1. €1,3 billion
Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Rural Renaissance & Circular Bioeconomy Thematic Investment Platform
Patrick Barrett
Department of Agriculture, Food & Marine,
This presentation does not engage the Commission, please refer to the official documents.

2. Societal Challenge 2 overview
Societal Challenge 2 Work Programme
4 Calls
200+ projects selected – 1.3 Billion € committed
New larger budget calls – 1.3 Billion € available
SC-2 also includes a Public Private Partnership
Biobased Industries Public Private Partnership (BBI)
4 calls to date - 65 projects have been funded
SME instrument
Significant successes for Irish SME’s
EIC pilot

3. Societal Challenge 2 overview
Ireland
Eligible Proposals with Irish participants
Irish applicants in eligible proposals
Retained Proposals
Success Rate
All actions
280
403 overall
176 For Profit (incl. 147 SME)
110 HES
15 Public bodies
83 Research orgs
19 Other 79
28.21%
€50 million
(incl €1.2 million Other e.g. EJP)
Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge -2
IA - 36
RIA - 89
CSA -23
ERA-NET - 7
IA – 50
RIA - 156
CSA - 64
ERA-NET - 11
IA - 5
RIA - 22
CSA - 23
IA – 13.89%
RIA – 24.7%
CSA – 64%
ERA-NET – 100%
€22.5 million
Biobased Industries JTI 29 50 7
24.14%
€15.97 million
SME instrument 67 70 14
20.9%
€10.5 million

4. Invest in policies fit for the future:
Societal challenge 2 calls
Rural renaissance € 263 million for rural territories to become smarter, greener, more circular and better connected
Invest in policies fit for the future:
Modernizing policies to favour generation renewal and greater resilience and public goods delivery
Invest in businesses:
Developing small scale refineries, boosting regional bioeconomy and innovative supply chains
Go digital:
Making the promises of the digital revolution come true for farmers and rural people
Invest in people:
Boost innovation, co-creation and exploitation of knowledge by improving skills and innovation systems
The rural renaissance (RUR) call offers €263m to promote smarter, younger, greener, more circular and better-connected rural communities and value chains.
These are the 4 big objectives of this call, among which the emphasis is on making the digital transformation of society a reality for rural people and communities.
Let's see together of what we are talking about..

5. 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
Here you have, as for the SFS call, the share of budget and topics:
Almost €100m will be invested in innovation in value chains, with a focus on the circular economy. This will be a source of opportunity for new businesses and industries improving welfare in rural areas.
It will invest in further boosting knowledge exchange and innovation systems.
The RUR call will also provide €60m of funding for projects which will help modernise policies to favour so-called generation renewal (i.e. getting more young people interested in farming and rural business in general), increased capacity to adapt to climate and socio-economic changes and better environmental protection.
Last, but not least, Around €100m is dedicated to activities under both RUR and the ICT part of the work programme focused on the uptake and development of digital technologies and on exploring the impact of these changes to prepare for the future.
Type of actions :
RIA, IA, CSA

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

7. Rural renaissance topics (2018-2019)
Societal challenge 2 calls
Rural renaissance topics ( )
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 effective agro-environment delivery 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
3 topics – 37 M€
+ UNDER LEIT-ICT call
Agricultural cross-cutting integration platforms
1 ICT topics – 15 M€
4 topics – 60 M€
4 topics – 57 M€
RUR+ICT:
4 topics – 52 M€
2 topics – 27 M€

8. Rural renaissance topics (2018)
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
Socio-economic impacts of digitisation
Contracts for effective agro-environment delivery inc:
Land tenure
Result-based policies
Collective delivery
Analytical tools and models
New models for policy
Closing nutrient cycles:
Properties and impacts of biofertilisers
Regional and local bio-based economies
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
4 topics – 49 M€
2 topics – 9 M€
3 topics – 37 M€
1 topic – 12 M€

9. From farm to society: understanding dynamics and modernising policies
Building modern rural policies on long-term visions and societal engagement (CSA+RIA – 23M€)
Rural society-science-policy hub (CSA-5M€)*
Renewing generations, jobs and farms (RIA – 12M€) *
Resilient mountain value chains (RIA – 6M€)
Socio-economic impacts of digitisation of agriculture and rural areas (RIA – 5M€) *
Contracts for effective and lasting delivery of agri- environmental public goods (RIA – 15M€) *
Analytical tools and models to support policies related to agriculture and food (RIA – 17M€)
Developing new models supporting policies (RIA-12M€) *
Modelling international trade in agri-food (RIA-5M€)
4 topics – 60 M€ (* )
© Pictures Fotolia.com: Photyo # ; Stepmar #

