Why does research and innovation on human capital and innovation systems matter?
The need to speed-up innovation has been repeatedly emphasised in recent years and is now a core element of the European Commission’s communication on the future of food and farming.
Agricultural activity has never taken place in a static context. Yet, in the last decades, this context has become more complex with more stringent environmental requirements, more open economic conditions and associated opportunities and risks.
Beyond the primary sector, innovation in rural areas can play an important role in stimulating green and socially inclusive economic growth, mitigating geographic isolation and avoiding economic and social marginalisation.
Successful rural innovation requires human and social capital, including skills that enable actors to perform or initiate activities and links, incentives, shared values and norms that underpin the capacity of actors to trust each other and cooperate.
Funding opportunities
Horizon Europe
Calls for proposals and funding information related to agriculture, forestry and rural areas
European agricultural fund for rural development
The rural development policy supports innovation through a range of interventions, including the European innovation partnership for agriculture (EIP-AGRI)
LIFE Programme
Some human capital and innovation boost related calls may be found in this programme
Projects and results
Enhancing human capital and boosting innovation systems
This factsheet collects most of the research and innovation related to Enhancing human capital and boosting innovation systems under Horizon 2020 societal challenge 2
EIP-AGRI agricultural innovation project database
The one-stop shop to EU-funded agricultural innovation projects
Research project database (CORDIS)
The Commission's primary portal for results of EU-funded research projects
Project success stories
Stories of particularly successful EU-funded research projects
Collaboration and jobs
EIP-AGRI activities on human capital and innovation systems
The EIP-AGRI fosters innovation in agriculture and forestry connecting knowledge and practice
Find project partners
Search and view profiles of all organisations that have received funding via the funding and tenders portal
Jobs (EURAXESS)
Researcher jobs in related fields
Scientific publications, tools and databases
Scientific publications
Scientific publications produced by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Scientific research tools and databases
The Commission's Joint Research Centre compiles databases and develops software and modelling tools
EU Open Data Portal
Single point of access to open data produced by the EU institutions. All data is free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes
OpenAIRE
You can access all scientific publications from Horizon 2020 via OpenAIRE
Copernicus
Access to agriculture data from the Copernicus programme