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African Union – European Union Partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA)

Funder
European Commission · Horizon Europe
Award amount
Up to €6,750,000
Deadline
September 23, 2027
Eligible countries
European Union, United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Israel, Global

Summary

Forthcoming EU call topic HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-09 · HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions. Part of call HORIZON-CL6-2027-02: Call 02 - single stage (2027). Opens 2027-04-20; next deadline 2027-09-23. Topic page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-09

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes: - the coordination of Research and Innovation Policies of AU and EU Members in the Working Group on FNSSA is improved; - improved coordination of the portfolio of projects funded under the first priority on FNSSA of the African Union – European Union High-level Policy Dialogue across all funding instruments of the EU and the AU and its members, in particular the EU Research Framework Programme, Co-funding instruments, the DeSIRA programme and others.

Scope: Proposals should: - implement the AU-EU roadmap by strengthening the strategic functioning and capacities of the FNSSA Working Group. Develop a toolkit of measures and provide robust scientific support, as well as practical administrative help, to enable a better-structured organisation; - operationalise the International Research Consortium (IRC) as a platform to implement the roadmap on food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture (FNSSA) by improving the learning environment, including communication channels, to support multi stakeholder networks and to strengthen R&I coordination and funding also by the use of Financial Support to Third Parties as well as by the use of cascading funding; - provide a platform for funders and seed funding to further develop and/or scale-up technical and social innovations created by a previous HLPD-FNSSA[1] projects. These projects must have been funded in support of the EU-AU FNSSA roadmap 2016-2026 and funded by one of the instruments of EU-AU R&I collaboration, they include African Union Research Grants, ERA-Nets…

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