6th April 2018 - Rome, Italy - JOINT WORKSHOP INVITATION TO REGISTER
The SCAR Strategic Working Groups ARCH, AKIS and Food Systems hereby invite you to participate in the Joint Workshop to be held in Rome, on Friday 6th April 2018 from 09:00 to 13:00.
The workshop will consist of Key Note Speakers showing how to ex ante programme research and innovation for improved impact, at the international, national and regional scales. This will be followed by Panel Discussions with experts drawn from the EC, IFAD, FAO, OECD, CREA and open discussions with participants.
The aim of the workshop is to provide, to funders and researchers, concrete recommendations on how to strengthen programming of research and...
The presentations of the SCAR National meeting in Bulgaria, taken place in February 28 are now available...
The Agricultural University of Athens (Laboratory of Agricultural Extension, Agricultural Systems & Rural Sociology) in collaboration with the National Rural Network of the Rural Development Program 2014-2020 hosted the 8th meeting of the Strategic Working Group on Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR SWG AKIS4) from Feb 28th to March 1st.
After a warm welcome of Prof Epam. Paplomatas, Vice-Rector, and Prof. Ch...
MAIN CONCLUSIONS (Brussels, 15 March 2017)
1) Information on the "Food from the Ocean" project
The on-going work aims at providing by the end of 2017 a scientific opinion to Commissioner Vella on the question: How to sustainably extract more food from the ocean?
2) Updates on SCAR-Fish Work Plan for 2017
Climate Change:
Objectives: To identify research needs related to developing management options for climate impacted fisheries and aquaculture sectors
It was agreed to adjust the...
MAIN CONCLUSIONS (Brussels, 31 March 2017)
The Commission informed about the planned adoption on the same day of an opinion from the Committee of Regions related to “The local and regional dimension of the bioeconomy and the role of cities and regions”.
SCAR is invited to contribute to the consultation on the importance of R&I in the CAP.
The Commission informed about the latest developments of the International Bioeconomy Forum (IBF). The Plenary will take place before the end of...
STRATEGIC WORKING GROUP ON FORESTS AND FORESTRY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
Since December 2016, SWG FOREST has a renewed mandate until June 2019 with the ambition to strengthen coordination of research and innovation to meet the challenges of forests adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and of increasing sustainability and competitiveness of the EU's forest-based sector, by sustainably providing biomass and products for a growing circular bioeconomy, and by provisioning important...
4-5 December 2017 in Tallinn / ESTONIA
The SCAR Conference will focus on the representativeness of Member states and of bioeconomy areas in SCAR, with discussion on the impact of the recommendations so far and identification of points for attention for SCAR and CASA project.
The presentations and group discussions aim to increase knowledge of the objectives, activities and outcomes of SCAR and awareness of the opportunities and advantages of getting more...