With this call, it is aimed to establish a premium training education with professionals active in the field of agronomical advise to farmers, cooperatives and companies able to support their transition from conventional to regenerative agriculture. This means equipping agronomic experts with knowledge, – helping them develop their understanding of agronomic challenges and learn new skills.
Objective of the Call
The purpose of this Call is to select an academic organization, or a group of organizations lead by an academic partner, who will provide a high-quality hands-on training programme to train agronomical advisors in regenerative agriculture state-of-the-art issues and knowledge.
Design and delivery of the programme
The selected organization will design and deliver the training according to its knowledge, expertise, context consideration. The contributors will be designing the trainings in close collaboration with the EIT Food regenerative agriculture team in line with EIT Food’s framework for quality assurance in teaching and learning, as well as EIT Food Programme Manager of Regenerative Agriculture.
Who can apply?
Funding for this Request for Implementing Participants is available to all organisation from Member States of the European Union (EU) and from Horizon Europe Associate Countries.
Funding
EIT Funding for 2024 course | 150.000 euros |
EIT Funding for 2025 | 75.000 euros |
EIT Funding for 2026 | No funding is considered necessary. |
Revenue sharing / profit agreement from 2026 | To be proposed by the applicant according to the expected revenue generation |
The deadline for the submission of full applications is 16th October 2023, at 17:00 CET.
In order to have more information regarding the expectations from the selected organizations, application preparation, submission and the proposal evaluation, please visit the call website.
You can access the "Request for Implementing Participants Guideline" document using the "Download the Document" button below.