New call for EU CAP Network Focus Group experts now open!
The topics to be covered by the three new Focus Groups are:
- Focus Group 53: Production of protein crops under climate change
- Focus Group 54: Local perennial plant genetic resources in view of climate change and biodiversity loss
- Focus Group 55: Alternative solutions for livestock product differentiation
If you have practical experience on any of these topics and would like to share this with 19 other experts to identify promising and inspiring ideas for innovation, please apply by 16 September 2024 23:59 hrs CET (Brussels time).
Joining an EU CAP Network Focus Group allows you to share your knowledge and to learn from peers. It may also help broaden your professional European network and form the start of a new cooperation.
For more details on the topics, and to apply, read the call text - you can find the link to the application form in the PDF call text.
For more information on Focus Groups and their tasks, please EU CAP Network Focus Group Charter.
Each group explores practical innovative solutions to problems or opportunities in the field and draws on experience derived from related useful projects. Each Focus Group meets twice and produces a recommendations and outcomes report.
The Focus Groups also discuss and document research results, best practices and identify the implications for further research activities that will help to solve practical problems in the sector.
Ongoing Focus Groups
Regenerative agriculture for soil health
How can regenerative agriculture practices help farmers to restore, protect and improve soil health and productivity?
Learn moreCrop associations including Milpa and protein crops
How to integrate crop associations into existing cropping systems and farm landscapes to increase farm resilience and efficient use of natural resources while reducing the dependency on external inputs?
Learn moreCompetitive and resilient mountain areas
Which innovative approaches and innovations linked to agriculture, forestry and bioeconomy can foster the competitiveness and the socio-economic and environmental resilience of mountain areas and their communities?
Learn moreExplore the work of previous Focus Groups
Enhancing the biodiversity on farmland through high-diversity landscape features
How can farmers create and maintain high-diversity landscape features (HDLF) that positively impact farmland biodiversity?
Learn moreSocial farming and innovations
How can social farming contribute to innovation in agriculture while strengthening the multi-functional role of agriculture and connecting people from urban and rural areas?
Learn moreRecovery of abandoned agricultural lands
How to foster new, practical ways for better management of abandoned agricultural land in a sustainable way?
Learn moreObjectives
In short, the objectives of a Focus Group are:
- Taking stock of the state of play of practice in the field of the Focus Group activity, listing problems and opportunities;
- Taking stock of the state of play of research in this field, summarising possible solutions to the problems listed;
- Identifying needs from practice and possible directions for further research;
- Highlighting priorities for innovative actions by suggesting potential practical Operational Groups or other project formats to test solutions and opportunities, including ways to disseminate the practical knowledge gathered.
For more information on Groups and their tasks, please see the Focus Group brochure and Focus Group Charter.
Previous EIP-AGRI Focus Groups
Under the EIP-AGRI, 46 Focus Groups were set up between 2013 and 2021. As of 2022, the ‘Support Facility for Innovation and Knowledge exchange including EIP-AGRI’ sets up Focus Groups under the EU CAP Network.
Video: EIP-AGRI Focus Groups, sharing knowledge to inspire innovation
The EIP-AGRI has run over 40 Focus Groups on a wide variety of topics. Watch this animated video to find out how Focus Groups work, how they inspire innovative actions in research and in practice, and how their results can be of value to you in your daily work.
