EU-HORIZON 2020 Societal challenges - Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy - 2014-2020

Instrument/Program level: 
European
Name of the instrument/Program: 
HORIZON 2020
Instrument/Program application areas: 
Societal challenges - Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy
Instrument/Program eligible areas: 
BELGIUM
CZECH REPUBLIC
DANMARK
GERMANY
EESTI
IRELAND
SPAIN
FRANCE
CROATIA
ITALY
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG
HUNGARY
MALTA
NETHERLANDS
AUSTRIA
POLAND
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
SLOVENIA
SLOVAKIA
FINLAND
SWEDEN
UNITED KINGDOM
GREECE
CYPRUS
BULGARIA
Managing authority: 

Directorate-General for Research and Innovation European Commission

Objectives: 

Securing sufficient supplies of safe, healthy and high quality food and other bio-based products, by developing productive, sustainable and resource-efficient primary production systems, fostering related ecosystem services and the recovery of biological diversity, alongside competitive and low-carbon supply, processing and marketing chains.

Eligible thematics in line with S3: 
Agrifood processing
Bio-processes of biomasses
Blue growth
Climate Change Mitigation
Environmental technologies, renewable energies & resource efficiency
Food & nutrition (ingredients and modification of food, materials, smart packaging, food quality, quality assurance, food production technologies)
Green & Clean energy & technologies
Smart manufacturing and related services
Action typologies: 
Sharing and investments in cross-border research facilities
Actions to improve sustainable linkages among actors of the innovation systems for strengthening regional innovation capacity
Best practices exchange (Interregional Cooperation)
Research roadmapping, stimulating learning and exchange, expanding the range of disciplines (including the life sciences and humanities where relevant), involving multi-actor or citizen
Increasing skills of employees and entrepreneurs regarding new technologies, innovative products, services, processes and social innovation
Beneficiaries: 
Local public authority
Regional public authority
National public authority
Sectorial agency
Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Interest groups including NGOs
Higher education and research
Education/training centre and school
Start up
Large enterprise, enterprise excluding SME
SME
Business support organisation
EGTC
General public
International organization, EEIG under national law
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Public equivalent body
International organisation
Program contribution maximum: 
70%
Program Budget: 
3 851 000 000,00 €