FP7-KBBE-2009-3 Deadline: 15 January 2009

Call title: KBBE 2009: general call for proposals
• Call identifier: FP7-KBBE-2009-3
• Date of publication16: 3 September 2008
• Deadline: 15 January 2009 at 17.00.00 (Brussels local time)
• Indicative budget: EUR 188.85 million from 2009 Budget
• The budget for this call is indicative. The final budget awarded to this call, following the
evaluation of projects, may however vary by up to 10% of the total value of the call. All
budgetary figures given in this call are indicative. The repartition of the sub-budgets
awarded within this call, following the evaluation of projects, may vary by up to 10% of
the total value of the call.

Activity 2.1: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments
Activity 2.2: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being EC-INDIA Coordinated Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
Activity 2.3: Life Sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes
• Topics called:
Activity/ Area Topics called Funding Schemes
Activity 2.1: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments.
2.1.1 KBBE-2009-1-1-01: Integration of tools to support a system-based understanding of complex biological processes
Collaborative Project (large scale integrating project)
2.1.1 KBBE-2009-1-1-02: Mining genomics information of small ruminants to generate understanding of the genetic basis of phenotypes important to sustainable
production and health
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.1 KBBE-2009-1-1-03: Optimisation of methods to maintain farm animal biodiversity – SICA (African ACP)
Collaborative Project (small or Medium-Scale Focused Research
Project) for Specific Cooperation Actions Dedicated to International Cooperation
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-01: Legumes: key multifunctional legume crops for an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly future European agriculture
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-02: Multifunctional grasslands for sustainable and competitive ruminant production systems and the delivery of ecosystem services
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-03: : Irrigation water saving solutions for Mediterranean agriculture – SICA (Mediterranean Partner Countries)
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project) for Specific Cooperation Actions Dedicated to International Cooperation
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-04: Improving performance and quality of crops in the context of organic and low-input systems by breeding and management
Collaborative Project (large scale integrating project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-05: Water stress tolerance and water use efficiency in food crops
Collaborative Project (large scale integrating project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-06: Developing new methods for valuing and marketing currently non-marketable forest functions, goods and services
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-07: Meeting industrial requirements on wood raw-materials quality and quantity
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-08: Assessing and reducing vulnerability of European forests to climate change and the consequences for industrial and societal needs -
SICA (Russia)
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project) for Specific Cooperation Actions Dedicated to International Cooperation
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-09: Impact and development of Conservation Agriculture techniques in developing countries – Mandatory ICPC (African ACP)
Coordination and Support Action (supporting action)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-10: Improving fisheries assessment methods by integrating new sources of biological knowledge
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-11: Improving mollusc spat production in hatcheries
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-12: Sustainable inland extensive and semi-intensive aquaculture
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-13: From capture based to selfsustained aquaculture
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-14: Sustainable use of seas and oceans: importance of foraging fish in the ecosystem
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.2 KBBE-2009-1-2-15: : Sustainable use of seas and oceans: integration of aquaculture and fisheries in the coastal zone
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.3 KBBE-2009-1-3-01: Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS): new generation, efficacious and safe vaccine, new control strategies –
SICA (China and South East Asia)
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project) for Specific Cooperation Actions Dedicated to International Cooperation
2.1.3 KBBE-2009-1-3-02: Diseases caused by Orbiviruses (African horse sickness, bluetongue and epizootic
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research haemorrhagic disease): development of new generation vaccines and accompanying tests
project)
2.1.3 KBBE-2009-1-3-03: Bee health: identification of emerging honey bee pest and diseases and reemergence of pathogens and explaining the intimate mechanisms and the reasons for increased honey bee mortality
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.3 KBBE-2009-1-3-04: Tick borne diseases. Improvement of current vaccine and development of new vaccines for theileriosis and babesiosis through exploitation of genomic data – SICA (China and Central Asia)
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project) for Specific Cooperation Actions Dedicated to International Cooperation
2.1.3 KBBE-2009-1-3-05: Improving Campylobacter control measures in primary production of poultry
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.4 KBBE-2009-1-4-01: Development of detection methods for quarantine plant pests and pathogens for use by Plant Health Inspection Services
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.4 KBBE-2009-1-4-02: Spatial analysis of rural development measures for effective targeting of rural development policies
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.4 KBBE-2009-1-4-03: A common data exchange system for agricultural systems
Coordination and Support Action (supporting action)
2.1.4 KBBE-2009-1-4-04: Comparative analysis of factor markets for agriculture across the Member States
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.1.4 KBBE-2009-1-4-05: Policy and institutional aspects of sustainable agriculture, forestry and rural development
in the Mediterranean partner countries – SICA
(Mediterranean Partner Countries)
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project) for Specific Cooperation Actions Dedicated to International Cooperation
2.1.4 KBBE-2009-1-4-06: Agricultural Innovation Systems & Traditional knowledge – Mandatory ICPC (African ACP)
Coordination and Support Action (supporting action)
2.1.4 KBBE-2009-1-4-07: Globalisation and trade impact on developing countries – Mandatory ICPC (African ACP)
Coordination and Support Action (supporting action)
2.1.4 KBBE-2009-1-4-10: Consolidate alliances with Asia in the field of aquaculture - Mandatory ICPC (China and Asia)
Coordination and Support Action (coordinating action)
2.1.4 KBBE-2009-1-4-11: Consolidate alliances with the Mediterranean in the field of aquaculture - Mandatory ICPC (Mediterranean Partner Countries)
Coordination and Support Action (coordinating action)
2.1.4 KBBE-2009-1-4-12: Supporting governance in aquaculture research and innovation Coordination and Support Action (supporting action)
Activity 2.2: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being 2.2.1 KBBE-2009-2-1-01: Determinants of food habit formation/breaking
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.2.1 KBBE-2009-2-1-02: Benefit/risk perception and communication in the food chain Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research
project)
2.2.1 KBBE-2009-2-1-03: Behavioural models for prevention of obesity, with a particular focus on children Collaborative Project (small or
medium-scale focused research project)
2.2.2 KBBE-2009-2-2-01: Stress, addiction and eating behaviour
Collaborative Project (large scale integrating project)
2.2.2 KBBE-2009-2-2-02: Role and mechanisms of action of plant bioactive compounds
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.2.2 KBBE-2009-2-2-03: Development of biomarkers for health-promoting functions
Collaborative Project (large scale integrating project)
2.2.2 KBBE-2009-2-2-04: Strategies for sustainable eating habits Coordination and Support Action (supporting Action)
2.2.3 KBBE-2009-2-3-01: New solutions for improving refrigeration technologies along the food chain Collaborative Project (large scale integrating project)
2.2.3 KBBE-2009-2-3-02: Sharing food technology research and development by means of international collaboration - SICA
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project) for Specific Cooperation Actions Dedicated to International Cooperation
2.2.3 KBBE-2009-2-3-03: Sustainable food and feed processing
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.2.4 KBBE-2009-2-4-01 Analytical tools for characterisation of nano-particles in the food matrix Collaborative Project (small or
medium-scale focused research project)
2.2.4 KBBE-2009-2-4-02: Risk-benefit assessment of food supplements - SICA Collaborative Project (large scale integrating project) for Specific
Cooperation Actions Dedicated to International Cooperation
2.2.4 KBBE-2009-2-4-03: Combined exposure to pesticides Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.2.4 KBBE-2009-2-4-04: Prospects for novel foods Coordination and Support Action (supporting Action)

