Deadline: 06-Oct-21
The European Commission (EC) has launched the Assessing the impacts of digital technologies in agriculture – cost, benefits and potential for sustainability gains.
Digital technologies in agriculture and their potential to increase farms` economic and sustainability performance, facilitate work and enhance working conditions has received huge attention in the political sphere in recent years.
Agriculture has to play a key role in achieving environmental and climate ambitions in the EU, and digital technologies offer opportunities to increase the sustainability performance of the agricultural sector.
However, there is still a huge “gap” between the portfolio of digital technologies offered at the market and the actual uptake and use by farmers in the EU.
Studies show that among key uptake barriers hindering the farmers to make use of digital technologies are:
- a lack of knowledge about those tools in general, as well as their costs and benefits,
- a lack of overview of the strengths and weaknesses of certain tools in the huge portfolio offered on markets and the suitability to address farm-specific needs, and
- a lack of believe in the added value of digital technologies for the management of a farm.
Funding Information
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Outcomes
Projects results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Awareness and informed decisions based on the demonstration of the costs and benefits of the use of digital technologies for the agricultural sector.
- Facilitated uptake of digital technologies by farmers, including through decision-making support and the analysis of farmers’ motivations.
- Strengthen the capacities of farmers` advisors in the field of digital technologies.
- Strengthening the capacities to design, implement, monitor and evaluate policy measures in the fields of agriculture, environment and climate, as basis for better tailored, more effective and efficient policy measures in the fields of digitalisation in agriculture, and sustainability.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
- eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe
- low- and middle-income countries.
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