CARBONICA’s Story: Carbon Initiative for Climate-resilient Agriculture (Excellence Hubs Project)

CARBONICA: Carbon Initiative for Climate-resilient Agriculture is a European Union Excellence Hubs (EH) project funded under the Horizon WIDERA call. The objectives for this webinar are to: • Support the formation of an EH Community; • Increase awareness of and support for CARBONICA specifically, and EH projects and the Widening Programme more generally; • Catalyze new collaborations; • Disseminate best-practices and lessons-learned from elaborating the CARBONICA proposal and executing the CARBONICA project. The primary target audiences are: • Other EH projects and their external stakeholders; • Stakeholders accelerating the green transition of the agro-food sector; • Stakeholders for the EU Widening Program, including those with interests / activities in writing EU proposals and executing EU projects. The webinar will begin with the proposal background that led to the CARBONICA concept and consortium creation, cover the development of the proposal and execution of the project to date, and conclude with the post-project ambitions and vision. The webinar will include key characteristics of the project including lessons-learned and how the consortium will convert the challenges into solutions. The webinar is intended to consist of a ~35 min. presentation and ~15 min. of Q&A and open discussion. CARBONICA has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101087233. Views and opinions expressed are those of the project only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.