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Sister Projects
ScaleAgData | Upscaling (real-time) sensor data for EU-wide monitoring of production and agri-environmental conditions
ScaleAgData aims at contributing to the overall competitiveness and sustainability performance of the European agricultural sector, and to the work of the Horizon Europe candidate partnership “Agriculture of Data” and the Soil Mission.
PREMIERE | Improving preparation of multi-actor projects to enable the relevant actors to work in a co-creative way
PREMIERE aims to support the implementation of innovative governance and sound decision making in policy and administration for the green transition through insights and tools.
EU-funded projects
ACT4CAP27 | Advancing Capacity and analytical Tools for supporting Common Agricultural Policies post 2027
ACT4CAP27 aims to develop an Interactive Roadmap for guiding EU, national and regional policy makers weigh up policy objectives towards more sustainable outcomes.
End date: 2029
Partners in Tools4CAP: Ecorys, IIASA, EuroCARE, WUR
modernAKIS | Modernisation of Agriculture through more efficient and effective Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems
The project aims to improve AKIS actors’ capacities to leverage individual, organizational and systemic resources needed for the transformation towards more coherent, effective, and efficient AKIS systems and the transition to a more sustainable management and use of natural resources in farming and forestry.
End date: 2029
Partners in Tools4CAP: Teagasc, AKI
MEF4CAP | Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
MEF4CAP aims to draw on the insights and perspectives of all relevant stakeholders to identify best practices, ensure the inclusion of all relevant developments and to discuss the potential of widening their application.
End date: 2023
Partners in Tools4CAP: ITACyL, NP, TEAGASC, WUR
MINDSTEP | Modelling individual decisions to support the European policies related to agriculture
MINDSTEP aims to improve exploitation of available agricultural and biophysical data and will include the individual decision making (IDM) unit in policy models.
End date: 2023
Partners in Tools4CAP: WUR
Ruralization | The opening of rural areas to renew rural generations, jobs and farms
RURALIZATION aims at triggering a process of ruralisation, that is, a development towards a new rural frontier where new generations find economic and social opportunities.
End date: 2023
Partners in Tools4CAP: TEAGASC
DESIRA | Digitalisation: Economic and Social Impacts on Rural Areas
DESIRA aims to improve the capacity of society and political bodies to respond to the challenges that digitalisation generates in agriculture, forestry and rural areas.
End date: 2023
Partners in Tools4CAP: AEIDL, WUR
SHERPA | Sustainable Hub to Engage into Rural Policies with Actors
SHERPA aims to gather knowledge that contributes to the formulation of recommendations for future policies relevant to EU rural areas, by creating a science-society-policy interface.
End date: 2023
Partners in Tools4CAP: Ecorys (coord.), ERDN, AEIDL
RUSTIK | Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for improved policy processes
RUSTIK aims to enable rural communities’ actors and policy makers to design better strategies, initiatives and policies fostering sustainability transitions of rural areas.
End date: 2026
Partners in Tools4CAP: IfLS (coord.), UL
GRANULAR | Giving Rural Actors Novel data and re-Useable tools to Lead public Action in Rural areas
GRANULAR aims at generating new datasets, tools and methods to understand the characteristics, dynamics and drivers of rural areas.
End date: 2026
Partners in Tools4CAP: AEIDL, Ecorys
LANDSUPPORT | Development of Integrated Web-Based Land Decision Support System Aiming Towards the Implementation of Policies for Agriculture and Environment
LANDSUPPORT aimed at developing a web-based completely free, open-access GeoSpatial Decision Support System (S-DSS) devoted to reconciling agriculture, environmental sustainability and policy implementation.
End date: 2022
LAMASUS | LAnd use and MAnagement modelling for SUStainable governance
LAMASUS aims to develop an integrated modelling toolbox for the assessment and monitoring of land-related policies.
End date: 2026
Partners in Tools4CAP: IIASA, EuroCare
BRIGHT SPACE | Designing a Roadmap for Effective and Sustainable Strategies for Assessing and Addressing the Challenges of EU Agriculture to Navigate within a Safe and Just Operating Space
BRIGHT SPACE aims to design effective and sustainable strategies to navigate within a Safe and Just Operating Space towards a safe and just operating space for EU agriculture.
End date: 2027
Partners in Tools4CAP: WUR, EuroCARE, IIASA
AGRICORE | Agent-based support tool for the development of agriculture policies
AGRICORE aims to to develop a new generation of ABM tool taking advantage of the latest progress in computational science and ICT (including advances in big data, artificial intelligence algorithms, mathematical solvers and cloud computing services) as a means to overcome the challenges that are still hampering their capacity for improving new policies design and for performing the related socio-economic and environmental assessments at various geographic scales – from regional to global.
End date: 2024
BESTMAP | Behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy
BESTMAP aims to develop a framework that links economic modelling with individual-farm agent-based models. It will quantitatively model, map and monitor the impact of policy scenarios on the environment, climate system, delivery of ecosystem services, biodiversity as well as socio-economic metrics such as employment.
End date: 2024
BATModel | Better Agri-food Trade Modelling for Policy Analysis
BATModel aims to improve existing trade modelling tools and approaches, equipped for the analysis of 21st century trade issues with a focus on agriculture and food to support policy analysis.
End date: 2024
Partners in Tools4CAP: WUR
MATS | Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable
MATS aims to identify key leverage points for changes in agricultural trade policy that foster the positive and reduce the negative impacts of trade on sustainable development and human rights.
End date: 2024
TRADE4SD | Fostering the positive linkages between trade and sustainable development
TRADE4SD will develop proposals for a more sustainability-oriented agricultural trade policy. Recommendations will be formulated in collaboration with society.
End date: 2025
Research Executive Agency – REA
Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development (European Commission)
Directorate General for Climate Action (European Commission)
Directorate General for Environment (European Commission)
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (European Parliament)
EU CAP Network
Rural Pact Support Office (RPSO)
European Innovation Partnership for Agriculture (EIP-AGRI)
European Evaluation Helpdesk for Rural Development
National Rural Networks
- Austrian Rural Network
- Belgium: Flemish Rural Network
- Belgium: Walloon Rural Network
- Bulgarian Rural Network
- Croatian National Rural Network
- Cyprus Rural Network
- Czech Rural Network
- Danish Rural Network
- Dutch Rural Network
- Estonian Rural Network
- Finnish Rural Network
- French Rural Network
- German Rural Network
- Greek Rural Network
- Hungarian Rural Network
- Irish Rural Network
- Italian Rural Network
- Latvian Rural Network
- Lithuanian Rural Network
- Luxembourg Rural Network
- Maltese Rural Network
- Polish Rural Network
- Portuguese Rural Network
- Romanian Rural Network
- Slovak Rural Network
- Slovenian National Rural Network
- Spanish Rural Network
- Swedish Rural Network
- Scottish Rural Network