Research call fom Core Organic II

Download  Announcement of call and
Guideline for applicants

Call topics:

• Cropping: Designing robust and productive cropping systems at field, farm and landscape level

• Monogastric: Robust and competitive production systems for pigs, poultry and fish
• Quality: Ensuring quality and safety of organic food along the whole chain

Pre-proposals will be checked against the following criteria: relevance compared with topics of the call (which are the common policy needs and priorities of the countries of the funding agencies participating in the call), quality of Research Consortia, added value by transnational collaboration, and feasibility of the project.

Moreover, a first evaluation of innovativeness of the approach and the scientific quality compared with budget will also be made, but full scientific assessment will be based on full applications for the short-listed proposals.

Project Consortia whose Pre-Proposals meet the criteria and are assessed to be of high quality will be invited to submit a Full Proposals

Formas is the Swedish funding body. Formas refers to Framework Programme for Research on Organic Agriculture – production and consumtion 2010-2012 compilated and printed by CUL (Centre for Sustainable Agriculture). This research programme is being translated to english at this moment. It will be available at this webpage as soon as it is done. Download the document i Swedish here:
Ramprogram för forskning inom ekologisk produktion och konsumtion 2010–2012