ICT-AGRI-3 Cofund Planning Meeting

Time and Date: 10:00-17:00, 26 September 2018

Location: Hendrik Consience, Koning Albert II-Laan 15, 1210 Brussel,

Room: Conscience – 1A04

AGENDA

10:00 Welcome and Introduction

10:00 – 10:20: Welcome and objectives for this meeting – Niels Gøtke, DASHE, Coordinator of ICT-AGRI

10:20 Trends in digitising the agri-food sector / What should the ERA-NET be about?

10:20 – 10:30: What should the ERA-NET be about? – Niels Gøtke, DASHE

10:30 – 11:10: Trends in digitising the agri-food sector – Astrid Willener, FOAG & Johannes Pfeifer, BLE

a. ICT-AGRI SRIA - Trends and Challenges

b. Introduction to discussion paper

11:10 – 11:20: Conclusion and summing up

11:20: Lessons learned – Cofund SusAn – Elke Saggau, BLE

11:30 The ERA-NET Cofund – Andrei Lintu, DG Research and Innovation

12:00 Financial issues & legal requirements – Per Mogensen, DASHE

12:30 Lunch

13:00 Proposed Structure for the Cofund – Niels Gøtke, DASHE

a. Ambition for Additional Activities

b. Coordination and Management

c. Work Package leaders

14:00 Call Text Scope (preliminary discussions) – All partners

a. Call timeline

b. Call text

15:45 Timeline and next steps– Coordination team

a. Timeline

b. Writing team

c. Meetings

d. Partner contributions (legal documents)

e. Discussion on new acronym

16:30 AOB

17:00 END OF MEETING

1. Welcome to planning ICT-enabled agri-foodsystems ERA-NET Cofund planning meeting.

Niels Gøtke

Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (DASHE)

10:00 – 10:20: Welcome and objectives for this meeting – Niels Gøtke, DASHE, Coordinator of ICT-AGRI

Objectives for this meeting

• Agree on general structure of the “ICT-enabled agri-food systems” Cofund

• Agree on management and coordination

• Agree on Work Package leaders

• Start Discussion on call text scope

• Agree on next steps.

Acronym Organisation Country

Food Safety and Biotechnology Department

Armenian National Agrarian University

Armenia

BMNT Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism Austria

ILVO

EIGEN VERMOGEN VAN HET INSTITUUT VOOR LANDBOUW EN

VISSERIJONDERZOEK Belgium

VLAIO

AGENTSCHAP VOOR INNOVATIE DOOR WETENSCHAP EN

TECHNOLOGIE Belgium

Flemish Government, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMY, SCIENCE &

INNOVATION, Research Division Belgium

Agricultural University - Plovdiv Bulgaria

Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus Cyprus

DASHE Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education Denmark

DAFA Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Danish AgriFish Agency Denmark

IFD Innovation Fund Denmark Denmark

GUDP / MUDP Grønt / Miljøteknologisk Udviklings- og Demonstrationsprogram Denmark

Estonian Research Council or the Ministry on Rural Affairs Estonia

MMM Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Finland

IRSTEA

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES

POUR L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET L'AGRICULTURE France

ANR The French National Research Agency France

BLE Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung Germany

BMELV Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz Germany

BMBF Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany

GRNET Greek Research & Technology Network Greece

GSRT General Secretariat for Research and Technology Greece

AM Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture Hungary

RANNIS The Icelandic Centre for Research Iceland

MATIS Matis ltd. Iceland

TEAGASC TEAGASC - Agriculture and Food Development Authority Ireland

”ICT-AGRI-3” / ICT-enabled agri food systems Consortium (50 potential partners) – Missing countries?

