Project Background
ECO-Ready is a 4-year EU Research and Innovation Action project coordinated by the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. ECO-READY project aspires to recognize, categorize, and dissect the drivers that affect food security across Europe. The ECO-READY project will develop a real-time surveillance system, an Observatory offered as an e-platform and as a mobile application. This will function as the necessary singular source of information, provide real-time assessments for the food system, will be available to society, policymakers, the scientific community, and the agri-food industry, and integrated with a network of 10 Living Labs, covering all bioclimatic regions in Europe, forming the ECO-READY project knowledge infrastructure. ECO-READY will produce knowledge-based resilience strategies and develop tools that will be embedded on the Observatory, such as an early warning system and decision support tools using innovative Artificial Intelligence based on holistic prediction models and Life Cycle Assessment results. ECO-READY will ensure that European farmers and society’s interests be reflected in future policymaking and monitoring, through early-stage active engagement incorporating bottom-up recommendations, facilitated by the increased usership of the digital tools developed, and resulting in increased awareness for climate-adaptive and mitigating agri-food products. Furthermore, the Observatory smart application will include tools that will empower the citizens to actively engage in policy making, and interact directly with the scientific community, farmers, and industry and policy makers, thus driving change in consumption habits.
About the project
Project title: ECO-READY - Achieving Ecological Resilient Dynamism for the European food system through consumer-driven policies, socio-ecological challenges, biodiversity, data-driven policy, sustainable futures
The short name of the project: ECO-READY
Name of the program: Research and development program - HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Call number and title: HORIZON-CL6-2022
Grant agreement ID: 101084201
Project Annotation:
The project focuses on strengthening the resilience and flexibility of EU agriculture in relation to climate change, starting from primary production, i.e. agriculture itself, through food production, transport to wholesale and retail and consumer preferences.
Total eligible expenditure: EUR 13 628 428,75
EU subsidy: EUR 13 628 428,50
Implementation of the project: December 1, 2022 – November 30, 2026
Involved Entities: Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Coordinating Institution: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Principal Project Director: Dr. Ioannis Manikas
Project Manager: Marie Aristea Bakogianni