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The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) invites eligible Irish Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) to submit joint research proposals under the Joint Call on Innovative Solutions for Resilient, Climate-Smart and Sustainable Food Systems
This research call is organised through the ERANET Cofunds SUSFOOD2 (SUStainable FOOD production and consumption) and FOSC (Food Systems and Climate).
The call contributes to the overall objectives of ERANETs to enhance European collaborative research between countries and thereby increase the quality of European research and innovation actions and their implementation in the agri-food forest and biobased sectors.
This is a single stage competitive submission process. The deadline for the submission of proposals is 16 August 2021 (15:00 CEST) . Projects are expected to start December 2021 – April 2022.
The purpose of the joint Call is to further strengthen Research and Development on innovative solutions for resilient, climate-smart and sustainable food systems, with a focus on approaches to improve resource efficiency and enhance the capability of food systems to withstand severe physical and economic shocks.
The aim of the Call is to foster scientifically excellent, multi-disciplinary and multi-actor research, development and innovation projects that take a systems approach considering all relevant aspects in food systems and their potential to increase its sustainability (Topic 1) and resilience (Topic 2). Projects can represent different spatial scales, from local focus to projections at the regional or macro-regional levels. Applicants seeking grant-aid from DAFM can apply for funding under either scientific topic areas:
Topic 1: Innovations to improve food systems sustainability, with a focus on increasing resource efficiency and reducing waste.
Topic 2: Food Systems adaptation and resilience to system shocks.
Additional information on the call scope, the topics and the possible research themes per topic of this call, eligibility criteria, submission procedures and the national annexes are provided in the Joint Call Documentation.
On 2nd June 2021 a webinar for interested applicants will be organised, which will give an overview about all relevant aspects of the Call and provide time to answer open questions. Furthermore, a webinar about the Food Systems approach will be provided. Detailed information about the webinars will be released directly on the submission tool website in due time.
The ERANET Joint Call documentation and the electronic submission system for applicants are available at: www.submission-susfood-era.net/sf2-fosc-jointcall
Proposals must be submitted via the electronic submission system.
A partnering tool has been created for applicants, to facilitate networking and the creation of consortia: SF2-FOSC Joint Call: Partnersearch (submission-susfood-era.net) . The tool can be used to post a partner offer or request to the tool if you want to build a consortium around an existing project and want to find partners for your project ideas; or search the list of partner offers or requests posted by others to find a project to join, either as an individual researcher or a representative of a lab or research team.
Irish applicants must read the ‘Guidelines for Irish Applicants’ in conjunction with the ERANET Joint Call Documentation, including the requirements set out in the National Annex for Ireland. The ‘Guidelines for Irish Applicants’ sets out in more detail the rules for Irish applicants seeking grant-aid from the Joint Call on Circularity.
Guidelines for Irish Applicants Joint Call SUSFOOD2-FOSC 2021
For further queries please contact:
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