The objective of FACCE SURPLUS was to strengthen the European Research Area in support of different integrated food and non-food biomass production and transformation systems, especially by organising, implementing and cofunding with the EU a joint call for transnational research projects on the topic of sustainable and resilient agriculture. As this topic falls within the scope of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE–JPI), this ERA-NET Cofund represents a substantial contribution to the delivery of the FACCE–JPI SRA. It also contributed to the overall EU objective of building the European Research Area through enhanced cooperation, coordination and alignment of national research programmes.

FACTS

• Duration: 2015 – 2020

• Website: www.faccesurplus.org

• Contact: Stefanie Margraf

• E-mail: s.margraf@fz juelich.de

• Budget: € 15 151 515

• Partners: The consortium consisted out of 23 partner organisations, programme owners and/or programme managers, from 15 countries

Calls

1. Co-fund call on sustainable and resilient agriculture for food and non-food systems

2. 2nd transnational joint call on small scale Biorefineries

3. 3rd transnational joint call onhow to utilise all the biomass from agricultural land, uncultivated land and forestry with a holistic view with regard to food and non-food systems