• H2020
• Excellent Science
• European Research Council

Citizens and organisations are invited to the H2020 consultation on societal challenge 2: ‘Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy’.

Contributions are particularly sought from civil society organisations, businesses, research institutions, policy makers, higher education institutions, science museums, science shops, scientific centres of excellence, local public authorities, cities of scientific culture, innovators and entrepreneurs.

The objective of Horizon 2020’s societal challenge 2 is: ‘to secure sufficient supplies of safe, healthy and high quality food and other biobased products, by developing productive, sustainable and resource-efficient primary production systems, fostering related ecosystem services and the recovery of biological diversity, alongside competitive and low carbon supply, processing and marketing chains. This will accelerate the transition to a sustainable European bioeconomy, bridging the gap between new technologies and their implementation.’

The online consultation is open to the public and aims to collect information, as well as opinion, on the strategy, scope, objectives, and expected impacts of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020 with regards to the specific societal challenge.

The European Commission expects to develop the content of the work programme during the fourth quarter of 2016 and first semester 2017, with adoption and publication of calls for proposals in the autumn of 2017.

For more information on how to contribute to the consultation, click here.