What is CORE Organic II? Just as birds of passage can gain up to 70 percent of energy in coordinating their efforts by flying in formation, research programmes can profit from transnational coordination. EU supports 3 years of research CORE Organic II is a European transnational research cooperation project supported by the European Commission. This project runs for three years, March 2010 to February 2013 and is coordinated by ICROFS Read more about CORE Organic II... Purpose of CORE Organic II The main idea of CORE Organic is the coordination of research programmes between partner countries.

The CORE Organic pilot projects The main objective of the precurser, CORE Organic, was enhancing the quality, relevance and resource utilization in organic food and farming research. Partners from 11 countries launched 8 transnationally funded research projects These projects ran from 2007 to 2010. Read more about CORE Organic and the 8 pilot projects

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News: CORE Organic research seminar 15 May in Amsterdam

Relaunch of the CORE Organic newsletter The series of CORE Organic newsletters will display results from the CORE Organic funded projects. Please find the first issue here. CORE Organic research seminar in the Netherlands 15 May 2013 The projects initiated by CORE Organic II have been invited to present their projects and results at a meeting in Amsterdam 15 May 2013. The first part of the meeting is open for all. The programme can be found here and the registration form here. Please register by 1 May 2013. Third call: The project selected from the third call using the real common pot funding instrument is IMPROVE-P: IMproved Phosphorus Resource efficiency in Organic agriculture Via recycling and Enhanced biological mobilization. The coordinator is Kurt Möller, Institute of Crop Science, Universität Hohenheim, Germany. A summary and a list of countries in the consortium can be found here Second call: One project was selected from each of the thematic research areas of the second call: COBRA - Coordinating Organic plant BReeding Activities for Diversity coordinated by Thomas Döring, The Organic Research Centre, United Kingdom. and HealthyGrowth - Healthy growth: From niche to volume with integrity and trust coordinated by Egon Noe, Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark. A summary and a list of countries in the consortium can be found here for COBRA and HealthyGrowth. Websites and leaflets will be prepared before summer. First call: The 11 research projects funded from the first call have started between September 2011 and January 2012. For project information and project leaflets: see under "Research projects" above. Presentations from the project coordinators in Organic Eprints, or a short overview in this CORE Organic II project leaflet CORE Organic research seminar in Paris 30 November 2011 Please find here a link to a newsletter about the event and here a link to Organic Eprints with the presentations from the 11 new CORE Organic II projects and the 8 finalised CORE Organic I projects.

Welcome to CORE Organic II

The European transnational research cooperation project, the ERA-net named CORE Organic II, consists of a network of 26 partners from 21 European countries. The main aim of CORE Organic II is to agree on common research priorities and to select transnational research projects to be funded by the partners. The ERA-net started in March 2010 and runs for three years. It will launch at least two transnational calls, initiate research projects organize project monitoring and dissemination of results, and consider funding models.

Map showing the 21 partner countries (26 partners in total)

Great potential for innovation Organic agriculture and food markets have grown considerably and organic agriculture addresses important challenges of European agriculture, such as sustainable production of high quality food, reducing dependency on high energy inputs, improving environmental and nature conservation, climate change adaptation, animal welfare and rural livelihoods. Organic farming and food systems still have a big potential for innovation and improved solutions. Read more about CORE Organic II...

21 May 2013

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CORE Organic II leaflet

Get the CORE Organic II leaflet, presenting CORE Organic II and the research projects from the first call. Also you can download a CORE Organic II poster.

Restricted FBN work space The former CORE Organic Funding Body Network (2007-2010) shared documents in a work space of restricted access. Go to restricted work space (external link to www.icrofs.org)

Contact the coordinator

CORE Organic II is coordinated by International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, ICROFS Website: www.icrofs.org E-mail: coreorganic@icorfs.org Phone: +45 87157716 (Ulla Sonne Bertelsen)