European research
The European Union is financing research under the multi-annual Framework Programmes (FP), which among other issues cover environment, food safety and quality, animal health and welfare etc. Thus research in sustainable and organic farming is also included, and ICROFS has since 2003 participated in the following EU research projects:
CORE Organic II
CORE Organic II is a European transnational research cooperation project supported by the European Commission. This project runs for three years, 2010-2013 and is coordinated by ICROFS. Read more at www.coreorganic2.org |
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CORE Organic
The main idea of the FP6 ERA-net, "Coordination of European trans-national research in organic food and farming" (CORE Organic) was the transnational coordination of national and regional research funding to support transnational research projects in organic food and farming of common interest of several European countries. . The coordination project was carried out over 3 years in the period 2004-2007, and ICROFS (formerly DARCOF) was the coordinator of the project (more information can be found at www.coreorganic.org).
The main objective of the project was to enhance the quality, relevance and resource utilization in organic food and farming research. As part of the project the 13 partners from 11 countries launched 8 trans-nationally funded research projects with a total budget of about 8.3 million EUR. These CORE Organic projects are running for three years from 2007-2010.
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CORE Organic short results 2009/2010
This collection of one-page project presentations gives an overview of preliminary results and perspectives of the eight CORE Organic projects.
See leaflet about CORE Organic short results 2009/2010...
Go to the CORE Research Portal...
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CORE Organic Funding Body Network (FBN)
The CORE Organic Funding Body Network was set up in 2007 to continue and broaden the collaboration after the end of the first CORE Organic ERA-net project, and since then, the CORE Organic FBN has expanded to 23 countries. The plan of the Funding Body Network is to apply for an ERA-net II coordination project under FP7 in 2009 in order to launch even more projects and to contribute to the development of a long-term strategy and framework for a common programme for transnational organic food and farming research.
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Transparent_Food
ICROFS is involved in the EU FP7 research project, Transparent_Food. This project aims at "contributing to the development of transparency in the sector by supporting understanding of its complexities, identifying the present state-of-the-art, learning from experiences, making stakeholders aware, specifying deficiencies and research needs, and formulating a research framework for facilitating future research initiatives”.
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VOA3R
The EU FP7 research project, VOA3R, Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository, is about sharing scientific and scholarly research related to agriculture, food, and environment.
The VOA3R platform aims at re-using existing and mature metadata and semantics technology to deploy an advanced, community-focused integrated service for the retrieval of relevant open content and data that includes explicit models of the scholarly methods and procedures used and of the practical tasks targeted by applied research. Read more at http://voa3r.eu... |
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CERTCOST
The research project, "Economic Analysis of Certification Systems for Organic Food and Farming" (CERTCOST) is a collaborative research project under EU FP7. The project runs for three years, from September 2008 to August 2011, and it involves 10 partners from 7 countries. The main objective of the project is to generate research-based recommendations to relevant stakeholders on how to improve the organic food certification system in terms of efficiency, transparency and cost effectiveness. More information can be foudn at www.certcost.org).
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QualityLowInputFood (QLIF)
The research project, QualityLowInputFood is an integrated research project under FP6, which was carried out over 5 years in the period, March 2004 – February 2009. The project involved 31 European partners within different research disciplines The goal of the project was to improve the quality and food safety and to reduce the costs in organic and "low input" food production systems (more information can be found at www.qlif.org)
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EEC 2092/91(Organic) Revision
The research project, “Research to Support Revision of the EU Regulation on Organic Agriculture” (EEC 2092/91 Revision) is a strategic research project under FP6. The 3 year project was carried out in the period 2004 – 2007, and it involved 9 partners from 9 countries. ICROFS (formerly DARCOF) was the coordinator of the project and it had the overall objective to provide research based recommendations for the development of the Council regulation on organic agriculture (EEC No. 2092/91) (More information can be found at www.organic-revision.org).
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Organic Inputs Evaluation
The research project, “Harmonised and Standardised Procedures for Evaluation of Plant Protection Products, Fertilizers and Soil Conditioners for Use in Organic Agriculture” (Organic Inputs Evaluation) is a concerted action under FP5. The 3 year project was carried out in the period 2003 – 2005, and it involved 12 partners from 8 countries. The objective of the project was to develop recommendations for harmonization and standardization of procedures for evaluation of plant protection products, fertilizers and soil conditioners for use in organic agriculture according to the Council Regulation EEC No. 2092/91.ICROFS (formerly DARCOF) was the administrative coordinator of the project (more information can be found at www.organicinputs.org).
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EISFOM
The research project, “European Information System for Organic Markets” (EISfOM) is a concerted action under FP5. The 3 year project was carried out in the period 2003 – 2006, and it involved 9 partners from 8 countries. The aim of the project was to build up a framework for reporting valid and reliable data for relevant production and market data about the European organic sector in order to meet the needs of policy makers, farmers, processors, wholesalers and other actors involved in organic markets (more information can be found at www.eisfom.org).
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SAFO
The research project, “Sustaining Animal Health and Food Safety in Organic Farming” (SAFO) is a concerted action under FP5 The 3 year project was carried out in the period 2003 – 2006, and it involved 26 partners from 20 countries. The main objective of the project was to improve food safety and sustaining animal health in organic farming in existing member states and candidate member countries of the European Union through exchange and active communication of research results and conclusions between researchers, policy makers, farmers and the wider stakeholder community including consumers (more information can be found at www.safonetwork.org).
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