Partnerships in Food and Agriculture

The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) is a €2 billion partnership between the European Union and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) that funds projects advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe. The role of Circular Bio-based Europe is to bring together various actors from bio-based industries, ranging from farmers to scientists, to solve the technological, regulatory and market challenges of the sector. 

- Type: Institutionalised 
- Predecessor: Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) 
- Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
- CBE Annual Work Programme 2024

Go to the CBE Website

The call for proposals will open on 24 April 2024, and the call deadline is planned for 18 September 2024. The topics are published on the CBE website.

Swiss entities are eligible to participate as associated partners in the 2024 calls and if successful, funding will be secured via SERI. For further information, please check here.

Biodiversa+ is the European co-funded biodiversity partnership supporting excellent research on biodiversity with an impact for policy and society. It was jointly developed by BiodivERsA and the European Commission. The Partnership aims to connect science, policy and practice for transformative change. 

- Type: Co-funded 
- Predecessor: Biodiversa 

Go to the Biodiversa+ webpage.

Published on the Biodiversa+ webpage.

Swiss National Science Foundation. Further information can be found on the SNSF webpage.

The Water4All Partnership, cofunded by the European Union within the frame of the Horizon Europe programme, aims at enabling water security for all in the long term through boosting systemic transformations and changes across the entire research – water innovation pipeline, fostering the matchmaking between problem owners and solution providers.

- Type: Co-funded 
- Predecessor: Water JPI 

Go to the Water4All webpage

Published on the Water4All webpage

Swiss National Science Foundation. Further information can be found on the SNSF webpage.

The Partnership aim is to reduce fragmentation by linking existing activities and efforts to combine and align pan-European, regional and national investments and the identified socio-political priorities for marine and maritime R&I.

- Type: Co-funded 
- Predecessor: JPI Oceans 

Go to the Blue Partnership website

Published on partnership website

None. Swiss entities are eligible to participate at their own costs.

This partnership will support sustainable agriculture in the EU, policy monitoring and policy implementation by using digital and data technologies in environmental observation. The partnership will generate EU-wide data sets and information through combining geospatial and Earth Observation datasets. The goal is to provide solutions to the agricultural sector allowing for more efficient, environmentally friendly, and profitable production.

- Type: Co-funded 
- Predecessor: EuroGEO initiative / ERA-PLANET 
- Proposal (March 2022)

Partnership is planned for the Work Programme 2023/4, more details will be provided at a later stage.

This partnership will provide an overarching platform and process to underpin the needed transition to sustainable food systems, provide solutions to the Farm to Fork strategy by connecting national, regional and European research and innovation programmes and food systems actors, to deliver co-benefits for nutrition, climate, circularity and communities. The partnership will foster alignment, boost investment, and increase the societal relevance, impact, uptake and visibility of research and innovation and strengthen EU leadership in tackling food system transformation.

- Type: Co-funded 
- Predecessor: None 

Partnership is planned for the Work Programme 2023/4, more details will be provided at a later stage

The European Partnership for Animal Health and Welfare aims to deliver key knowledge, services, tools and products to improve the monitoring and control of animal infectious diseases and animal welfare in a coordinated way. It will strengthen the preparedness of all actors and stakeholders, and support evidence- based intervention and policy making. 

- Type: Co-funded 
- Predecessor: ERA-NET ICRAD 

Partnership is planned for the Work Programme 2023/4, more details will be provided at a later stage

The partnership aims to structure and support a network of living labs and research infrastructures accelerating the transition towards agroecology throughout Europe. It will provide spaces for long-term, site-specific, multi-stakeholder and real-life experimentation, and deliver ready-to adopt practices that support farmers in understanding and implementing agroecological practices at the scale needed for positive economic, environmental and social impacts.

- Type: Co-funded 
- Predecessor: None 

Go to Agroecology webpage.

The Call on "Fostering Agroecology at farm and landscapes level" is open now.

Federal Office for Agriculture will fund participation of Swiss partners. Please contact FOAG directly for further information.