Federal Office for Agriculture - Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft

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 Switzerland

Funding: €545,000

Conditions full:

Terms and conditions

  • Funding for Swiss partners in an ERA-Net ICT-AGRI-FOOD consortia is granted according to national regulations.
  • The application must be in accordance with the Swiss legal regulations for animal research and research with genetically modified organisms.
  • An electronic copy of the pre-proposal and of the full proposal must be sent to the National Contact Point no later than the closing date for pre-proposals and full proposals respectively.

Eligibility

  • Eligible are persons working for public and private research institutions as well as small and medium enterprises (SME), if they are legally established in Switzerland.
  • This is also applicable for subcontrators (subcontractors need to be clearly defined in the proposal).
  • Subjects should not be redundant (e.g. with other subjects already funded on Swiss territories).

Funding

  • The overall funding amount given by FOAG for Swiss partners is EUR 545 450 (approx. CHF 600 000).
  • The requested amount for each Swiss applicant shall not exceed EUR 162 000 (approx. CHF 180 000).
  • According to Article 20.6 of the Annotated Model grant Agreement (http://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/news/horizon-2020-updated-annotated-model-grant-agreement-available ), the budget applied for must be stated in Euro and the conversion rules as stated in article 20.6 of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement should be applied.  
  • Funding from FOAG is limited to 75% of the total reported costs of the Swiss partner.
  • The remaining costs must be covered by own resources of the applicant or any other third party.
  • Budget for salary for permanent, full-time positions in public institutes (such as Agroscope and Universities) is not allowed (but can be considered as own contribution, i.e. being part of the 25% of total costs not covered by FOAG).
  • Funding does not cover expeditures for activities carried out before the project has been granted, e.g. for the preparation of the pre-proposal or full proposal.
  • Additional funding will not be provided after project completion.
  • The formalities of each contribution will be regulated in a contract between the FOAG and the corresponding research partner.
  • First payments will be available from spring 2021.

National/regional topic priorities:

FOAG funds research projects within all topics of the call  

 

More details in the national/regional call announcement:

National regulations are stated in the “Verordnung über die landwirtschaftliche Forschung (VLF) vom 23. Mai 2012“ (https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/20120280/index.html).

Applicants are strongly advised to contact FOAG before preparing applications for this call.

Contact person(s):
Nora Sauter
Astrid Willener