIMA, a partnership to unify national research and innovation efforts to tackle sustainability challengesRead more

Sustainable solid biofuels

Promoting the participation of the agricultural sector in the sustainable supply of solid biofuels in EuropeRead more

Launch innovative products to market

Eurostars supports international innovative projects which develop rapidly marketable innovative products, processes and services that help improve the daily lives of people around the worldRead more

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