Acronym Organisation Country

MARD Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Israel

ISERD The Israel Innovation Authority Israel

MIPAAF Ministry of Agriculture Food and Forestry Policies Italy

LAS Latvian Academy of Science Latvia

SEDA State Education and Development Agency Latvia

ASU ALEKSANDRO STULGINSKIO UNIVERSITETAS Lithuania

MEA Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation Netherlands

TNO Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research Netherlands

DLO Stichting Wageningen Research Netherlands

MBIE Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment New Zealand

RCN Research Council Norway Norway

Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation Poland

UEFISCDI

Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and

Innovation Funding Romania

AEI Spanish Research Agency (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities) Spain

CDTI Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology Spain

INFO MURCIA Instituto de Fomento de la Region de Murcia Spain

INIA National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology Spain

CTA Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía Spain

Formas

The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and

Spatial Planning Sweden

FOAG Federal Office for Agriculture - Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft Switzerland

GDAR

Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, General Directorate of Agricultural

Research and Policies Turkey

TÜBITAK

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Academic

Research Funding Program Directorate (TÜBİTAK ARDEB) Turkey

TÜBITAK

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Technology and

Innovation Funding Programmes Directorate (TÜBİTAK TEYDEB) Turkey

BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

United

Kingdom

DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

United

Kingdom

USDA/NIFA USA

Participant list

• Tour de table – Who are with us today?

• Eligibility conditions ERA-NET Cofund similar to ERA-NET under FP7.

1. Participation is limited to entities that can fully participate in joint calls and other actions between national and regional programmes.

2. Participants in ERA-NET Cofund actions must be research funders: legal entities owning or managing public research and innovation programmes.

• Programme Owners are typically national/regional ministries/authorities responsible for defining, financing or managing research programmes carried out at national or regional level.

Who can participate ?

• Programme Managers are typically research councils or funding agencies or other national or regional organisations that implement research programmes under the supervision of the programmeowners. Their participation has to be mandated by the national/regional authorities in charge (normally theresponsibleMinistry).

• Only in addition to the minimum conditions, and if justified by the nature of the action, programmes funded by other entities (international programmes, foundations or other non-public programmes) may participate.

Who can participate ?

COMMITMENT ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR SFS-31-2919 Public-Public PartnershipFor fields in [grey in square brackets]: enter the appropriate data

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2. Trends in digitising the agri-food sector / What should the ERA-NET be about?

Niels Gøtke

Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (DASHE)

10:20 – 10:30: What should the ERA-NET be about?

10:30 – 11:10: Trends in digitising the agri-food sectora. Current trends and the ICT-AGRI SRIAb. Introduction to discussion paper

11:10 – 11:20: Conclusion and summing up

Where do we come from?

We come from:

• An ERA-NET with 25 partners

• Cross-Thematic ERA-NET (ICT-Environment-Agriculture )

• Active since 2009

• 6 joint calls for proposals

• Implementing joint activities for dissemination and uptake of research results

• Mapping of national research priorities

• The MetaKnowledgeBase (MKB)

• Mapping of existing infrastructures

• Strategic research (and innovation) agendas. New SRIA coming soon

What is the new ERA-NET Cofund about?

Title: ICT-enabled agri food systems (SFS-31-2019)

• A long process in SCAR and the SC2 Programme Committee. Discussions started in 2016.

• The new ERA-NET topic has a Food System approach. Focus on the whole agri-food system including consumers

• Aim: To assist Europe´s food and business and farmers to adopt digital technologies. The ERA-NET must support the development of solutions to remove barriers to adapt new digital technologies

• The multi-actor known from H2020 should be used

• Relevant technologies may include: IoT / Internet of Things, AI / Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, remote and localised sensing

What is the new ERA-NET Cofund about?

• Interregional and international cooperration should be encouraged

• Synergies with Structural and Investment Funds / ESIF and ThematicSmart Specialisation Platforms on Agri-food are forseen

• Complementarity with other ERA-NETs and JPI´s (Susfood 2, SusAn, GAS, Core Organic, Blue Bioeconomy, FACCE-JPI….)

• Coopreration with the two other ERA-NETs in SFS-31 (Climate changeand food systems and Infectious animal diseases)?

What is the new ERA-NET Cofund about?

