GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should address the following activities:

• Collect and enable sharing the outcomes of all multi-actor projects from Horizon 2020 and those from Horizon Europe, of all EIP-AGRI Operational Group innovative projects 2014-2020 and of those to come in the 2021-2027 period. This should be done by developing, operating and fine-tuning the use of an open access and open source digital EU-wide knowledge reservoir (page 496-497 of the work programme) for practice interoperable with the European innovation partnership “Agricultural productivity and sustainability” (EIP-AGRI). Where needed, this may entail policy dialogues and small studies;
• Develop this tool, which is to be owned and exploited by the EU, enabling it to serve the knowledge interactions within the EIP-AGRI network, in particular with a view to explore how to encourage emergence of new EIP-AGRI innovation projects by connecting projects and actors. To this end, the project should collaborate with the EIP-AGRI networks at Member State and at EU level;
• Share the output of the EU knowledge reservoir as widely as possible, using existing dissemination channels for farmers and foresters and national/regional/local AKIS channels, with the support of AKIS coordination bodies and platforms in Member States. Explore the possibilities for translation of its content into EU languages;
• Develop interactive communication activities on the outcomes of clusters of projects in the reservoir, so that the knowledge comes to life through workshops and encounters between AKIS’ actors, in particular those who have common interests across the EU;
• Peer-to-peer activities and mixed actor events on dedicated parts of the content of the knowledge reservoir, enable innovations to arise from existing work, using the inputs and suggestions received from key actors all over the EU;
• Use the collected material to develop educational material for students, farmers, foresters, advisors and others, and for encouraging on-farm demonstrations. Give input for training of advisors and farmers. All this material is to be exploited across Europe through real life, one-to-one and virtual activities;
• The project should collaborate with all 27 EU Member States’ AKIS’ coordinating bodies and related networks, and strongly connect to the EIP-AGRI at EU level; etc. in the work programme