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The 1st ERA ARD Call on “Bioenergy”

Research partners of five projects are at present negotiating contracts with their respective funding agencies. It is expected that the projects will then complete a Consortium Agreement and initiate their projects in April or May.

Project Summaries are available in the folder called “Projects”.
 

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This call is the 1st Coordinated Call under the ERA ARD Net.

The major objective of the call is to contribute to exploring the opportunities and threats that bioenergy production poses for the rural poor in terms of food security, poverty alleviation and rural development and to investigate how bioenergy production influences land use and affects natural resources.

Important Dates

1st September 2008 - Launch of the Call
31st October 2008 - Deadline for Submission to Call Secretariat
30th November 2008 - Expected completion of Scientific Evaluation
December 2008- Recommendations to funding agencies
Early 2009 - Contract Negotiations

Contact points of the Call Secretariat

Alex Percy-Smith
Coordinator for International Relations
 
Aarhus University
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Forsøgsvej 1
DK-4200 SLAGELSE
Denmark
 
Telephone: +45 89 99 37 10
Mobile: +45 20 72 75 09
E-mail: alex.percysmith@agrsci.dk