CORE Organic Cofund is a collaboration between 27 partners in 19 countries/regions on initiating transnational research projects in the area of organic food and farming. CORE Organic Cofund has in total initiated twelve research projects based on funds from participating countries and funding from the European Commission.

CORE Organic is an ERA-NET - a network of European ministries and research councils funding research in organic food systems at national levels. The main focus of the ERA-NET is to join forces and fund transnational research projects support a focused and coordinated research and innovation effort covering the most important challenges along the organic value chains.

CORE Organic is the acronym for "Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems".

News from CORE Organic

2020.07.03 | Agriculture and food

12 Projects selected in the Joint CORE Organic/Susfood 2019 call

In order to address emerging societal challenges, CORE Organic has joined forces with SUSFOOD2 in the transnational Call ‘Towards sustainable and organic food systems’ launched in 2019. The network consists of 21 funding bodies from 18 countries/regions, committing around 9.5M EUR for transnational research.

2020.06.17 | Agriculture and food

Can organic greenhouse production be more resilient and less intensive?

A video from the project Greenresilient highlights three innovative techniques that are being tested at the Greenresilient experimental site in France by the Research Group for Organic Farming (GRAB) - watch it in the latest newsletter from EIP-AGRI

2020.05.12 | Agriculture and food

Organic Farm Knowledge promotes productivity and quality in European organic farming

Organic Farm Knowledge provides many tools and knowledge exchange for farmers, farm advisers and scientists. The platform covers a wide range of topics and is constantly expanding its thematic repertoire through new partnerships. Also the CORE Organic Cofund projects will publish their practice-oriented results on the platform.

2020.05.10 | Agriculture and food

How is the bird health at Swedish organic broiler farms?

A study of bird health and welfare in two slower-growing hybrids was performed in eight organic broiler chicken farms in Sweden in 2018. The bird health was in general good, but there are still needs for improvements.

2020.05.10 | Agriculture and food

Smart and intelligent drying systems for organic foods

In the last two years, non-invasive and smart monitoring solutions approach for producing premium quality dried foods were designed. Cloud-based solutions as well as soft sensors and the determination of critical control points were investigated in the context of the SusOrgPlus project.