1. Chair, FACCE-JPI Governing Board
12th February 2013
Cooperation between the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) and Selected Third Countries
Niels Gotke
Chair, FACCE-JPI Governing Board

2. FACCE-JPI Vision and Mission
Vision: An integrated European Research Area that addresses the challenges of Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change to achieve sustainable growth in agricultural production, meet increasing food demand and develop a European bio-based economy, while maintaining and restoring ecosystem services under climate change
Mission: To promote the integration and alignment of national research resources in Europe under a common research strategy, to address the diverse challenges in agriculture, food security and climate change
The FACCE-JPI Thematic Scope lies at the nexus of agriculture, food security and climate change

3. 22 Participating Countries
17 EU Member States + 4 Associated Countries+ 1 Third Country
Italy
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Romania
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey UK
Cyprus
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
New Zealand

4. FACCE-JPI’s Strategic Research Agenda:
5 Core Themes

5. Overview of FACCE-JPI activities (1)
9 ongoing joint actions+ 1 under development
53 collaborative research projects
Core Theme 1. Food security under climate change
Core Theme 2. Sustainable intensification of agriculture
Core Theme 3. Biodiversity & ecosystem services
Core Theme 4. Adaptation to climate change
Core Theme 5. GHG mitigation in agriculture
Knowledge Hub on modelling the impacts climate change on food security (MACSUR) - partnerhsip with AgMip (€15M, 300 researchers)
Knowledge Network on sustainable intensification
Joint call with the BiodivERsA ERA-NET (€10.2M)
FACCE ERA-NET + on Climate Smart Agriculture (€19M*)
Multipartner
call on agricultural GHG mitigation with 3 GRA countries (USA, Canada, New Zealand)(€5.5M)
FACCE ERA-NET Cofund on Sustainable agriculture for food and non-food systems (SURPLUS) with New Zealand (€15M)
ERANET Cofund with Water JPI on sustainable water management in agriculture (WATERWORKS 2015) with Canada, Egypt, Taiwan, S. Africa, Tunisia (now AC) (€26M*)
+ Exploratory workshops (on food and nutrition security, ICT, biorefinery, etc.)
International call (Collaborative Research Action)
on food security and land use change with the Belmont Forum (Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, S. Africa, USA) (€5.3M)
FACCE ERA-NET Cofund
on monitoring and mitigation of agricultural GHG (ERA-GAS) with New Zealand (€14M*)
Thematic Annual Programming Network on organic matter sequestration in ag. soils
* Committed budgets 5

6. Modalities for cooperation with third countries
Participation in a FACCE-JPI joint research action (e.g., call for research; ERA-NET, researchers’ network) requires:
A mutual interest in a given theme/ topic
Commitment on the part of the third country
Available national funding (in-cash and/or in-kind) to participate
2. Adhesion to the JPI via « Associate Membership » requires:
Strong commitment to the FACCE-JPI Vision and Mission (formal request to join the Governing Board)
A history of successful cooperation
Interest and means of getting involved in more than one joint action

7. Areas for cooperation at joint action level
All joint research actions are potentially open to third countries
Likely thematic priorities of FACCE-JPI in :
Soil-food security-climate change (with GRA, 4/1000 initiative?)
Food and nutrition security (with JPI HDHL and JPI Oceans)
Digital agriculture, incl. precision agriculture (with ICT Agri ERA-NET, the International Bio-economy Forum?)
Cross-cutting priority: Consolidation, dissemination and valorisation of FACCE-JPI scientific results, including at policy level
Implementation Plan for to be elaborated in (based on the updated Strategic Research Agenda)

8. For FACCE-JPI Member-Countries
Expected benefits
For Third Countries
Entry point into the EU research and innovation landscape
FACCE-JPI is the leading European initiative on agriculture-food security- climate change
Ability to reach out to 22 countries
Flexible mechanism with variable geometry/ voluntary participation
Access to FACCE-JPI’s European and international partners
For FACCE-JPI Member-Countries
Greater impact and visibility internationally
Increased research structuring and cost-efficiency to address complex societal challenges
Strengthened science diplomacy
EU “Open to the World”  priority
Access to new research data and methods
Possible challenge: Inter-operability between research funding rules; different timing

9. Thank you for you attention!
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