”ICT-AGRI-3” Cofund (SFS-31-2019)Frame: A. [2019] ICT-enabled agri-food systems

Today, despite increased information demand from consumers and food chain players alike, Europe's food businesses andfarmers are slow at adopting digital technologies. This is due in part to the inherent complexities of relevant products andprocesses, and in part to the dynamically changing open network organisation of the food sector with its multitude ofSMEs, its cultural diversity, its differences in expectations and in the ability to serve transparency needs. The agri-foodsector needs to take more advantage of the potential of digital technologies. Relevant technologies may include Internetof Things, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data technologies, remote and localised sensing. This sub-topic will engage the agri-food community in supporting the development of solutions to remove the barriers to adoption of digital technologies,taking a multi-actor approach across different supply chains (conventional and organic) from farm to fork. These solutionswill be targeted to supporting third party development of a variety of digital technologies which can take advantage of,integrate with, and complement the standardisation efforts and platform developments in other Horizon 2020, EuropeanStructural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and regionally/nationally-funded projects. In addition, this sub-topic will supportthe development of new data-driven ICT platforms and solutions which derive value for multiple actors from the datacollected throughout the food chain, thereby enabling new business models which will increase the affordability andadoption of such solutions, reduce the environmental footprint, increase system resilience, and empower consumers.Interregional and international cooperation will be encouraged and complementarity with other ERA-NETs will beensured throughout the project development stages by means of active collaboration and communication. Whenrelevant, projects should consider synergies with the Thematic Smart Specialisation Platform on Agri-food (TSSP-AF) andrelated interregional partnerships under the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3).http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/agri-food

”ICT-AGRI-3” CofundProposed timeline for the Cofunded call

Indicative timeline for the Co-funded call (dates given as example based on project start date: 1 August 2019)

Action Indicative Calendar

month

Project month

Joint call pre-announcement Jul 2019 -1

Publication of the joint call Sep 2019 1

Deadline submission of first stage

proposalsNov 2019 3

Invitation for submission of second

stage proposalsApr 2020 8

Deadline for second stage proposals and

national appication formsMay 2020 9

Evaluation procedure and

recommendation for fundingAug 2020 12

Funding decision by partners involved in

the joint callNov 2020 15

Start-up for selected projects Feb 2021 18

What should the ERA-NET be about? Trends in digitising the agri-food sector

ICT-AGRI Strategic Research Agenda in ICT and robotics for sustainable agriculture: Trends and Challenges

Astrid Willener

(FOAG)

What should the ERA-NET be about? Trends in digitising the agri-food sector

The Discussion paper

Johannes Pfeifer

(BLE)

Horizon 2020 - Work Programme 2018-2020

Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and

inland water research and the bioeconomyPart 9 - Page 52 of 139

SFS-31-2019: ERANETs in agri-foodSpecific Challenge: The agri-food sector is subject to multiple external pressures, such as rising demand for food, competition for land and other natural resources with other biomass uses, globalisation, threats from animal or plant diseases, environmental changes and public health considerations. This implies the need to become more efficient and sustainable; improve its impact on consumer health; take advantage of new technological developments; and become more transparent and responsive to consumer demands, within a food-system approach.Scope: Proposals should address one or more of the following sub-topics (A) to (C) and should clearly indicate to which one they refer.

A. [2019] ICT-enabled agri-food systemsToday, despite increased information demand from consumers and food chain players alike, Europe's food businesses and farmers are slow at adopting digital technologies. This is due in part to the inherent complexities of relevant products and processes, and in part to the dynamically changing open network organisation of the food sector with its multitude of SMEs, its cultural diversity, its differences in expectations and in the ability to serve transparency needs.

