CALHUAMB Operational Group

The Europe 2020 strategy places the bioeconomy as a key element for Europe's smart and green growth. Therefore, in 2012, the European Union launched the European Bioeconomy Strategy with the aim of improving the knowledge base and fostering innovation to increase productivity through the implementation of European Innovation Partnerships (EIPs).

In the field of Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability, the CIE establishes as one of the five priority areas the need to improve information and risk management systems that will provide farmers with new tools to ensure the monitoring of the environmental and social outcomes of farms.

Along these lines, the Spanish Bioeconomy Strategy Horizon 2030, within the scope of the strategic line "Promoting competitiveness and market development associated with the bioeconomy," includes advancing the calculation of the environmental footprint of agricultural products to develop the concept of social and environmental sustainability. For these reasons, within the framework of this call for proposals,