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European Innovation Partnership „Agricultural Productivity and
Sustainability“
Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development
Food
Biodiversity Habitats Economic
Viability
Climate Change
Resource-management
BioeenergyBiomass
Supply ChainIntegration
Challenges and Opportunities
Societal Challenges
Prospect:
• Increasing food demand (FAO: plus 70% by 2050)
• Increasing land use competition (bio-mass, bio-energy, nature conservation) and pressures on resources and environment
• Slow-down of growth technological development
Response:
• Increasing agricultural production and productivity in a sustainable manner (resource efficiency and “public goods”)
• Acting across the whole supply change (recycling, reduction of post-harvest loss, and new products)
Requirements:
• Major investment into research and innovation
4
Closing The Innovation GAP
Research
Farming Practice
Interactio
n
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Needs
Challenge-driven solutions based on:
• pursuing innovation in a cross-sectoral approach, integrating the whole supply chain
• interlinking existing innovation-related measures and initiatives
• facilitating communication among stakeholders and creating workable links between science and practice
• providing EU value added through networking and enhancing complementarity
• achieving synergies and enhancing effectiveness of existing instruments
Means
Rural Development Programmes:
• Cooperation, including pilot and demonstration projects• Business development• Knowledge transfer and advisory services• Quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs• Investment in physical assets
European Union Research Policy (Horizon 2020)
• Applied research enhancing the knowledge base• Clusters of applied innovation actions and multi-stakeholder
projects• Support innovation brokers and innovation centres
Network Function of the EIP
• Interlinking innovation-related actions of Rural Development Policy and the Union Research and Innovation Framework
• Ensuring an effective flow of information and providing advice to partners about the opportunities provided by EU policies
• Exchange on best practice and accompanying research
• Systematic feedback about practice needs to the scientific community
• Exchange with European Technology Platforms (ETPs), European Research Area Networks (ERA-NETs), Joint Programming Initiatives, and other relevant fora
• Interface function of the Standing Committee for Agricultural Research SCAR
What is “Innovation”?
• Innovation means approaches that are new and successfully transformed into practical solutions (second criterion identifiable only ex-post)
• Innovation concerns products, processes, services, manage-ment, or organisational issues (supply or demand driven)
• The substance of innovation can differ by the structure of sector, regionally different states of development, and type of constraint faced (relative nature of innovation)
Implications for Fostering Innovation
• Engaging in innovative approaches implies not knowing the outcome in advance (need for inbuilt failure tolerance)
• The qualifier “innovative” cannot serve as an (ex-ante) eligibility criterion for measures fostering innovation (logical impossibility of defining “innovative” ex-ante)
• Need for defining eligibility for innovation-related measures by type of action
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Possible Themes
• Primary production: technical solutions to increasing productivity and economic viability
• Resource management: eco-system services, soil functionality, water management, and genetic resources (“public goods”)
• Bioeconomy: innovative technology for the bio-based economy; recyling; new products; reduction of post harvest loss
• Supply chain: integrated supply chain solutions; innovation in products and services, logistics, and management systems
• Quality and consumers: food quality, food safety, and healthy lifestyles (consumer information and consumer choice)
Rural Development Policy:
• Knowledge transfer• Cooperation• Pilot projects • Advisory System• Investment
Research & InnovationFramework:
• Applied research• Clusters • Pilot projects• Innovation
brokers
Operational Groups Operational
Groups
Operational Groups
Operational Groups
Operational Groups
Horizon 2020Programming
MemberStates
Programmes
ETPs, ERA-Nets, JPIs,
etc.
EIP Network:• Farmers• Advisors• Enterprises• Researchers• NGOs• etc.
Rural Development
Committee
Rural Development
NetworkSteering Group
Steering BoardEuropean Innovation Partnership
‚Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability ‘
Standing Committee
on Agricultural Research
Thank you for your attention!