The agri-food sector needs to take more advantage of the potential of digital technologies. Relevant technologies may include Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data technologies, remote and localisedsensing. This sub-topic will engage the agri-food community in supporting the development of solutions to remove the barriers to adoption of digital technologies, taking a multi-actor approach across different supply chains (conventional and organic) from farm to fork. These solutions will be targeted to supporting third party development of a variety of digital technologies which can take advantage of, integrate with, and complement the standardisation efforts and platform developments in other Horizon 2020, European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and regionally/nationally-funded projects. In addition, this sub-topic will support the development of new data-driven ICT platforms and solutions which derive value for multiple actors from the data collected throughout the food chain, thereby enabling new business models which will increase the affordability and adoption of such solutions, reduce the environmental footprint, increase system resilience, and empower consumers. Interregional and international cooperation will be encouraged and complementarity with other ERA-NETs will be ensured throughout the project development stages by means of active collaboration and communication. When relevant, projects should consider synergies with the Thematic Smart Specialisation Platform on Agri-food (TSSP-AF) 74 and related interregional partnerships under the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation(RIS3).

Expected Impact:

• Improve coordination between national and EU funding and ensure better use of resources in the priority research areas above [A, B, C];

• Reduce the environmental footprint of the sector by reducing inputs and waste [A, B].

• Realise the potential of ICT and digital technologies to share data throughout the food value chain, thereby driving greater sustainability, offering new business models and helping to empower consumers to make smarter, more sustainable, healthier and more personal food and dietary choices, taking into account data regarding environmentalimpact, origin, nutrition, safety, integrity, etc., underpinned by the concept of transparency[A];

• Integrate effectively with major digital platforms from food actors, ICT solution providers and consumers [A];

Elke Saggau

(BLE)

Lessons learned – Cofund SusAn

3. The ERA-NET Cofund

Andrei Lintu

DG Research & Innovation, Unit B2 Open Science and ERA Policy

4. Financial issues & Legal requirements

Per Mogensen

Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (DASHE)

• ERA-NET COFUND has the central and compulsory element of implementing one substantial joint call with EC top-up funding (cofunded call). In addition to the 1 cofunded call the ERA-NET must also implement additional joint activities (other joint calls, events etc.) which are fixed in the grant agreement.

• Some third countries (high-income countries) can participate but their commitments are not considered for calculating the EC contribution. Structural funds (ESIF) are also not eligible for EC top-up funding.

• Implementation costs of the cofounded call are NOT eligible. It is up to the consortium to agree on how to cover the implementation costs of the Cofunded call.

Financial issuesGeneral aspects

• 1 cofunded call + additional joint activities (including other joint calls)

Financial issuesGeneral aspects

Financial issuesFrame

1. We have a target of €5.000.000 in total funding from the EC (top-up + Unit costs).

2. The EC top-up will be 33% of the national commitments for the cofounded call.

3. We can claim “Unit cost” to cover administration / coordination of Additional activities.

4. Which means:a. If the consortium contributes: €8.121.212,12 in national commitments.b. The EC will top-up with €4.000.000 (bringing the total call budget up to:

€12.121.212,12).c. This leaves €1.000.000 to be claimed as Unit costs for additional activities.d. In total the EC funding will amount to €5.000.000.

Financial issuesLeverage effects

• Leverage effects on public investments are an important narrative ofP2Ps, and one of the key performance indicators.

• We are expected to deliver a leverage of 5:1.

Financial issuesCommitments (Indicative)

Partner # Acronym Name Country/Region Total budget committed

(a) Initial national call

contribution [€]

(b) indicative possible

additional national call

contribution (optional) [€] EC call contribution

2 BMNT Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism Austria 200.000,00€ 190.071,02€ 9.928,98€ 93.617,07€

9 DAFA Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Danish AgriFish AgencyDenmark 1.000.000,00€ 950.355,12€ 49.644,88€ 468.085,36€

13 MMM Ministry of Agriculture and ForestryFinland 250.000,00€ 237.588,78€ 12.411,22€ 117.021,34€

15 ANR The French National Research AgencyFrance 1.000.000,00€ 950.355,12€ 49.644,88€ 468.085,36€

17 BMELV Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und VerbraucherschutzGermany 1.000.000,00€ 950.355,12€ 49.644,88€ 468.085,36€

