1. €1,3 billion
Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
José RUIZ ESPI
European Commission – DG AGRI
This presentation does not engage the Commission, please refer to the official documents.

2. The policy context Global commitments European policies
CAP & EIP-AGRI
Climate & energy
Bioeconomy strategy
Circular economy
Integrated Maritime
and common fisheries
policies
Digital single
market

3. Most important SDGs covered by SC2

4. Underpinning R&I strategic approaches
Strategic approach to EU agricultural research and innovation
Food 2030
Bioeconomy strategy
(R&I component)

5. Manage our resources wisely to nourish people sustainably
Foster functional ecosystems, sustainable food systems, and healthy lifestyles
Address climate change and resilience on land and sea
Boost major innovations on land and at sea  new products, value chains and markets
Develop smart, connected territories and value chains in rural and coastal areas
Make the transition towards a circular bioeconomy
5 priorities
Manage our resources wisely to nourish people sustainably
Understand, preserve and valorise oceans
Develop smarter, greener, circular rural economies
3 missions
Sustainable food security
Blue Growth
Rural Renaissance
Circular Bioeconomy
investment platform
3 calls + FI
Dynamic & innovative food and farming sectors
Resource & climate-smart eco-healthy food production and consumption
Productive, healthy, resilient seas and oceans
Sustainable aquatic resources for food and bio-based value chains
Strong blue economy
Sustainable growth based on circularity and connectedness
Enhanced innovation systems
Strong & attractive rural areas
De-risking investments in innovative technologies fostering industrial, rural and coastal development
Key impacts

6. Topic distribution & budget distribution between calls

7. Societal challenge 2 contributions to focus areas
Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future
203 M€
Plants, proteins, climate-smart farming, soils, food systems, marine resources, wood value chains
Digitising and transforming European industry and services
107 M€
Personalised nutrition, Blue and food clouds, Aquaculture 4.0, Digital innovation hubs, digital integration platforms
Connecting economic and environmental gains – the Circular Economy
253 M€
Urban food systems, biowaste valorisation, bio-based plastics and fertilisers, bio-based models for rural communities

8. A more strategic and focused approach

9. Instruments: balancing close to market actions with investment in new knowledge

10. Open innovation, open science, open to the world
€500 mio for multi-actor projects (interactive innovation linked to EIP-AGRI)
Open science
Research data sharing by default
Open science clouds: Food cloud demonstrators (10M€) & Blue cloud services (6M€)
Open to the world
89M€ on EU-AFRICA partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (11 projects): food systems, sustainable intensification and income diversification
23M€ on EU-CHINA (5 projects): food safety, soil management and bio-based fertilisers
64M€ on "All Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance" (8 projects):coordination, marine ecosystems and new value chains
PRIMA
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11. Cross-cutting approaches
A strong commitment to Responsible research and innovation
31 topics under multi-actor approach (500M€ - over 80 grants)
27 topics with strong public engagement requirement
2 topics with a gender dimension
A wide space for Social sciences and humanities integration
55 topics flagged for SSH (75%)
Key contributions to global goals (Rio-markers)
Climate
Sustainable development
Biodiversity

12. Call deadlines 2018 2019 Type of action Single stage 13 Feb. 2018
23 Jan. 2019
CSA, IA, EJP, ERANET…
First stage
RIA
Second stage
11 Sept. 2018
4 Sept. 2019

13. Sustainable Food Security

14. Sustainable food security – 753M€ (2018-2020)
From functional ecosystems to healthy food
18 Topics – 391 M€
Environment and climate smart food production and consumption
7 Topics – 132M€
Building capacities
6 Topics – 115 M€
Targeted international cooperation Topics – 115M€
Type of actions :
RIA, IA, CSA, EJP, ERANET

15. Sustainable food security topics (2018-2019)
From functional ecosystems to healthy food
Environment/ Climate-smart Food production and consumption
Building capacities
Targeted international cooperation
Biodiversity in action
Microbiome
Integrated health approaches
IPM
Healthy beekeeping
Animal welfare
Anti-microbials and animal production
African Swine fever
Personnalised nutrition
Plant breeding
Healthy sust. food
Alternative proteins
Climate-smart farming
EJP soils
Integrated water management
Citizen-driven food system approaches in cities
Valorising urban biowaste
Food cloud
Monitoring R&I investments
GenRes & pre- breeding
Plant-variety testing
Agri-Aqua labs
ERANETs
Microbiome coordination and IBF
EU-Africa
Support FNSSA implementation
Food systems
Sustainable intensification
EU-China
Food safety controls
Soils management
Fertilisers from biogas digestate
13 topics – 235 M€
5 topics – 107 M€
6 topics – 91 M€
7 topics – 82 M€

16. Rural renaissance

17. Rural renaissance – 263M€ (2018-2020)
From farm to society: understanding dynamics and modernising policies
4 Topics €60 mio
Organising sustainable food and non-food value chains under changing conditions
5 Topics - €125 mio
Taking advantage of the digital revolution 3 Topics - €37 mio
(+2 topics €30 mio under ICT call)
Boosting innovation and enhancing human and social capital
3 Topics - €41 mio
Type of actions :
RIA, IA, CSA

18. Rural renaissance topics (2018-2019)
Dynamics & policies
Food & non-food Value chains
Taking advantage of the digital revolution
Innovation and human capital
Modern policies from long-term visions & societal engagement:
Science-policy-society hub
Generation renewal
Mountain value chains and climate change
Socio-economic impacts of digitisation
Contracts for delivery of agro-environmental public goods inc:
Land tenure
Result-based policies
Collective delivery
Analytical tools and models
New models for policy
Modelling trade
Closing nutrient cycles:
Properties and impacts of biofertilisers
Bio-based fertilisers from manure
Bio-based fertilisers from other by products
Regional and local bio-based economies
Circular bio-based business models for rural communities
Sustainable wood value chains
Building with wood
Resilient forest systems
Digital innovation hubs for agriculture
Preparing advisors for the digital age
Digital solutions and e-tools to modernise the CAP
Thematic networks compiling knowledge ready for practice
Fuelling the potential of advisors for innovation
+ UNDER LEIT-ICT call
Agricultural cross-cutting integration platforms

19. Widening the participation
Visegrad Group, BIOEAST initiative (2016)  low participation of EU-13 in Societal challenge 2
Topics proposed for WP could not be taken fully on board
But elements considered, and efforts to identify areas of interest  11 "EU13-friendly" topics, worth € 150 M.
Examples:
SFS : Vaccines against regulated diseases: African swine fever
SFS : Integrated water management at the small agriculture catchment
RUR : Realising the potential of regional and local bio-based economies
RUR : Circular bio-based business models for rural communities

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