Workshop 18 "Funding opportunities, a focus on the EIP Agri: exchange of good practices"

The workshop will focus on EMFAF’s potential to support research and innovation, as well as the energy transition of fisheries, aquaculture and maritime sectors. In particular, the workshop will focus on how public funding can act as enabler of bottom-up and collaborative innovation projects in the sector. The EIP-AGRI – the European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural productivity and sustainability model will be presented as a concrete example, focusing mainly on what the audience can suggest in terms of forming partnerships, using bottom-up approaches and linking actors in different types of interactive innovation projects under the EMFAF. This workshop will respond to the several requests from the implementing bodies of the EMFAF to have a platform that will facilitate further exchange of good practices and experiences. More general challenges when it comes to accessibility to European funds could also be discussed.

This event aims to explore and discuss the opportunities available for fishers and aquaculture producers through bottom-up innovation and how these opportunities might best be captured.

Innovation be an important source of diversified and stable income for fishers and aquaculture producers as well as a catalyst for the creation of high-quality jobs, competitiveness and growth in coastal/rural areas.