Phone: +32-2-2961434
Fax:+32-2-2964322
E-mail: xabier.goenaga@cec.eu.int
Phone +32-2-2955137 E-Mail Willem.Brugge@cec.eu.int
The funded projects address many important issues of concern to the sustainable management of our living resources.
Concerning Sustainable Agriculture and CAP support (5.1.1 and 5.4), selected projects include ways to improve the handling and transport of animals; new disease markers of pigs and cattle; rapid detection and prevention of a range of different plant diseases; ways to make organic farming more competitive; waste treatment on farms; landscape ecosystem and biodiversity management systems; introduction of a bond scheme to assist farmers in the transition towards a free market;
Concerning Non-Food development (5.2), the projects deal with the production of biofuels, bioplastics, and green chemicals from renewable biological resources.
Concerning Forestry (5.3), projects dealt with improving wood quality in a number of species, control of pests, and on eco-efficient forest operations while the forest industry projects concentrate on different eco-efficient processes, recycling technologies, and improvement of the finished product quality of wood products and paper
Concerning Fisheries (5.1.2 and 5.4), projects cover control of fish farm effluents; fish-meal and oil alternatives; interactions between birds and fisheries; coastal zone problems; Aquaculture; ways to evaluate the impact of the Common Fisheries Policy and fisheries management.
Concerning Rural development (5.5), selected projects deal with landscape management and evaluation of ecosystems; urban impact; impact of accession countries; investment, farm diversification and agro-marketing.
| Number of Calls/evaluations: | 4 |
| Projects Selected: | 220 |
| Proposals submitted: | 1264 |
| Proposals ineligible | 194 (15%) |
| Selection rate: | 17.4% |
| Selected | |
| Shared Cost RTD | 195 |
| Shared Cost Demo | 2 |
| Combined RTD/Demo | 4 |
| Thematic Networks | 2 |
| Concerted Actions | 17 |
| Selected | Euros |
| Total Cost | 502.8 M |
| Total EU Contribution | 340.8 M |
| Avg Total Cost | 2.3 M |
| Avg EU Contribution | 1.5 M |
| Percentage EU Contribution | 67.8 % |
| Selected | |
| Nb of Participants | 1744 |
| Public Authority | 1097 |
| International Organisation | 11 |
| Joint Research Center | 15 |
| Public Commercial Sector | 43 |
| Private Commercial | 266 |
| EEIG | 3 |
| Private non Profit | 275 |
| Other | 34 |
| Avg Project Duration | 36 months |
Previously funded projects
Information
and results from projects in Agriculture Forestry and Rural development funded
in the previous fourth framework FAIR programme can be found at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/agro/fair/en/index.html
AND
For FAIR programme Non-Food and Forest products research results at: http://www.nf-2000.org/
All the
documents needed to prepare and submit a an RTD proposal are available on the
Web at: www.cordis.lu/life
Requests for documents, and other questions can be addressed to:
quality-of-life@cec.eu.int -
fax: +322.299.1860
EU Contacts for Key Action 5
| Xabier
Goenaga (Head of Unit) for Agriculture and Forestry. Phone: +32-2-2961434 Fax:+32-2-2964322 E-mail: xabier.goenaga@cec.eu.int Willem Brugge
(Head of Unit) for Fisheries. | Phone +32-2-2955137 E-Mail Willem.Brugge@cec.eu.int |
SCIENTIFIC OFFICERS
| Telephone Brussels | |
| Alexandros.Arabatzis@cec.eu.int | +32 2 2969402 |
| Sjur.BAARDSEN@cec.eu.int | +32 2 2995518 |
| Massimo.Burioni@cec.eu.int | +32 2 2959653 |
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