18 BMBF Federal Ministry of Education and ResearchGermany 2.000.000,00€ 1.900.710,23€ 99.289,77€ 936.170,71€

20 GSRT General Secretariat for Research and TechnologyGreece 1.000.000,00€ 1.000.000,00€ -€

26 ISERD The Israel Innovation AuthorityIsrael 750.000,00€ 712.766,34€ 37.233,66€ 351.064,02€

42 CTA Corporación Tecnológica de AndalucíaSpain 500.000,00€ 475.177,56€ 24.822,44€ 234.042,68€

44 FOAG Federal Office for Agriculture - Bundesamt für LandwirtschaftSwitzerland 545.450,00€ 518.371,20€ 27.078,80€ 255.317,16€

46 TÜBITAK The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Academic Research Funding Program Directorate (TÜBİTAK ARDEB)Turkey 300.000,00€ 285.106,53€ 14.893,47€ 140.425,61€

47 TÜBITAK The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Technology and Innovation Funding Programmes Directorate (TÜBİTAK TEYDEB)Turkey 1.000.000,00€ 950.355,12€ 49.644,88€ 468.085,36€

Total 9.545.450,00€ 8.121.212,12€ 1.424.237,88€ 4.000.000,00€

Total leverage: 3,39

Additional funding needed to reach 5,00 leverage (€16.000.000): 6.454.550,00€

Financial issuesUse of EU top-up - common vs national pots

A large proportion of the EU funding will be used as top-up funding in the first joint call. This can be :

• Used in a common pot, aimed at filling possible funding gaps.

• Shared on a pro-rata basis topping-up the national pots.

• The consortium decides which proportion is likely to deliver the most convenient result (=max. number of funded proposals AND fixed return)

Financial issuesAll the technical stuff…

You can find information on the technicalities of Cofund financial issueshere:

ERA-LEARN: https://www.era-learn.eu/

Commission website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-funding-guide/cross-cutting-issues/era-net_en.htm#FundingPrinciples

Legal requirementsDocuments and signatures

Partners need to sign:

1. Grant Agreement

2. Consortium Agreement

3. Commitment of availability of funds

• The GA is a contract between the European Commission and beneficiaries. The coordinator signs in the name of the whole consortium & all partners sign ACCESSION FORM to GA.

• Non-EU partners (ex. NZ, US etc.) also need to sign the GA if they wish to participate in the activities and have some tasks allocated. However, the signature of GA may be complicated for these countries as they cannot accept the law under which conflicts are resolved (Brussels law).

• The rules of call implementation and evaluation are specified in the GA.

Legal requirementsGrant Agreement

• The consortium agreements should be signed before the grant agreement. They cover issues that will or may arise during the project.

• The template for an ERA-NET Cofund Consortium Agreement can be found on www.eralearn.eu. It is based on the DESCA Model but adapted according to the ERANET Cofund needs.

• The consortium agreements covers (*Among other things):Governance structure (structure, procedures, decision taking).Financial provisions (Payments, budgeting, insufficient financial contribution of

the EC, Cost of Certificates of the Financial Statement).Call implementation (selection process, use of EU-Top-Up funding for

transnational projects, ranking list, conflicts of interests, contractual obligations towards EC on selection, contractual obligations for projects funded in the joint call).

Legal requirementsConsortium Agreement

COMMITMENT ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR SFS-31-2919 Public-Public PartnershipFor fields in [grey in square brackets]: enter the appropriate data

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LunchWe start again at 13:00

5. Proposed Structure for the Cofund

Niels Gøtke

Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (DASHE)

a. Ambition for Additional Activitiesb. Coordination and Managementc. Work Package leaders

Additional activities (WP 6 & 7)Most common additional activities of ERA-NET Cofund actions

Additional activities (WP 6)Calls

Suggested topics:

Discussion points:

• Should we have additional calls?

• If so, how many?

• Who is interested in Managing/contributing to this WP?

Additional activities (WP 7)Other activities

Suggested activities:

Discussion points:

• Should we have other additionalactivities?

• If so, which?

• Who is interested in Managing/contributing to this WP?

