Cluster 6: Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment

Cluster 6: Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment

What follows is an overview of the European Partnerships in the structure of Horizon Europe following the second strategic plan:

Co-funded

Biodiversa+

Biodiversa+ is the European co-funded biodiversity partnership supporting excellent research on biodiversity with an impact for policy and society.

Sustainable Blue Economy: Climate Neutral, Sustainable & Productive Blue Economy

The Partnership boosts the transformation towards a climate-neutral, sustainable, productive and competitive blue economy. They aim to restore the ocean’s health, resilience and services to people by enabling economic activity that is climate-neutral, sustainable and productive.

Water4All

Water4All aims at enabling water security for all. It will boost systemic transformations and foster the matchmaking between problem owners and solution providers.

EUPAHW: Animal Health and Welfare

The vision of the EU Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare (designated by the abbreviation EUP AH&W or its acronym EUPAHW) is to provide society with sustainable livestock, poultry and aquaculture production.

AGROECOLOGY: Accelerating Farming Systems Transitions

The Partnership will contribute to filling existing knowledge gaps on AgroEcology, promoting more open innovation and user-driven research, addressing the wide geographical/territorial specificities in the EU through place-based approaches with long-term perspectives, and improving the sharing of knowledge within and across EU countries and beyond.

AgData: Agriculture of Data (Pending)

This partnership aims to enhance climate, environmental and socio-economic sustainability, and productivity of agriculture and to strengthen policy monitoring and evaluation capacities through exploiting the potential of Earth and environmental observation and other data, in combination with innovative data technologies.

FutureFoodS: Safe and Sustainable Food Systems

FutureFoodS aims for the transformation of national, EU and global food systems, making them safe, sustainable, healthy, resilient and trusted – for everyone and within planetary boundaries.

Forests and Forestry for a Sustainable Future (Pending)

This partnership aims to promote healthy, biodiverse and resilient forests that are sustainably managed and able to provide a wide range of key ecosystem services, including climate change mitigation through carbon removals and a continuing supply of materials and services for the development of the bioeconomy.

Institutionalised Partnerships

CBE JU: Circular Bio-based Europe

CBE JU's main goals are to accelerate the innovation process and development of bio-based innovative solutions and the market deployment of the existing mature and innovative bio-based solutions. Also, to ensure a high level of environmental performance of bio-based industrial systems.

PRIMA: R&I in the Mediterranean Area

PRIMA's mission is to achieve, support and promote integration, alignment and joint implementation of national R&I programmes under a common research and innovation strategy to address the diverse challenges in water scarcity, agriculture, food security.