EU funding workshop at AFBI Hillsborough

Workshop

A broad range of stakeholders from representing the local research base, industry and NGOs attended a cross-border workshop which took place at the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI) Hillsborough recently. 

This provided information on forthcoming European funding opportunities under Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 (Agri-food) & Societal Challenge 5 (Environment). 

Presentations

Presentations from the event are available below as PDFs for download.

• Overview of Horizon 2020 and Supports – Caroline Barry, (DAERA NI Contact Point for Environment (SC5))
• Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5 (SC5) – Alice Wemaere (EPA, Ireland) and Mark Sweeney (Enterprise Ireland), NCPs for SC5 – covering:
  -Climate Services and Nature Based Solutions
  -Towards a low-carbon Europe
  -Raw Materials and Circular Economy
  -Cultural heritage for sustainable growth
  -Pre-commercial procurement
  -Smart and Sustainable Cities
  -2018 -2020 SC5 Work Programme development
• Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 (SC2) Marine Aspects – Fiona Grant (Marine Institute, Ireland, NCP for Marine aspects under SC2), covering Blue Growth and marine-related topics
• Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 (SC2) - Patrick Barrett (DAFM, Ireland, NCP for Agri-food aspects under SC2) and Elaine Groom (DAERA NI Contact Point for Agri-Food and the Bioeconomy). 
• Sustainable Food Security
• Rural Renaissance
• Bio-based Economy
• Multi actor approach (important ‘how-to’)
• EIP-Agri (European Innovation Partnership) and links between RDP and H2020
• SC2 developing trends for post-2017 workprogramming

Other useful documents

• Summary of H2020 SC2 2017 topics and Agri-food-related calls
• EIP Agri Brochure on EU funding opportunities related to innovation in agriculture, food and forestry 
• EIP-AGRI Brochure on Research & Innovation across EU borders