The project MIXED recognises that efficiency and resilience must be developed with farmers and in the contexts in which farms, farmers’ organizations, service suppliers and value chain actors operate.
During the four years the project will last, the plan is to develop many different networks across Europe, covering a wide range of different mixed agricultural and agroforestry systems. And in addition to the learning that will take place between the partners, it will also create a foundation of scientific knowledge about the various methods and systems that can help to develop the European agricultural sector in a sustainable direction.
Project partners: MIXED consists of 19 partners from 10 different EU countries. Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology in Foulum, Denmark, is the coordinator of the project. The project duration is from October 2020 and 4 years onwards. The project has a budget of 7 million Euro. The project partners are:
- ICROFS, Aarhus Universitet
- Forshungsinstitut für Biologischen Landbau Stiftung (FiBL)
- Aberystwyth University (ABER)
- Wageningen University (WU)
- Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)
- Institut National del la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
- Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU)
- Instytut Uprawy Nawozenia I Gleboznawstwa, Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy (IUNG-PIB)
- Institute of Agricultural Economics (IEA-AR)
- Organic Denmark
- AGROOF
- CONSULAI
- Instituto Superior de Agronomia da Universidade de Lisboa (ISA-ULisboa)
- Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society Ltd. (SAOS)
- Institute for Rural Development Research (IfLS)
- Fundacja Imienia Stanislawa Karlowskiego (FSK JUCHOW)
- Arbeitgemeinschaft Schwäbisches Donaumoos (ARGE Donaumoos/ARGE)
- Hochstamm Suisse
- The Association ”Local Action Group Făgărașul de Sud -Land of Posadas”
Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 862357
Contact: Prof. Tommy Dalgaard, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University. E-mail: tommy.dalgaard at agro.au.dk, Twitter
EURAF is indirectly involved trough its members in ISA at the University of Lisboa (PT) and AGROOF (FR).