Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Funding details

Call : Call for transnational, collaborative, inter-/transdisciplinary research projects on ICT-enabled agri-food systems

Country specific: Funding is restricted to organisations from Germany

Funding: €2000,000

Conditions full:

Eligibility criteria:

Applicants must be research groups from academia, universities, research organisations or industry. Enterprises, especially SMEs, may participate as partners provided they can prove their financial stability (see “additional information”).

 

National/regional topic priorities:

BMBF will support projects within Topic 1.

Proposals with the following focus cannot be funded: Topic 2

 

More details in the national/regional call announcement:

Additional information

German applicants are strongly recommended to contact their National Contact Persons before submitting a proposal and to refer to the National Announcements, which can requested from the National Contact Persons.

German applicants who are eligible to receive “Projektpauschale” must make sure, that this is drawn in the section “Finances” under “Overhead”. Additional explanations can be added in the section “Comments on finances”.

  • BMBF funding of the ICT-AGRI-FOOD co-funded call is provided as delineated in the announcement “Richtlinie zur Förderung transnationaler Forschungsprojekte zur Anwendung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik in der Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittelproduktion” which is published in the Bundesanzeiger in December 2019.
  • BMBF funding of the ICT-AGRI-FOOD co-funded call is provided as delineated in the announcement “Richtlinie zur Förderung transnationaler Forschungsprojekte zur Anwendung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik in der Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittelproduktion” which is planned to be published in the Bundesanzeiger in December 2019.
  • Funding bases on §§23 and 44 BHO (“Bundeshaushaltsordnung”) and associated administrative regulations. The main items are as follows:
  • The procedure (“Verfahren”) is according to the above-mentioned protocol (see Chapter “Application Procedure”). Funding will be awarded as non-repayable project grant.

The funding regulations, the follow up and reporting of publicly funded projects are regulated according to the national announcement “Richtlinie zur Förderung transnationaler Forschungsprojekte zur Anwendung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik in der Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittelproduktion”. Additionally, reporting duties as delineated in this Call Announcement in the Chapter „Reporting requirements“ must be respected as well.

For universities intending to request the “Projektpauschale” in the frame of the present call, the project costs budgeted in the pre-proposal must include this “Projektpauschale”. More information is available in the “FAQ zur Projektpauschale”: https://foerderportal.bund.de

Research institutions, which receive basic financing, can be funded subject to specific conditions.

Enterprises must be registered in Germany and must be well established in Germany with plants, laboratories, employees, etc. The proposed project must be beneficial to the national economy. In order to prove their financial ability to participate in the proposed project, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have to submit the following documents together with the electronic submission of the Pre-proposal:

  • Financial statement for the last two years (Jahresabschlüsse der letzten zwei Jahre)
  • Confirmation of the financial own contribution (Erklärung zur Aufbringung des Eigenanteils)
  • Business assessment (Aktuelle BWA)
  • The documents have to be submitted to:

 

Dr. Ulrike Ziegler

Projektträger Jülich

Geschäftsbereich Bioökonomie

PtJ BIO 7: Europäische Initiativen und Internationales

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

D-52425 Jülich

Tel.: +49 2461 61-4784

Fax: +49 2461 61-1790

u.ziegler@fz-juelich.de

In the case of a positive funding recommendation all German applicants will be asked to submit a formal national application. It is strongly recommended to use the electronic application system “easy-online” https://foerderportal.bund.de/easyonline.

 

More details in the national/regional call announcement:

See the national Call announcement in the Bundesanzeiger (www.bundesanzeiger.de)

Contact person(s):
Ulrike Pogoda de la Vega