Horizon 2020 projects
French Chambers of Agriculture are notably participating / participated in some H2020 projects through different themes. Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA is sometimes one of the partners in the European consortiums, with Regional and Departmental Chambers of Agriculture as Linked Third Parties.
Their activities can be for example:
- Collecting data and feedback from farmers, other stakeholders and other experts
- Organizing events (Interviews, Workshops, Focus groups, Surveys…)
- Performing tests on plot scale and operational conditions
- Assessing legal and commercial readiness levels
- Providing policy recommendations about issues
- Disseminating and communicating to a large public (end-users, industrialists, policy makers…)
H2020 projects:
Rural Renaissance (RUR)
Fuelling the potential of advisors for innovation
i2connect
“Connecting advisors to boost interactive innovation in agriculture & forestry”
Start-End: 2019-2024
APCA coordinates the European i2connect project which aims to promote interactive innovation between the different actors of agricultural and forestry advisory services. Designed at European scale and working in a collaborative way, we wish to make interactive innovation a lever of action in the advisory services. This project is part of the Chambers of Agriculture Strategic Project and will contribute in particular to amplify the support of groups of farmers on innovative themes and to accelerate the knowledge sharing within the network of Chambers of Agriculture and with its partners. The expected results are, among others: the creation of an online database of advisory organisations and advisors in Europe; the elaboration of 30 national reports and inventories (AKIS); the training of trainers (50 people), advisors (600), managers of advisory services (80) and other stakeholders.
Coordinator: APCA (French Chambers of Agriculture), France
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Réseau des Chambres d’agriculture de l’arc atlantique (AC3A) et Chambre régionale d'agriculture Occitanie and Resolia
Website (many languages): https://i2connect-h2020.eu/
Contact at APCA: Carmen Avellaner: carmen.avellaner@apca.chambagri.fr; Sylvain Sturel: sylvain.sturel@apca.chambagri.fr
From farm to society: understanding dynamics and modernising policies
COASTAL
Improving the coastal-rural synergy to foster rural and coastal development while preserving the environment, by means of making and assessing business solutions and policy recommandations.
Start-End: 2018-2021
Coordinator: VITO - Independent research organisation (Belgium)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambre régionale d'agriculture Nouvelle Aquitaine
Website: https://h2020-coastal.eu/
Organising sustainable food and non-food value chains under changing conditions
DiverIMPACTS
Achieving the full potential of diversification of cropping systems to improve their productivity, delivery of ecosystem services and resource-efficient and sustainable value chains.
Start-End: 2017-2022
Coordinator: INRA Grignon (France)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA, Chambres régionales d'agriculture Pays-de-la-Loire, Occitanie and Grand-Est
Website: http://www.diverimpacts.net
LIVERUR
Developping a novel business model for rural areas, "Living Labs".
Start-End: 2018-2021
Coordinator: Cleopa GmbH - Consulting firm (Germany)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres régionales d'agriculture PACA, Pays de la Loire and Bretagne
Website: under construction
Boosting innovation and enhancing the human and social capital in rural areas
AGRIDEMO F2F
Deepening farmers knowlege and practices with experience of different involved actors through Europe.
Start-End: 2017-2021
Coordinator: ILVO - Independent research institute (Belgium)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: AC3A, Chambre régionale d'agriculture Bretagne
Website: https://agridemo-h2020.eu/
EURODAIRY
Building a pan-European network for dairy farming to increase innovation and experience exchange and to harmonize assessment methods.
Start-End: 2016-2019
Coordinator: AHDB Dairy (United-Kingdom)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres régionales d'agriculture Bretagne, Normandie, Pays de La Loire and Hauts-de-France (as third parties)
Website: https://eurodairy.eu/
FairSHARE
Effectively ensuring farm advisor skills on digital tool and service.
Start-End: 2019-2022
Coordinator: TEAGASC (Irland)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: AC3A, Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA, Chambres régionales d'agriculture Bretagne, Occitanie and Normandie
Website: under construction
Inno4Grass
Ensuring the implementation of innovative systems on productive grasslands by means of new bridges between practionners and researchers to improve their profitability and to preserve environment.
Start-End: 2017-2019
Coordinator: GruenlandZentrum (Germany)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA, Chambres régionales d'agriculture Centre-Val-de-Loire, Normandie and Pays de La Loire and Chambre d'agriculture Vosges
Website: https://www.inno4grass.eu/en/
NEFERTITI
Building a pan-European networking of demonstration farms to improve knowledge exchange between farmers and their appropriation.
