The Strategic Roadmapping Workshop in November 2023, aimed to bring together Green ERA-Hub (GEH) partners and select stakeholders, to support the development of the strategic roadmap and to foster collaboration and shared learning. The main objective of the workshop was to identify thematic research areas across the various initiatives as well as opportunities and priorities for the GEH going forward.
The workshop unfolded through structured sessions commencing with a creative brainstorming session where participants identified synergies as well as unique ideas between the GEH initiatives. It was followed by a gap analysis session during which representatives from several of the Horizon Europe (HEU) Partnerships provided brief overviews of their strategic research direction. Workshop participants used this information to identify which ideas may be gaps that the GEH can fill. The opportunity session identified ideas that were impactful for societal changes as well as being unique to the GEH. To prioritise ideas, participants voted on ideas they believe were unique, novel and could make a difference.
Some of the ideas were comparable and were clustered together. Some of the ideas/clusters of ideas that received the most votes are:
- plant biology for nutrition and health, resilience to pests and diseases and for bioeconomy purposes/benefits
- an integrated approach and systems towards a food system that supports planetary health through redesigned livestock systems, changes in awareness and diet, animal breeding to meet climate goals and maintain climate resilience and animal/herd management (including animal feed) to support climate mitigation
- a systems approach to understand interactions between soil, plant, environment and crop management systems in context,
- knowledge generation in relation to nutritional value and health benefits/claims for plants and niche crops (including proteins) and the benefits of organic agriculture for human nutrition and health
- improved measurement methods (that are cheap and accurate) for intake of grazing animals & methane emissions from animals at a range of scales and measurement of soil carbon
The ideas and topics that emerged from this strategic roadmapping session will be used to inform the GEH strategic roadmap, as well as provide input for the research call Work Package (WP3).
GEH Roadmapping Workshop Report Feb_2024.pdf (669.68 KB) Strategic roadmapping