UNIPI Team Leader: Prof. Francesco Paolo Di Iacovo, Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie

The overall objective of Contracts2.0 is to develop novel contract-based approaches to incentivise farmers for the increased provision of environmental public goods along with private goods using result-based, collective, land tenure and value chain approaches.

Newly developed contract-based approaches are environmentally more effective, economically viable for farmers and support the longevity of contractual arrangements. Moreover, they enlarge farmers’ entrepreneurial freedom and responsibility, and are better adapted to the relevant temporal and spatial scales of specific environmental goods.

Contracts2.0 improves existing and designs new contracts in rural areas to realise synergies on the ground: Therefore, Contracts2.0 adapts a Design Thinking process using a six-step iterative process of analytical and creative steps to design and test novel contracts. Further, Contracts2.0 describes novel contract design principles as well as policy guidelines to provide facilitating policy framework. Contracts2.0 activates the experience of 11 existing innovation initiatives and 13 action partners around Europe as a basis for the novel contracts.

The initiatices are involved in all steps of the project and i) are pivotal in our analysis of existing initiatives in our 'innovation labs', ii) support experimental testing of novel contract features, and iii) test novel models on the ground.

Contracts2.0 provides: An inventory and SWOT analysis of existing result-based, collective, land tenure and value chain approaches; a catalogue of factors facilitating and hindering existing approaches; a set of novel contract design principles; a guideline for policy framework fostering contract-based approaches and the development of appropriate agri-environmental-climate policies; a set of tailor made communication and dissemination materials for target audiences, and new cooperation and innovation networks for ongoing improvement of rural development policies and instruments.

Coordinator

LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FUER AGRARLANDSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG (ZALF) e.V (Germany)

Participants

• EIGEN VERMOGEN VAN HET INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK (Belgium)
• ESSRG KFT (Hungary)
• THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (United Kingdom)
• CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LEDEVELOPPEMENT - C.I.R.A.D. EPIC (France)
• UNIVERSITA DI PISA (Italy)
• UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI (Slovenia)
• WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY (Netherlands)
• UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI (Poland)
• DEUTSCHE UMWELTHILFE EV (Germany)
• GROUPEMENT D'INTERET PUBLIQUE CENTRE DE RESSOURCES SUR LE PASTORALISME ET LA GESTION DE L'ESPACE (France)
• ORSEGI NEMZETI PARK IGAZGATOSAG (Hungary)
• BOERENNATUUR.NL (Netherlands)
• GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER (Germany)
• NATURAL ENGLAND (United Kingdom)
• SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET (Sweden)
• COMUNIDAD DE MADRID (Spain)
• AGROBEHEERCENTRUM ECOKWADRAAT (Belgium)
• DEUTSCHER BAUERNVERBAND E.V. (Germany)
• KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET (Denmark)
• UNIONE COMUNI GARFAGNANA (Italy)
• STIFTUNG RHEINISCHE KULTURLANDSCHAFT (Germany)
• BORNHOLMS REGIONSKOMMUNE (Denmark)
• BORNHOLMS LANDBRUG & FODEVARER (Denmark)
• HELICONIA S. COOP. MAD. (Spain)
• STIFTUNG WESTFÄLISCHE KULTURLANDSCHAFT (Germany)
• UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID (Spain)

Start date: 1/05/2019

End date: 30/04/2023

Project cost: EUR 4 998 188,75

EU contribution: EUR 4 998 188,75

UNIPI quota: : EUR 154 000

Call Title: H2020-RUR-2018-2

UNIPI role: participant

Project website: https://www.project-contracts20.eu/