Start-End: 2018-2022
Coordinator: ACTA (France)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA, Chambres régionales d'agriculture Bretagne, Grand Est and Normandie and Chambre d'agriculture Gironde
Website: https://nefertiti-h2020.eu/
NUTRIMAN
Building a pan-European network of compiling knowledge ready for practice for such recovered bio-based fertilisers and technologies.
Start-End: 2018-2021
Coordinator: Terra Humana Ltd -Company (Hungary)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA, Chambre régionale d'agriculture Bretagne and Chambre d'agriculture Charente-Maritime
Website: http://nutriman.net/
PLAID
Building a pan-European networking of commercial and demontration farms to ensure innovation exchange between farmers and to make the European agriculture more sustainable.
Start-End: 2017-2019
Coordinator: James Hutton Institute (Royaume-Uni)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA (as ACTA third party)
Website: https://www.plaid-h2020.eu/
SmartAgriHubs
Building a pan-European network of Digital Innovation Hubs and Centres of Competence in European Union.
Start-End: 2019-2022
Coordinator: Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambre régionale d'agriculture Pays de La Loire as Third Party of Regional Council of Pays de La Loire & Chambre régionale d'agriculture Grand-Est as Third Party of Terrasolis
Website: under construction
Sustainable Food Security (SFS)
Making sustainable and safe food
IWMPRAISE
Implementing integrated adventitious flora control through Europe to achieve a more sustainable and more resilient agriculture.
Start-End: 2017-2022
Coordinator: Aarhus University (Denmark)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA, Chambre régionale d'agriculture Centre-Val de Loire and Chambre d'agriculture de région Ile-de-France
Website: https://iwmpraise.eu/
LANDMARK
Studying 5 soil functions (Biomass production, Water purification and regulation, Carbon sequestration, cycling and regulation, Provision of functional and intrinsic biodiversity and Provision and cycling of nutrients) for a sustainable management of soil and land : development of a new Decision Support Tool, Soil Navigator.
Start-End: 2015-2019
Coordinator: Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA, Chambres régionales d'agriculture Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Centre-Val-de-Loire, Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine + UniLaSalle
Website: http://landmark2020.eu/
Environment and climate-smart food production and consumption
AGFORWARD
Promoting agroforestry practices on farms which do not use it through Europe to improve competitiveness of rural areas and to enhance their social and environmental conditions.
Start-End: 2014-2017
Coordinator: Cranfield University (United Kingdom)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA, Chambres d'agriculture Charente-Maritime and Seine-Maritime, Chambre régionale d'agriculture Hauts-de-France
Website: https://www.agforward.eu/index.php/en/home-redirect.html
LEGVALUE
Delivering greater EU self-sufficiency in vegetable protein production, adding value to markets with inovation and influencing change at different levels (commercial, research or policy).
Start-End: 2017-2021
Coordinator: Terres Inovia (France)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres régionales d'agriculture Hauts-de-France and Normandie, Chambres d'agriculture Charente, Dordogne, Hérault and Lozère
Website: http://www.legvalue.eu/
Nutri2Cycle
Improving carbon, nitrogen and phosphore cycle control at farm and regional levels to decrease greenhouse gas emission and their environemental pollution.
Start-End: 2018-2022
Coordinator: Ghent University (Belgium)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambre d'agriculture Charente-Maritime
Website: under construction
SUPER-G
Optimising permanent grassland productivity, whilst supporting biodiversity by co-developping sustainable systems and policies with farmers and policy makers.
Start-End: 2018-2023
Coordinator: Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambres régionales d'agriculture Grand Est and Normandie
Website: under construction
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
SARMENTI
Developping sensors to monitor nutrients in the soil in real time and to control fertilization.
Start-End: 2019-2021
Coordinator: CEA (France)
French Chambers of agriculture as participants: Chambre régionale d'agriculture Grand Est as third party of Terrasolis
Website: under construction
Contact
Please feel free to contact us for more info about our projects, skills and activities and for European project collaboration with us
UMS-APIE Team - Department Innovation, Développement et Pratiques agricoles of Chambres d'agriculture France/APCA : eu.projects@ apca.chambagri.fr