The Department of
Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is inviting applications for funding in a
competitive call for proposals under the European Innovation Partnerships (EIP)
Initiative. The theme for this call for EIP proposals is farm health, safety
and wellbeing.
EIPs involve the establishment of such Operational Groups to
develop ideas, or take existing ideas/research and put them into practice. The
ultimate aim of these innovation partnerships is to road-test new ideas and
practices which can then be used more widely by farmers and others.
The Department is thus seeking to receive
proposals for innovative approaches which address the farm health, safety and
wellbeing challenges on Irish farms. This is linked to Priority 3(b) as set out
in EU Regulation 1305/2013 and in Ireland’s Rural Development Programme (RDP),
2014-2020.
A total of €1m is available for successful
proposals under this call. As set out below, this funding is available to fund
the development of detailed project plans at Stage 2 of the application
process, as well as to support the full implementation and roll out of those
projects which are successful in being chosen for full implementation.
Operational Groups
- The Operational Group is the
collection of people who are in the best position to help realise the
project goals. All EIPs must be delivered by an Operational Group, and
there must be more than one member of the Operational Group.
- The application should set out
clearly all the actors who will be members of the Operational Group. It
must also set out what the role and contribution of each Operational Group
member will be in relation to achieving the goals of the project including
which member(s) will be lead partner.
- At Stage 1 of the process, we
are seeking an outline of the members for the Operational Group. Proposals
which successfully move to Stage 2 of the selection will be required at
that stage to finalise the membership and roles of all actors in the
Operational Group.
- Operational Groups are expected
to be hands on in terms of working towards the implementation of their
proposal. Operational Groups shall be set up by interested actors such as
farmers, researchers, advisors, NGOs, foresters and businesses involved in
the agriculture and food sector etc. who are relevant for achieving the
objectives of the farm health, safety and wellbeing EIP.
- An Operational Group can also
bring together any advisors/multipliers who have the expertise and
knowledge needed by the project at various times, or who can
disseminate/promote aspects of the project, but who do not need to be a
permanent part of the Operational Group.
- Successfully selected
Operational Groups must establish internal procedures that ensure that
their operation and decision making is transparent and that situations of
conflict of interest are avoided.
- Please note, only Operational
Groups based in Ireland will be eligible for this funding.
Post Date - 14-Dec-2020