The agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) works to foster competitive and sustainable farming and forestry that 'achieves more and better from less'. It contributes to ensuring a steady supply of food, feed and biomaterials, developing its work in harmony with the essential natural resources on which farming depends.
Innovation under the EIP-AGRI may be technological, non-technological, organisational or social, and based on new or traditional practices. The work of the EIP-AGRI goes beyond speeding up the transfer from laboratory to practice. The EIP-AGRI builds bridges between research and practice and it focuses on forming partnerships - using bottom-up approaches and linking farmers, advisors, researchers, businesses, and other actors in Operational Groups.
These groups work on practical projects that can receive funding by most notably the EU Rural Development Policy, the Union Research and Innovation Framework "Horizon 2020” or from national and private funds as well as other European Structural and Investments Funds.
In order to boost the flow of information and foster the exchange of knowledge and experience across projects, sectors and borders, adedicated EIP Network has been launched with numerous actions and initiatives such as focus groups, seminars, extensive project databases, study trips and partner search. To know more about these activities, go to the EIP-AGRI Service Point page.
EIP AGRI Service Point p/a VLM - Gulden Vlieslaan 72 Brussel 1060 Belgium
