Core Organic Plus call pre-announcement published

Core Organic will be ready to launch a joint call for research proposals in December 2013. The call budget is more than €11m including the European Union contribution of €3m for research and administration. The provisional call text and indicative budget per country are ready and are published in the pre-announcement together with the call schedule and the national contact points. The guideline for applicants with national rules and priorities, the new Core Organic website and the call submission site will be ready in December. The pre-announcement is available here . A brokerage event is arranged in Brussels on 18 December 2013 to give potential applicants a chance to meet and discuss ideas. TP Organics is organising the event for Core Organic. The agenda with registration form is available here.

The thematic research areas of the call are: crop - plant/soil interaction in organic crop production; functional biodiversity to improve management of diseases, weeds and pests; livestock health management system including breeding; and ensuring quality and safety of organic food along the processing chain. The Core Organic consortium hopes to receive applications from a wide representation within the science and innovation environments, including from environments which have not previously received funds from Core Organic.
 

The European transnational research cooperation project, the ERA-net named Core Organic II, consists of a network of 26 partners from 21 European countries. The main aim of Core Organic II is to agree on common research priorities and to select transnational research projects to be funded by the partners. More information is available here: http://www.coreorganic2.org/