ICT-AGRI-FOOD 2022 Joint Call is Open for Application!

Deadline: 15-Aug-22

TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) is excited to launch a join call for the 2022 ICT-AGRI-FOOD (ICT-enabled agri-food systems).

This call encourages the submission of research proposals with a potential impact relevant for enabling digital technology solutions towards a transition for more sustainable, transparent and resilient agri-food systems.

The development and integration of new digital technologies for precision agriculture/smart farming, logistics, food processing, supply chain management, traceability, business transaction should also favour transparency and traceability for all stakeholders, from farmers all way down to consumers and not least policy and decision makers.

Relevant effects along the value chain should be also considered, combining impacts on two or more phases including: primary production, manufacturing and processing, food packaging, distribution, consumers’ behaviour and attitude, household as well as catering consumption, including questions regarding wastes and losses through the food chain. Transparency, the main theme of this call, is a crucial factor in ensuring food traceability and authenticity as well as economic planning. The sustainability factor should also be addressed from environmental, social and economic perspectives.

Thematic Areas

Agri-food systems enabled by interconnected digital technologies that are more transparent to consumers, farmers and other stakeholders along the agri-food value chain
Identify, address and remove barriers for adoption of ICT technologies in the agri- food systems
Development and impact estimation (if applicable: evaluation) of data-driven reward and incentive systems to support sustainable and resilient farm management practices.

Details

It is expected that the proposals will:

Support farmers and food businesses to increase the sustainability of their products, including organic sector, as primary component of the food system, and processes;
Increase transparency efficiency and effectiveness of traceability across food systems;
Increase the capacity of authorities and policymakers that deal with food safety and sustainability, to monitor the performance of different parts and processes of the food system;
Propose new transparency solutions that are demand-driven, in line with the relevant legal frameworks, and cost-effective.

Funding Information

A total amount of 8388 k€ has been provisionally reserved by the participating Funding Parties of the Call.

Argentina-€100k
Belgium- €1000k
Bulgaria-€300k
Denmark-€750k
Estonia-€100-150k
Finland-€300k
Germany-€600k
Hungary-€200k
Ireland-€288-1000k
Israel-€500k
Italy-€400k
Latvia-€600k
Poland-€600k
Romania-€500k
Spain-€500k
Turkey- €400-100k

Eligibility Criteria

The topic is suitable for applicants from academia and private sector (start-ups, SMEs, associations, Foundations, etc.) Who are interested to develop – and provide evidence for – the described incentive? And reward systems. Farmers can be important stakeholders or subcontractors in these projects.

The 2022 call is open to proposals that meet the following Specific Call Eligibility Criteria:

The application must be written in English.
The proposals must be submitted before the submission deadlines
Eligible consortia will consist of a minimum of 3 independent entities seeking funding from a minimum of 3 different Funding Parties of 3 different countries participating in the Joint Call;
Consortia with more than 8 partners should justify the necessity and manageability of the project in the submission.
Each applying consortium must be led by a project coordinator, who must be from an organisation that is eligible for funding from one of the funding parties in the call.
Involvement in multiple applications is permissible under the current call, provided it does not directly contravene national/regional funding regulations, however, where applicants, provided by their national/regional regulations, can be involved in multiple applications, they cannot be involved full-time on multiple applications.
Any individual participant will not be allowed to exceed more than 36 person months of his/her time in aggregate across the total number of applications submitted.
In order to achieve balanced projects, the maximum budget that can be requested (for each project) by partners from one country is 70% from the total requested budget. This limit is also valid if there are several partners from the same country.
Minimum project duration is two years (24 months) and maximum three years (36 months).
The application must pass the “H2020 ETHICS REVIEW PROCEDURE”.
Applicants not eligible for funding are welcome to participate in the projects at their own expense