StructureProposed Structure of the Cofund

Network Management Group (NMG)

Coordinator

Deputy / Subcoordinator(s)

Work Package Leaders

WP 1

• WP Leader• Task Leader

WP 2

• WP Leader• Task Leader

WP 3

• WP Leader• Task Leader

WP 4

• WP Leader• Task Leader

WP 5

• WP Leader• Task Leader

WP 6

• WP Leader• Task Leader

WP 7

• WP Leader• Task Leader

StakeholderForum

EU H2020Contact

Governing Board

Approach and MethodologyWork Packages

Work Package 1: Management

Management of the ERA-Net will be coordinated by WP1. This Work Package will work to enhance cooperation with on-going research initiatives and infrastructures.

Work Package 2: Preparing and launching the calls

This Work Package will finalise and make call texts available and administer the call through a user friendly online submission tool.

Work Package 3: Evaluation and Selection of Proposals

WP3 will oversee the evaluation and selection of proposals in the co-funded call. All procedures will be supported and endorsed by a Call Steering Committee (CSC), comprised of one representative from each funding agency.

Work Package 4: Monitoring of Projects

Monitoring and evaluation of the projects will be conducted in close collaboration with the national funders (Governing Board). Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) will be developed and published alongside the launch of the first call.

Approach and MethodologyWork Packages

Work Package 5: Communication and Impact

Communications activities will support the Cofund and the funded projects to realise tangible impacts on the Agri-food sector.

Work Package 6: Additional Calls

The scope and topic of additional calls will be developed in this Work Package, considering new developments in funding landscape and already funded projects.

Work Package 7: Additional Activities

The co-funded call will be supported by additional activities including, but not limited to, networking and brokerage events, capacity building, training aspects and shared use of infrastructures.

Approach and MethodologyCoordination and Work Package leadership (Cofunded call)

Work Package 1: Management

• Who will offer to be lead this WP?

• Deputy?

• Task leader?

Work Package 2: Preparing and launching the calls

• Who will offer to be lead this WP?

• Deputy?

• Task leader?

Work Package 3: Evaluation and Selection of Proposals

• Who will offer to be lead this WP?

• Deputy?

• Task leader?

Work Package 4: Monitoring of Projects

• Who will offer to be lead this WP?

• Deputy?

• Task leader?

Work Package 5: Communication and Impact

• Who will offer to lead the WP?

• Deputy?

• Task leader?

Approach and MethodologyCoordination and Work Package leadership

Work Package 6: Additional Calls

• Who will offer to lead the WP?

• Deputy?

• Task leader?

Work Package 7: Additional Activities

• Who will offer to lead the WP?

• Deputy?

• Task leader?

6. Call text Scope (preliminary discussions)

a. Call timeline

b. Call text

All partners

Call text Scope (preliminary discussions)Call timeline

Action Indicative Calendar

month

Project month

Joint call pre-announcement Jul 2019 -1

Publication of the joint call Sep 2019 1

Deadline submission of first stage

proposalsNov 2019 3

Invitation for submission of second

stage proposalsApr 2020 8

Deadline for second stage proposals and

national appication formsMay 2020 9

Evaluation procedure and

recommendation for fundingAug 2020 12

Funding decision by partners involved in

the joint callNov 2020 15

Start-up for selected projects Feb 2021 18

a. What should be included?

b. What should NOT be included?

Call text Scope (preliminary discussions)Call text

7. Timeline and next steps

Coordination team / All partners

Timeline and next stepsTimeline

12 October 2018: Summary from meeting.

01 November 2018: Application - First draft.

01 December 2018: Application - Second draft (incl. Budgets).

21 December 2018: Application - Third draft.

09 January 2019: Deadline for last comments to application.

23 January 2019: Deadline for submission!

Timeline and next stepsNext steps

• Writing teamWho will join?

• Meetings (physical / Skype / Webinar / Phone)?

• Partner contributions (Commitments & legal documents)

• Finding a suitable acronymSuggested: ICT-AGRI-Food

8. AOB

Thank you!

So now you are going to ask your boards and directors for funding!

GOODBYE,NIELS!