10. Focus Areas
Focus Area 'Connecting economic and environmental gains – the Circular Economy' (CE)
Supporting the circular economy policy:
Ensure that growth no longer requires increasing consumption of resources, energy, water and primary raw materials
Reduce waste, including from plastics
Create new business opportunities and safeguard competitive advantages
SC2 Contribution: 253M€ (Urban food systems, biowaste valorisation, bio-based plastics and fertilisers, bio-based models for rural communities)
€ 940 m

11. 4 topics – 57 M€ (*2018-2019) Closing nutrient cycles (RIA+IA–14M€)
Organising sustainable food and non food value chains under changing conditions
Closing nutrient cycles (RIA+IA–14M€)
Understanding properties and impacts of bio-based fertilisers (RIA- 6M€)*
Bio-based fertilisers from animal manure (IA-8M€)
Realising the potential of regional and local bio- based economies (CSA–3M€)*
Circular bio-based business models for rural communities (IA-20M€)
Sustainable wood value chains (IA-20M€)
Building with wood (IA-20M€)
4 topics – 57 M€ (* )
© Pictures Fotolia.com: Robert Kneschke # ; Chalabala # ; Celeste Clochard #

12. Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI – JU)
Objectives:
Resource efficiency
Sustainable low carbon economy
Increase economic growth in rural areas
Implementation
Establishing a sustainable biobased industry
Advanced biorefineries
Technologies / Chemicals / biomaterials
Business models / whole value chains / supply / biorefineries / consumers / clusters / connections
Flagship biorefinery plants / technologies / business models / cost performance
Reduction in the use of fossil fuels vs. biobased materials for material, chemical, energy & fuel production
PPPs are an important element for SC-2 implementation
SC-2 is complemented by the BBI JTI
Feedstock
Processing
Products
Markets
Dec 2017 Pre-published
April Launch
Sept 2018 Submissions
Dec 2018 Results outline

13. Focus Areas
Focus Area 'Digitising and transforming European industry and services' (DT)
Enhancing the benefits from the Digital Single Market Strategy:
Foster uptake of digital technologies and innovations & synergies with other key enabling technologies through
Cross-sectorial digital platforms and large scale pilots for co-creation with users (e.g. personalised health, ICT solutions for agriculture, automated driving, inclusive public services)
Innovation hubs
€ 1.7 bn
SC2 Contribution: 107M€ (Personalised nutrition, Blue and food clouds, Aquaculture 4.0, Digital innovation hubs)

14. Taking advantage of the digital revolution
ICT innovation for agriculture – Digital innovation hubs for agriculture (IA-20M€)*
Enabling the farm advisor community to prepare farmers for the digital age (CSA-7M€)*
Digital e-tools to modernise the CAP (IA-10M€)*
3 topics – 37 M€ (* )
And in the ICT call:
DT-ICT-08- Agricultural digital cross-cutting integration platforms (IA-15M€-2019)
© Fotolia.com: Budimir Jevtic #

15. Taking advantage of the digital revolution Technology Development
Uptake
Technology Development
Impact
RUR : Enabling the farm advisor's community to prepare farmers for the digital age (7M€)
DT-ICT : Agricultural digital integration platforms (IA – 30M€*)
RUR : Digital solutions and e-tools to modernise the CAP (IA – 10M€**)
RUR : Socio-economic impacts of digitisation of agriculture and rural areas (RIA – 5M€***)
DT-RUR ICT Innovation for Agriculture – Digital Innovation Hubs for Agriculture (IA – 20M€)
*Co-financed CNECT/AGRI, published under "Information and Communication Technologies" Work Programme ** Co-financed CNECT/AGRI, published in Societal Challenge 2 Work Programme *** See RUR call, "From farm to society: understanding dynamics and modernising policies"

16. Boosting innovation and enhancing human and social capital
Thematic networks compiling knowledge ready for practice (CSA – 22 M€)*
Fuelling the potential of advisors for innovation (CSA -5M€)
2 topics – 27 M€ (* )
© Pictures European Commission; Fotolia.com: Budimir Jevtic #

17. Circular Bio-economy TIP
What is an
Investment Platform?
Management fee
Performance fee
Sources of funding:
EU contribution (used as first risk absorber)
Possibly private investors / fund manager
Possibly other public investors (e.g. national banks; EIB)
Indicative only
Fund Manager
Invest-ment Plat-form
Investment strategy
Funding
Co-financing (e.g. via debt) a portfolio of projects
Eligible Projects
Revolving funds
Co-financing by others

18. Thank you Patrick.Barrett@agriculture.gov.ie