The six projects of the 3rd FACCE SURPLUS Call and the eight projects of the 2nd SusCrop Call will have a joint status seminar meeting on February 7-8, 2023 in Ghent and Merelbeke, Belgium. The projects’ status seminar is followed by an outreach seminar on ‘Sustainable crop and agricultural production (including circularity) for the future’

Read the article from the 3rd call DEMETER project.

Almost seven years have passed since the start of the ERA-NET Cofund FACCE SURPLUS. In this time, the Network has launched three trans-national calls, with the projects of the 2nd call reaching their end-term and projects of the 3rd call being at their mid-term at the end of 2021. A status seminar was considered a good opportunity to recognise the research projects’ outcomes and achievements so far. Read the report from the seminar in September here.

Exploring new possibilities, this is the scope of the DEMETER project, an ERA-NET research project of the FACCE SURPLUS Cofund to valorise second-class vegetables and by-products of the vegetable processing industry.

FACCE-JPI celebrates its ten-year anniversary with a high-level science-policy discussion on 26 & 27 November 2020.

Biorefining of grass and clover grass allows for a sustainable production of plant protein, which can replace imported soy products. At an online seminar on 3 December, Aarhus University presents research aimed at companies that want to work with green biorefining.

Green biorefining can contribute to both rural growth, a more sustainable agriculture and European self-sufficiency with plant protein. The perspective for the common agricultural policy is in focus at a webinar held in collaboration with the European Parliament.

The FACCE SURPLUS 1st call project PREAR (Predicting and enhancing the Resilience of European Agro-ecosystems to environmental change using crop Rotations) presents their Future Rotations Explorer – a tool designed to support co-creation of rotations that will be suitable in future climates.

The eight projects selected in the FACCE SURPLUS 2nd call – with small-scale bio-refineries as the central theme - relate well to the objectives concerning scientific impact of the call - and they run according to plan. These are the main conclusion of the mid-term report.