| Coordination
of Agricultural Research in the Mediterranean - ARIMNet2
Support:
FP7-ERANET-2013-RTD (Coordination and Support Action)
Period:
01/2014-12/2017
Financial value:
IAC budget is 27.000 EUR, total value is 1.998.724 EUR
Coordinator:
Institut national de la recherche agronomique, France
Abstract:
Agricultural research
in the Mediterranean is characterised by three main features: it is scattered
within the EU members and in Mediterranean Partner Countries as well as most
of the problems and challenges that the Mediterranean agriculture is facing
are shared by all the countries in the area and even further, its objectives
are largely the same in the whole area, even if priorities can vary from one
country to another; the conditions resulting from climate change as well as
the objective of sustainable development and production need to rethink agricultural
research in all the countries and to begin its alignment in the whole area to
increase its impact. This situation allows and requires coordination at the
level of the Mediterranean to fight again fragmentation in fostering the convergence
of national programmes and in founding a new critical mass to address the key
issues (such as the growing demand for safer, healthier and higher quality food;
the sustainable production and use of renewable bio-resources; threats to the
sustainability and security of agricultural and fisheries production resulting
in particular from climate change), to increase excellence and relevance of
research, to enhance and strengthen the cooperation within the region in sharing
the objectives and the priorities. The ERA-Net ARIMNet has been working with
this objective of enhancing scientific cooperation between EU members and Mediterranean
Partner Countries (MPC) and will finish in March 2013. The action needs to be
continued, deepened and enlarged. This is the aim of the proposal of an ERA-Net
for Coordination of Agricultural Research in the Mediterranean (ARIMNet2), which
gathers sixteen countries (8 EU members, 4 associated countries and 4 other
Mediterranean countries). It bears clearly a double ambition: to enhance coordination
of agricultural research programmes within the Mediterranean area and to improve
the cooperation within the area.
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