At the Launch of the FP7 2013 Work Programmes for the KBBE and ENV themes, presentations were given by members of European Commission teams who developed the calls.
Timothy Hall presented an outline of the planned funding allocation of Theme 2: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology. The overall scope is ‘Bio-resource efficiency’, with an emphasis on the integration of basic and applied research, and transfer of knowledge to impact and innovation. They aim to fund broader, interdisciplinary topics that cover topics from more than one activity.
There are three activities in this theme, and the topics most obviously relevant to GARNet community are highlighted below:
2.1 Sustainable production, management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments.
- Crop breeding and management: Legumes (€5Mx2) and small grain cereals (€5Mx2).
- Plant health: IPM in fruit crops (€6Mx1) and biocontrol in agriculture and forestry (€9x1M)
- Agro-meterological crop modelling (€2Mx1).
- Outreach, translation, impact of results: €6x1M projects to get funding to get product market-ready.
2.2 ‘Fork to farm’: Food, health and well-being
- This activity is worth checking if you work on improving water-efficiency in plants or increasing Vitamin D levels.
2.3 Biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes.
- Plant high value products (€20M for several projects).
- Emerging trends in biotechnology with the view to maintain biotechnology at the front line of innovation (€9Mx1).
Alison Imrie gave a presentation outlining Theme 6: Environment (Including Climate Change). In this theme, the emphasis is on the prediction of global changes, as well as tools and technologies for monitoring, prevention and mitigation of, and adaptation to environmental pressures and risks.
The activities are: (more…)