About EIP-AGRI
As the EIP-AGRI Network has become part of the EU CAP Network, this website will no longer be updated after 1 April 2023. It will remain available in a static form as a reference of all previous EIP-AGRI activities. All interactive features such as the login, the main search function of the website, and the advanced filtering of the databases (e.g. project database and collaborative areas) will no longer be available. You will find all the new and up-to-date information on the EU CAP Network website.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
The agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) works to foster competitive and sustainable farming and forestry that 'achieves more and better from less'. It contributes to ensuring a steady supply of food, feed and biomaterials, developing its work in harmony with the essential natural resources on which farming depends.
The EIP-AGRI is part of the EU’s growth strategy for this decade
The European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI) has been launched in 2012 to contribute to the European Union's strategy 'Europe 2020' for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. This strategy sets the strengthening of research and innovation as one of its five main objectives and supports a new interactive approach to innovation: European Innovation Partnerships.
The EIP-AGRI pools funding streams to boost interactive innovation
Having an idea is one thing, turning it into an innovation action is another. Different types of available funding sources can help get an agricultural innovation project started, such as the European Rural Development policy or the EU's research and innovation programme formerly Horizon 2020 and currently Horizon Europe. The EIP-AGRI contributes to integrating different funding streams so that they contribute together to a same goal and duplicate results.
Rural Development supports in particular Operational Groups and Innovation Support Services within a country or region. Horizon funds multi-actor projects and thematic networks involving partners from at least three EU countries. Other policies may offer additional opportunities.
The EIP-AGRI connects people to speed-up innovation
The EIP-AGRI brings together innovation actors (farmers, advisers, researchers, businesses, NGOs and others) in agriculture and forestry, at EU level.Together they form an EU-wide EIP network. EIP Within this network, Operational Groups, Multi-actor projects and Thematic Networks are all key building blocks. While Operational Groups are funded under the Rural Development Programmes, Multi-Actor projects and Thematic Networks are supported by the Horizon Programme. EIP-AGRI Operational Groups are project-based and tackle a certain (practical) problem or opportunity which may lead to an innovation. The Operational Group approach makes the best use of different types of knowledge (practical, scientific, technical, organisational, etc.) in an interactive way. An Operational Group is composed of those key actors that are in the best position to realise the project's goals, to share implementation experiences and to disseminate the outcomes broadly. Operational Groups are currently being set up in several EU countries and regions.
The permanent Subgroup on Innovation and knowledge exchange
The Rural Networks' Assembly, which was launched in January 2015, coordinated two networks - the EIP-AGRI Network and the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD). The Assembly included several subgroups, one of them being the permanent Subgroup on Innovation for agricultural productivity and sustainability. From October 2022, the Subgroup on Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (SoIKE) will start its activities in the new EU CAP Network.
The EIP-AGRI website: the one-stop-shop for agricultural innovation
The EIP-AGRI website has exciting and interactive features. All visitors can voice their research needs, discover funding opportunities for innovation projects and look for partners to connect with.
Through the website's interactive functions, users can share innovative project ideas and practices, information about research and innovation projects, including projects' results, by filling in the available easy-to-use e-forms. Various EIP-AGRI-related publications are available for download on the website, providing visitors with information on a wide range of interesting topics.
Future functionalities will be developed for Operational Groups and European funds managing authorities once the programmes start. Through this collaborative effort, the EIP-AGRI website will become a one-stop-shop for agricultural innovation in Europe.
EIP-AGRI Support Facility: a professional team to support the network
In April 2013, the European Commission established the EIP-AGRI Service Point to connect people and facilitate innovation and knowledge exchange in agriculture. From July 2021 onwards, the EIP-AGRI Service Point was followed up by the Support Facility 'Innovation & Knowledge exchange | EIP-AGRI' under the European CAP Network. The Support Facility offers a wide range of tools and services which can help you further your ideas and projects. It also facilitates networking activities; enhancing communication, knowledge sharing and exchange through conferences, Focus Groups, workshops, seminars and publications.
Discover what the EIP-AGRI Service Point can do for you.
Spread the word about EIP-AGRI with the multipliers toolkit
The success of the EIP also depends on members of the EIP-AGRI Network helping to expand it, enrich it and make it work. We have therefore prepared a toolkit which you can easily use to share information about the EIP-AGRI with your own network.
If you are participating in or hosting an event, or have good practices to share with the network, please let us know and we will add it to our rolling Agricultural Innovation Calendar and newsletter.
More about EIP-AGRI
Brochure: EIP-AGRI network
Brochure: EIP-AGRI Service Point
