Irish Agri-Food Deep Demonstration 2022/2023

EIT Climate KIC is partnering with Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (DAFM) to support national climate action in the agri-food sector.

Building on EIT Climate-KIC’s Deep Demonstration approach, the two-year programme will co-develop and deploy a coordinated portfolio of innovation actions and projects across the entire land-agri-food system, which will allow Irish stakeholders to test different options and build learning and intelligence about effective pathways for the agri-food sector to thrive while delivering its climate targets.

The project will run from 2022-2023 and the initial phases include activities to learn from and build Irish agri-food system stakeholder knowledge on:

• nature-based solutions
• carbon farming (and soil carbon)
• dairy, meat, and other agri-food sector processors
• environment climate measures
• funding and finance
• visualization/graphic design

CALL TO ACTION 

The purpose of the call is to build a community of partners able to contribute to building on (and learning from) Irish stakeholder knowledge on one or more of the above topics. The total funds available under this call is €150.000. Applicants who meet the criteria will be shortlisted. This does not mean they will automatically be selected for specific pieces of work, nor will be they automatically eligible for funding under this call. Shortlisted applicants will be retained on an open list of EIT Climate-KIC Community of partners available for specific pieces of work between August 2022 and December 2023. This is the scoping and initial deployment phase of work, with the expectation of further opportunities in future in Ireland and elsewhere.