Rob Peters European Commission, DG AGRI

Rural renaissance call

Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 Infoday

25/11/2015

Call Rural renaissance : Fostering innovation and business opportunities (RUR) 128M€ to grasp promising opportunities to boost rural growth and jobs

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Key facts and figures: rural-urban typology

EU territory: • 50% rural • 38%

intermediate

Rural & intermediate:

• 55% EU jobs • 46% GVA

Key facts and figures: rural growth potential

• Rural GDP lags at around 70% of EU average

• But average GDP growth rate 2000-2009 higher in OECD rural regions (2013)

• Aggregate growth or rural regions = 75% of total growth

EC, 2014

OECD, 2014

Key facts and figures: jobs

• Primary sector employment still significant especially in EU-N12 • Close link to secondary sector (up and downstream spill-over

effects)

EC, 2014

Key facts and figures: business development opportunities

• Opportunities:

• Higher demand for "biomass" for food and non-food uses

• New energy agenda, space for renewable energy

• Renewed interest from consumers in local/regional products

• Demand for ecosystem services, possibility for better remuneration

• International trade of high-value added products

• Lifestyle migrants

• Services for new rural inhabitants

Rural renaissance at a glance: what is it about?

• Opportunities for sustainable rural growth… • … looked at through integrated approaches… • … cutting accross sectors… • … taking a territorial perspective…

• … with the ambition to: • modernize policies & governance • foster new business development • boost innovation, co-creation and exploitation of knowledge • enhance social and human capital

Rural renaissance: our territories € 128 million to grasp promising opportunities

to boost rural growth and jobs •

Invest in businesses:

47 M€ for new business models, new value chains and better connectivity

Invest in people:

49 M€ to boost innovation, co-creation and exploitation of knowledge by improving skills and innovation systems

Invest in better decision-making:

25 M€ to modernize policies and governance to make the most out of our resourceful territories sustainably

Help us to have it all:

more and better jobs, better environment, better social cohesion

Rural renaissance : 3 areas

Rural renaissance

New approaches

towards Policies and governance

New value chains and business models

Innovation and skills

development

5 Topics, (4 RIA, 1 IA) 32 M€

4 Topics (3 RIA, 1 IA) 47 M€

7 Topics 3 RIA, 4 CSA 49 M€

16 Topics 10 RIA, 2 IA, 4 CSA 128 M€ (66M€ in 2016 – 62 M€ in 2017)

• Thematic networks

• Experimental and demonstration farms:

• Mapping & linking

• Thematic networks of demonstration farms

• Building a future science and education system

• Advisors' role in AKIS

• Working together in EU countries where cooperation level is low

• Optimising interactive innovation projects and policies for innovation

• Crop diversification systems for delivery of food, feed, industrial products and ecosystem services

• Resource-efficient and profitable industrial crops on marginal lands

• Demonstration of integrated logistics for food and non-food applications

• Business models for modern rural economies

• Territorial interactions: enhance synergies, adapt policies, foster cross-sectoral cooperation

• Rural-urban • Land-sea

• 'Towards 2030': policies

and decision tools for an integrated management of natural resources

• Economic benefits from ecosystem services:

• Farming & drinking water

• Forest ecosystem services (IA)

Rural renaissance topics

Policies & governance

Value chains & business models

Innovation and skill

development

5 topics – 32 M€ 4 topics – 47 M€ 7 topics – 49 M€

Rob Peters European Commission, DG AGRI

The multi-actor approach in H2020 WP 2016-2017

(SFS, RUR, IoT)

Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 Infoday

25/11/2015

The Multi-actor approach under WP2016-2017

• Investment X 2,5 371,5 Million euros

• 38 topics in 3 calls: SFS, RUR, IoT

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5

10

15

20

25

SFS RUR IoT

Number of multi-actor topics in WP2016-2017

2016-2017 2016 2017

€ 221.500.000

€ 120.000.000

€ 30.000.000

Distribution of budget for multi-actor projects

SFS

RUR

IoT

The multi-actor approach under WP2016-2017: Key elements

• Description now in WP introduction p. 9-10

• Multi-actor projects are about interactive innovation

• Beyond dissemination requirement and stakeholders' board

• Genuine and sufficient involvement of various actors all along the project, from planning to demonstration

• Demonstrate how project will respond to end-users needs

• Substantial practical knowledge easily accessible and understandable

• Contribution to EIP-AGRI (for EIP-AGRI related areas)

• Practice abstracts respecting the common EIP format

• Strong recommendation to connect with operational groups

Learn from first Horizon 2020 multi-actor projects

Workshop "Interactive innovation in motion: multi-actor projects and thematic networks under Horizon 2020" 24/11/2015:

• Event page (presentations to be on-line end of the week): https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/news/interactive-innovation-motion-multi-actor-projects-and-thematic-networks-under-horizon-2020

• Recordings: https://scic.ec.europa.eu/streaming/workshop-on-multi-actor-approach-and-thematic-networks-under-horizon-2020

Multi-actor topics 2016: Sustainable Food Security (SFS)

SFS-1 Solutions to multiple and combined stresses in crop production 10 Mio €

SFS-2 Teaming up for good: Exploiting the benefits of species diversity in

cropping systems

5 Mio €

SFS-6 Weeding - strategies, tools and technologies for sustainable weed

management

7 Mio €

SFS-7 Organic breeding – Increasing the competitiveness of the organic

breeding and farming sectors

8 Mio €

SFS-9 Spotlight on critical outbreak of pests: the case of Xylella fastid. 7 Mio €

SFS-11 Challenges for disease management: Perennial crops in the tropics

and sub-tropics

12 Mio €

SFS-15 Breeding livestock for resilience and efficiency 7 Mio €

SFS-26 Legumes - transition paths to sustainable legume-based farming

systems and agri-feed and food chains

10 Mio €

SFS-37 The impact of consumer practices in food safety: risks and mitigation

strategies

9,5 Mio €

SFS-42 Promoting food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture in

Africa: the role of innovation

5 Mio €

IoT-01 Large-Scale pilots

Pilot 2: Smart farming and food security

100 Mio €

30 Mio €

Multi-actor topics 2016: Internet of Things (IoT)

Multi-actor topics 2016 - Rural Renaissance (RUR)

RUR-1 Consolidated policy framework and governance models for synergies

in rural-urban linkages

6 Mio €

RUR-4 Water farms – improving farming and its impact on the supply of

drinking water

5 Mio €

RUR-6 Crop diversification systems for the delivery of food, feed, industrial

products and ecosystems services - from farm benefits to value-chain

organisation

20 Mio €

RUR-7 Resource-efficient and profitable industrial crops on marginal land 6 Mio €

RUR-8 Demonstration of integrated logistics centres for food and non-food

applications

12 Mio €

RUR-10 Thematic Networks compiling knowledge ready for practice 10 Mio €

RUR-11 On-farm demonstrations: deepening farmer-to-farmer learning

mechanisms

2 Mio €

RUR-14 Advisors' roles in the functioning of AKIS and advisory policies

boosting innovation in sustainable agriculture

5 Mio €

Work Programme documents and supporting material

Participant portal Reference documents Societal challenge 2

work programme

Official published version: only this one prevails!

A guide to find your way through calls 2016

of interest to agriculture and forestry

EIP-AGRI website Brochure

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