Deadline: 2-Sep-25
Applications are now open for the Multi-Country Project in Agri-Food.
Objectives
- The objective of this action is to support a Multi-Country Project (MCP) in the agri-food sector.
- The MCP in Agri-Food aims to leverage digital infrastructure, particularly data infrastructure, to enhance the efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness of the agrifood sector across Europe.
- This action will foster the access, sharing, and reuse of data to support decision-making, reduce administrative burdens, and enable innovative solutions within the sector.
Funding Information
- EUR 15 000 000
Eligible Activities
- The awarded proposal should address the following activities:
- Develop and set-up digital infrastructure in view of enabling agri-food data exchange, access, and analysis at the European level; this activity should form a main part of project.
- Support the implementation and deployment of a large-scale data-infrastructure with a multi-country or EU-level dimension to roll out data services in agri-food relevant for the public and private domains.
- Provide assistance, including financial support to third parties, for the development of cross-border use cases focusing on real-life applications based on agri-food data sharing and promote the sharing and reuse of best practices. These use cases should be implemented across several Member States and foster advanced technologies, including AI, and should follow a coherent approach, that ensures interoperability; indicative areas for use cases include the preparation of scaling of the multi-country project and/ or subsequent actions that support the objectives of the MCP.
- Analyse gaps in existing agri-food data infrastructures and services, and propose measures to support the deployment, operation, and maintenance of data and service infrastructures.
- Provide operational support to create a sustainable collaboration framework among Member States and other stakeholders aimed at facilitating large-scale investments in digital and data infrastructure for agri-food projects with a multi country focus.
- Support the exchange of information and take stock of available infrastructures, solutions, tools, agreements, and standards related to the scope of the action among participants, and coordinate across initiatives and projects in different countries and domains.
Outcomes and Deliverables
- Capacity building: Proactive collaboration with stakeholders.
- Information exchange platform: A platform for sharing, primarily among participants, insights and data about infrastructure, tools, standards, and agreements related to the scope of this action, complementing related initiatives.
- Coordination roadmap: A comprehensive plan for preparing the implementation of the actions under this project and their contribution to the multi-country project, detailing the alignment of various initiatives, of actors participating in the action across different sectors and member states.
- Recommendations for the development, operation, and maintenance: Key foundational elements to roll-out the project towards countries not yet involved in the MCP and towards further segments of the agri-food sector.
- Assessment of ongoing initiatives: Stocktaking of ongoing initiatives at national and EU level relevant to the project and documentation of lessons learnt to tailor the approach towards the deployment action.
- Concept, technical specification, and set-up of digital infrastructure for the agri-food ecosystem.
Targeted stakeholders
- EDIC, Public and private entities such as (but not limited to) public administrations (national, regional, and local level), economic actors (SMEs, large organizations) in the agri-food sector.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme
- Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation).
- Please note however that following topic is subject to restrictions due to security reasons:
- DIGITAL-2025-AI-SUPPLY-08-Apply AI: GenAI for the public administrations
- Only the following countries are eligible: EU Member States, EEA countries (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) and Switzerland.
- Entities must not be directly or indirectly controlled from a country that is not an eligible country unless the granting authority agrees to allow for exceptional participation on the basis of a guarantee.
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