Grants for leading a transformative change of the EU economy and society in order to reduce environmental degradation, halt and reverse the decline of biodiversity and better manage natural resources while meeting the EU’s climate objectives and ensuring food and water security
Priorities and funded actions
The cluster “Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment” aims to provide opportunities to enhance and balance environmental, social and economic goals and to set human economic activities on a path towards sustainability.
Objectives:
- Reducing GHG emissions, maintaining natural carbon sinks, and enhancing the sequestration and storage of carbon in ecosystems, including by unfolding the potential of nature based solutions, production systems on land and at sea as well as rural and coastal areas, where adaptations to climate change are also being fostered for enhancing resilience;
- Preserving ecosystems and their services, and sustainably restoring on land, inland water and at sea through improved knowledge and innovation;
- Ensuring sustainable and circular management and use of natural resources as well as prevention and removal of pollution, unlocking the potential of the bioeconomy, ensuring competitiveness and guaranteeing healthy soil, air, fresh and marine water for all, through better understanding of planetary boundaries and deployment of innovative technologies and other solutions, notably in primary production, forestry and bio-based systems;
- Ensuring food and nutrition security for all through knowledge, innovation and digitalisation in agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture and
food systems, which are sustainable, resilient, inclusive, safe and healthy from farm to fork; - Developing rural, coastal and urban areas in a sustainable, balanced and inclusive manner thanks to a better understanding of the environmental, socioeconomic, behavioural and demographic drivers of
change as well as deployment of digital, social and community-led innovations; - Establishing and monitoring innovative governance models enabling sustainability and resilience through enhanced and shared use of new knowledge, tools, foresight, and environmental observations as well as digital, modelling and forecasting capabilities.
Priorities :
- Priority 1: Promoting an open strategic autonomy by leading the development of key digital and enabling technologies, sectors and value chains to accelerate and steer the digital and green transitions through human-centred technologies and innovations;
- Priority 2: Restoring Europe’s ecosystems and biodiversity, and managing sustainably natural resources to ensure food security and a clean and healthy environment;
- Priority 3: Making Europe the first digitally led circular, climate-neutral and sustainable economy through the transformation of its mobility, energy, construction and production systems;
- Priority 4: Creating a more resilient, inclusive and democratic European society, prepared and responsive to threats and disasters, addressing inequalities and providing high-quality health care, and empowering all citizens to act in the green and digital transitions.
Structure:
- Destination 1: Biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Destination 2: Fair, healthy and environment-friendly food systems from primary production and consumption
- Destination 3: Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors
- Destination 4: Clean environment and zero pollution
- Destination 5: Land, ocean and water for climate actio
- Destination 6: Resilient, inclusive, healthy and green rural, coastal and urban communities
- Destination 7: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Among financed actions:
- Research and innovation activities;
- Communication, dissemination and cross-fertilisation of research;
- Coordination and support actions.
Contact
Mr Peter WEHRHEIM
+32-229-88578
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/research-and-innovation
Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
European Commission