Projects

GRACE
[oct 2025 - sept 2029] Growing Climate Resilience in Remote rural Areas through Community Empowerment Objectives: GRACE project focuses on addressing the needs of rural and small and medium communities localised in EU Remote Rural Areas (RRAs) to adapt and build resilience against Climate Change, by strengthening their capacities and empowering them to become actors…
GREENCOOP
[2025 - 2029] Green Transition Cooperation for the Integration of Rural Innovation-based Business and Production models Objectives: GREENCOOP’s overall objective is to develop a set of 15 (EU) and 3 (China) LL communities to co-create mixed and digital innovations (ADIs) as 12 demos to promote social economy, enhancing farmers prosperity and rural entrepreneurs by optimizing…
ARADINA
[2024 - 2026] Let us cultivate the future with traceable, sustainable, supportive and inclusive agriculture. Context: Project to support the agroecological transition in Lebanon through the promotion of agroecology and the facilitation of access to national and international markets. Lebanon has been facing a severe crisis since the end of 2019, on economic (with growing…
BUTTERFLY
[2025 - 2029] Mainstreaming pollinator stewardship in view of cascading ecological, societal and economic impacts of pollinator decline BUTTERFLY aims to significantly enhance society’s capacity to appraise, foresee, and respond to the threats posed by cascading impacts of pollinator decline. To reach that goal it will establish a test system of geographically well spread multi-actor…
INSIST-VAT
[2025 - 2027] Institutional, Sustainable and Innovative Strengthening of Vocational Agricultural Training in Albania INSIST-VAT is a project coordinated by the CIHEAM-IAMM, co-funded by the European Union within the scope of the Erasmus+ programme "Capacity Building in the field of vocational education and training" (CB-VET). Objectives The national strategy of the Albanian Ministry of Agriculture…
DIONYSUS
[2024 - 2027] Operational adaptation of WEFE (Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystems) Nexus-based systems solutions in Mediterranean DIONYSUS is a PRIMA-funded project (2024-2026) on the Nexus approach in the Mediterranean Region, coordinated by CIHEAM-IAMM in Montpellier. In common culture, Dionysus is often associated with being the god of wine. However, in Greek mythology, Dionysus symbolized…
ClimBeR
[2022 - 2024] Enhanced Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus (WEFE) Decisions in Dry Land Agri-food Production The project seeks to promote innovations that improve irrigation water efficiency, reduce fossil fuel consumption, improve food and animal production, and preserve natural resources. This objective will be addressed in a changing, uncertain, climatic, and socio-economic context. The main hypothesis that will…
NPP-SOL
[2023 - 2026] MODELLING AND TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS TO PREVENT SURFACE AND GROUND-WATER BODIES FROM AGRICULTURAL NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION UNDER MEDITERRANEAN CONDITIONS The general objective of NPS-SOL is to prevent diffuse pollution of water resources due to non-point agricultural pollutants under the Mediterranean soil and environmental conditions, according to the objectives of the new Green Deal…
NATAE
[2022 - 2026] Fostering Agro-Ecological Transition in North Africa Through Multi-Actor Design, Evaluation and Networking NATAE (Fostering agroecology transition in North Africa through multi-actor, evaluation, and networking) is a recently awarded project under the Horizon Europe program. Based on a multi-actor and interdisciplinary approach, this four-year project will generate new perspectives to evaluate agroecology-inspired practices…
Data4Food2030
[2022 - 2026] Fostering agroecology transition in North Africa through multi-actor, evaluation, and networking Discovering the value of data economy in European food systems The main objective of the Data4Food2030 project is to improve the data economy for food systems by clarifying what it entails, mapping its development, performance and impact to create new insights…
EXCEL4MED
[2023 - 2027] Excellence hub in green technologies: Introducing innovation ecosystems in the Mediterranean food value chain. The overarching objective of EXCEL4MED is to create an Excellence Hub in Mediterranean fruit supply chains. The project aims at identifying high-impact strategies and establish lines of resilience for producers, processors, consumers and policymakers. This will be achieved…
ALLIANCE
[2022 - 2025] ALLIANCE: A hoListic framework in the quality Labelled food supply chain systems' management towards enhanced data Integrity and verAcity, interoperability, traNsparenCy, and tracEability The ALLIANCE project is a framework created to ensure data veracity and transparency in EU quality-labelled food chains. It proposes systemic solutions that go beyond current practices in order…

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