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Nine projects selected for funding for the 4 ERA-NETs call on Circularity

Published on: October 19, 2021

The four ERA-NETs FACCE ERA-GAS (Monitoring and Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture and Silviculture), ICT-AGRI-FOOD, SusCrop (Sustainable Crop Production) and SusAn (Sustainable Animal Production Systems) have coordinated and aligned efforts in areas of mutual interest and established a joint transnational funding initiative in the field of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) research, focusing on circularity in mixed crops and livestock farming systems with emphasis on climate change mitigation and adaptation.

After peer review and ranking of the 39 eligible full proposals by the International Evaluation Committee, the funders recommended 9 projects for funding within the limits of available national/regional funding.

The Call is funded by 29 institutions from 22 countries (16 EU Member States, 3 EU-Associated Countries and 3 non EU/Associated Countries) and the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases.

The overall expected impact of projects funded under this call is to enhance circularity between crop and livestock farming systems.

Proposals must cover all the four points that follow:

Focus on mixed crop-livestock farming systems
Address the monitoring and/or mitigation of GHGs from agriculture or agroforestry.
Contain an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) dimension.
Take a systems approach.

Call documents

The projects funded are:

Project Title	Project Acronym	Coordinator	Countries Involved
Strategies for circular agriculture to reduce GHG emissions within and between farming systems across an agro-ecological gradient	CircAgric-GHG	Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, NIBIO, Norway	NO, KE, ES, IE, DE, IT, ZA, UK
Connecting sustainable agroecosystems and farming with circular bioeconomy and new technologies	ConnectFarms	Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per le Scienze Ambientali, Italy	IT, BG, LT, EE, ES, PL, TR
Multi-criteria assessment, decision support and management tools for sustainable circular mixed farming systems for dairy production	DairyMix	Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy, Germany	DE, IE, IT, PL, FR, NO, BE, AR
Integrated crop-ruminant livestock systems as a strategy to increase nutrient circularity and promote sustainability in the context of climate change	INTEGRITY	National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina	AR, ES, FI, UK, NZ, PE, UY, FR, IE
Mitigation and adaptation through better biomass cycling in crop livestock systems of north and western Europe	MI BICYCLE	Wageningen University, The Netherlands	NL, DK, UK, FR
Balancing production and environment	PROENV	Aarhus University, Denmark	DK, NO, ES, IT
Back to the Future: reintegrating land and livestock for greenhouse gas mitigation and circularity	ReLive	University College Dublin, Ireland	IE, FR, NL, DE, ES, FI, PL, EE, NZ, CL
Synergies in integrated systems: Improving resource use efficiency while mitigating GHG emissions through well-informed decisions about circularity	SENSE	The James Hutton Institute, UK	UK, NL, DE, IT, BR, AR, UY
Solutions for GHGs emissions mitigation for the mixed farming systems across different European climates	Solution4Farming	Beia Consult International, Romania	RO, PL, ES, FI