FACCE SURPLUS announces a call for research projects on small scale biorefineries
FACCE
SURPLUS (Sustainable and Resilient agriculture for food and non-food
systems) is an ERA-NET under the Cofund scheme of Horizon 2020 of the European
Union, formed in collaboration between the European Commission and a
partnership of 15 countries in the frame of the Joint Programming Initiative on
Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI). This ERA-NET is committed to
improve cooperation across the European Research Area in the range of diverse,
but integrated, food and non-food biomass production and transformation
systems, including biorefining.
Following the update of the
FACCE-JPI SRA (Strategic Research Agenda) in November 2015, this initiative
elaborated a second Implementation Plan to start a set of new actions in the
period 2016-2018. One of these actions, “Explore and exploit refinery concepts
for the multiple use of biomass under climate change, taking economic and
environmental implications into account”, was addressed by FACCE SURPLUS in the
frame of a scoping workshop in May 2016. As an outcome from this workshop, the
FACCE SURPLUS partners decided to launch a joint call for transnational
research projects focused on the small-scale biorefinery concepts and their
potential role in enhancing the sustainability and productivity of EU
agriculture, as well as their scope to benefit the rural economy. “Small scale”
covers a whole spectrum of levels, from farm level, over the local, to the regional
level, in contrast to large-scale, centralised biorefineries developed in the BBI JU.
Figure 1. FACCE SURPLUS logo (extracted
from FACCE SURPLUS web page)
The key information about the call
is summarized in the table below. For detailed information on how to apply, you
can visit this page
and download the call
announcement.
Countries participating in the call
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Belgium - Flanders, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Norway, Poland, Romania and The Netherlands
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Indicative total available budget
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6.25 M€
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Submission process
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Online on the FACCE-JPI Submission Tool.
In a two-stage submission process, at first
the planned work is presented as a pre-proposal which will be checked for
eligibility. Successful consortia at pre-proposal stage will be invited to
submit a full proposal which will be evaluated by independent experts.
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Timeline
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05.01.2017: Call opening.
07.03.2017: Deadline for pre-proposal
submission.
23.05.2017: Communication of eligibility
check and evaluation outcomes to the research project coordinators.
17.07.2017: Deadline for full proposal
submission.
30.11.2017: Communication of the evaluation
outcomes and the funding recommendation to the research project coordinators
and start of national procedures.
From 01.02.2018 to 01.04.2018: Expected start
of research projects.
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Project duration
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Up to three years.
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