ICT-AGRI News
30/06/2010 Great interest in the first ICT-AGRI transnational call
There has been a large interest in the first ICT-AGRI Call for research proposals in the field of ICT and robotics in agriculture. The Call Secretariat has received 44 pre-proposals for a request of funding close to 20 mio. EUR.
31 May 2010 was the deadline for submission of pre-proposals for the first ICT-AGRI call ‘Integrated ICT and automation for sustainable agricultural production’. There has been a large interest in the call for research proposals throughout Europe and associated countries.
Phase-1 Call Statistics
The ICT-AGRI Call Secretariat received 44 pre-proposals for a total request of funding of almost 20 mio. EUR. After a review of the submitted pre-proposals the Funders Group selected 14 project Consortia to go through to the second phase of the call.
|
|
DK |
BE |
FI |
FR |
DE |
GR |
IL |
IT |
LV |
CH |
TR |
NL |
IE |
ES |
Total |
|
Proposals coordinated |
6 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
8 |
10 |
3 |
8 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
44 |
|
Proposal participated |
22 |
11 |
9 |
3 |
25 |
23 |
12 |
28 |
5 |
8 |
20 |
5 |
1 |
6 |
178 |
|
Total own funding, k€ |
223 |
255 |
384 |
0 |
291 |
181 |
122 |
631 |
0 |
242 |
59 |
187 |
37 |
222 |
2833 |
|
Total ICT-AGRI funding, k€ |
3979 |
696 |
955 |
195 |
2728 |
1907 |
896 |
4025 |
375 |
697 |
1501 |
200 |
30 |
463 |
18647 |
* Other countries providing own funding: Austria 89k€, UK 5k€ and US (amount not specified).
Evaluation of Full Proposals
The 14 project consortia that were selected to proceed to the 2nd phase of the call process have now been invited to submit a full proposal.The deadline for submission of full proposals is 17 September 2010.
The full proposals will be evaluated by an international Expert Evaluation Panel (EEP) to assess the scientific quality and content. The EEP will make an overall assessment of the scientific merit and make a prioritised list with funding recommendations.
Following the scientific review the funding agencies will decide on the final list of projects to be funded based on the recommendations of the EEP and their own assessment and policy needs in view of funding available.
It is expected that the funding decision will be ready during November 2010 and the successful project consortia are expected to initiate their projects end of 2010/beginning of 2011.
Next ICT-AGRI call for research proposals
The ICT-AGRI funding agencies are expecting to launch the next ICT-AGRI call during 2011. Keep an eye with the ICT-AGRI website and newsletter to be kept informed about coming calls as well as other ICT-AGRI activities – such as the mapping of the ICT research landscape and strategic research agenda.
For more information about the ICT-AGRI call please contact the ICT-AGRI Call Secretariat or your ICT-AGRI National Contact Points.
