Deadline: 06-Oct-21
European Commission is calling proposals for Development of the Markets and Use of Digital Technologies and Infrastructure in Agriculture state of play and foresight: digital and data technologies for the agricultural sector in a fast-changing regulatory, trade, and technical environment.
Scope
- The potential of digital technologies in the agricultural sector to enhance its sustainability and economic performance and to enhance working conditions has been acknowledged.
- The uptake of digital technologies in the agricultural sector and the development of supplementing data-technology-based solutions in the EU are increasing.
- However, there is hardly comprehensive, independently collected data about the actual uptake and use of digital technologies by farmers, the trade of sector-related digital technologies, and about the extent and structure of the provision of digital and data services in the agri-food supply chain, which is of global outreach.
- To the same time, policies and the regulatory framework directly or indirectly influencing the deployment of digital and data technologies in the EU is evolving in a fast pace and will continue to do so. Also trade regimes are continuously changing.
- For stakeholder in the agricultural and the digital sector to invest in digital and data technologies, it is important to be able to assess the possible implications of changing regulatory and market conditions on the development, purchase and use of digital and data technologies in the agricultural sector.
Funding Information
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
- In line with the farm to fork Strategy and the headline ambitions of a Digital Age – the European Strategy for data in particular – and the headline ambition an Economy that works for people, leaving no one behind, the successful proposal(s) will support the capacities to understand and develop the markets and use of digital technologies in agriculture.
- They will therefore contribute:
- to the enhancement of the sustainability performance and competitiveness in agriculture through further deployment of digital and data technologies as key enablers, and
- to the development of innovative governance models enabling sustainability and resilience notably to achieve better informed decision-making processes, and innovation through research and
- innovation in the field of digital technologies and infrastructure in agriculture.
- Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Increase transparency in the markets for digital and data technologies in the agricultural sector and in data sharing in the agricultural value chain, and support competition;
- Lower the risk of investments in digital and data technologies in the agricultural sector;
- Strengthen policy-making and-monitoring and foresight capacities in agriculture and digital and data technologies;
- Contribute to an increased uptake of digital and data technologies in the agricultural sector and indirectly contribute to an increase in environmental and economic performance of the agricultural sector through increased and enhanced used of digital technologies and data.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call topic.
- A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
- 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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