GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should address the following activities:

• Summarise, share and present – in a language that is easy to understand and is targeted to farmers and foresters – the existing best practices and research findings that are ready to be put into practice, but not sufficiently known or used by practitioners. The specific themes of the networks can be chosen in a ‘bottom-up’ way on the condition that they tackle the most urgent farmers’ or foresters’ needs.
• Compile a comprehensive description of the state of current farming practices on the chosen theme to explain the added-value of the proposal and the relevance of the theme. Proposals shall focus on the cost/benefit aspects of the practices collected and summarised, and clarify how the project avoids duplication with ongoing or completed projects and networks.
• Deliver an extensive range of useful, applicable and appealing end-user material for farmers and foresters. This info should be easy to access and understand, making use of audio-visual material wherever possible, including also materials serving education and training;
• This range of material should feed into the existing dissemination channels most consulted by farmers and foresters in the countries.
• As many “practice abstracts” in the common European innovation partnership “Agricultural productivity and sustainability” format as possible, as well as other type of materials should be provided to the EIP-AGRI, as well as to national / regional / local AKIS channels and to the EU-wide interactive knowledge reservoir , all in the requested formats;
• Besides giving the details on the EIP-AGRI Operational Groups which are strongly recommended to be involved, wherever possible and relevant to the chosen theme, provide also details on how further synergies will be built with future EIP-AGRI Operational Groups and interactive innovation groups operating in the context of the EIP-AGRI.
• Proposals must implement the ‘multi-actor approach’, with a consortium based on a balanced mix of actors with complementary knowledge clearly activating farmers/foresters, farmers’ groups and advisors; and run for minimum 3 years.