Project Summary
GENERAL INFORMATION
LEAP4FNSSA is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) that aims at establishing a Europe-Africa International Research Consortium (IRC). The IRC will provide a tool for all European and African institutions ready to engage in a sustainable partnership platform for research and innovation on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA)
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
- Establish a sustainable structure, or ‘Platform’, for the efficient and coherent implementation of the African-European Research and Innovation Partnership
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Increase the synergies and coherence between actors, research and innovation projects, initiatives and programmes, through the development of institutional alliances and clusters of projects;
- Develop a learning environment and a large knowledge base, including monitoring and evaluation activities, creating communication and links between different initiatives to improve STI cooperation;
- Establish a long-term and sustainable governance and funding mechanism for the Platform
MAIN ACTIVITIES
- Support the Bureau of the AU-EU HLPD in implementing the FNSSA Roadmap;
- Create strategic alliances of actors committed to aligning their R&I activities to the FNSSA Roadmap, improving the coherence between the various projects, programmes, and policies, and setting up sustainable joint funding mechanisms;
- Strengthen the knowledge base to increase the efficiency of the AU-EU Research and Innovation Partnership on FNSSA, by developing new instruments for data analysis, supporting existing knowledge networks, and enhancing capacities for data management and communication;
- Facilitate within the relevant FNSSA research and innovation networks, the dissemination of information already existing or generated by the CSA project and the partners
Source of funding : Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program – H2020-SFS-2018-1 (Grant Agreement no. 817663) - European Union
Total budget : 5 135 106,00 €
Partners :
- Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU) - Austria
- Fonds National de la Recherche et de l'Innovation pour le Developpement (FONRID) - Burkina Faso
- Ceska Zemedelska Univerzita V Praze (CULS) - Repubblica Ceca
- Kobenhavns Universitet (UCPH) - Danimarca
- Kobenhavns Universitet (UCPH) - Danimarca
- Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MHESR) - Yemen
- African Union – Union Africaine - The African Observatory for Science Technology and Innovation (AOSTI) - Guinea Equatoriale
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) - Francia
- Universitaet Hohenheim (UHOH) - Germania
- Agricultural Research Council (ARC) - Sudafrica
- Department of Science and Technology (DST) - Sudafrica
- National Research Foundation (NRF) - Sudafrica
- Stichting Wageningen Research (WR) - Paesi Bassi
