Food, bio-economy, natural resources, agriculture and environment

The European Commission is looking for strategies for land decontamination and reuse, and innovative ideas on how to implement carbon-farming practices. The deadline to apply is 27 September 2022.

An Info Day on the Mission Soil’s currently open call for proposals took place on 18 May. Potential applicants were able to learn about the kind of projects the European Commission would like to support with Horizon Europe funding. If you missed the session, watch the recordings!

With EU Green Week taking place from 30 May to 5 June, and in an exclusive video interview with REA, EU-funded project URBiNAT talks about the importance of social participation for co-creating cities worth living in where solutions are inspired by nature.

On World Bee Day, it is essential to pay homage to a variety of pollinating insects crucial for our food security. A number of EU projects, managed by REA, such as PoshBee and B-Good contribute to their sustained survival.

The EU-funded AMBER project has received the Outstanding International Impact of Research & Innovation award by the Swansea University for its work on how to fix Europe's broken rivers. The project created a Pan-European Atlas of In-Stream Barriers for fragmenting rivers. It also helped identify 25 000 km of rivers made to be free-flowing, a key component of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.

Whether boiled, roasted or baked, potatoes are delicious. Climate change however is threatening the EU’s potato supply! The EU-funded project ADAPT researches potato resilience to environmental stressors, like heat, drought and waterlogging.

A new high-protein microalgae strain developed by researchers has now been scaled up by Portuguese microalgae producer Allmicroalgae Natural Products as part of the EU-funded ProFuture project. The new Chlorella strain could be used to make vegan food products that not only are more nutritional but also taste better.

More than 10 EU-funded projects managed by REA are offering events on soil biodiversity, data analytics for a climate-resilient agriculture, forests restoration, urban bio-waste, sustainable food systems, and circular water management.

The event will bring together excellent projects and researchers mainly funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) to discuss how research and innovation could help restore and protect our oceans and waters. John Murray Roberts, coordinator of the EU-funded project iAtlantic, will speak in the panel about how to protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity. If interested, you can still attend.

Meet virtually or in Brussels for EU-funded projects advancing on urban regeneration, circular water and food systems, pesticides reduction, and more! In total, 29 research and innovation projects managed by the European Research Executive Agency (REA) are participating at the Fair section of the Festival. You can now discover in a visual the 29 projects living up to the ideals of the New European Bauhaus: beautiful, sustainable, together.