2.2.5 KBBE-2009-2-5-01: International food trade: anticipating the impact of climate change on the safety of European and global food markets - SICA
Collaborative Project (large scale integrating project) for Specific Cooperation Actions Dedicated to International Cooperation

2.2.5 KBBE-2009-2-5-02: Barriers to network learning in SMEs
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.2.5 KBBE-2009-2-5-03: Transparency along the food value chain Coordination and Support Action (supporting Action)
2.2.6 KBBE-2009-2-6-01: Enhanced co-operation in food and health with a view to strengthening the European Research Area Coordination and Support Action
(supporting Action)
2.2.7 KBBE-2009-2-7-01: Development of functional foods and ingredients Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project) carried out in
coordination with DBT (India)
2.2.7 KBBE-2009-2-7-02: Valorisation of by-products in food processing Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project) carried out in
FP7 Cooperation Work Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
coordination with DBT (India)
Activity 2.3: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes

2.3.1 KBBE-2009-3-1-01: Optimisation of secondary metabolite production in plants: localisation, transport, storage and stability
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.3.1 KBBE-2009-3-1-02: Jatropha curcas – breeding strategy – towards a sustainable crop for biomaterials and biofuels – SICA ( India and/or African ACP and/or
Latin America)

Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project) for Specific Cooperation Actions Dedicated to International
Cooperation

2.3.1 KBBE-2009-3-1-03:Abiotic stress tolerance: biotechnological applications from the lab to the field Coordination and Support Action
(supporting action)
2.3.1 KBBE-2009-3-1-04: Prospecting for novel plantproduced compounds
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.3.2 KBBE-2009-3-2-01: Novel marine bioactive compounds for European industries
Collaborative Project (large scale integrating project)
2.3.2 KBBE-2009-3-2-02: Sustainable use of seas and oceans- Biomass from micro- and macro-algae for industrial applications
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.3.3 KBBE-2009-3-3-01: Novel industrial microorganisms with optimised metabolic pathways
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.3.3 KBBE-2009-3-3-02: Integrated multi-enzyme, multistep biocatalytic engineering
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.3.4 KBBE-2009-3-4-01: Biomass and bioproducts: sustainability certification and socioeconomic implications – Mandatory ICPC (Latin America and/or
African ACP and/or Asia)
Coordination and Support Action (coordinating action)
2.3.4 KBBE-2009-3-4-02: Biomass pre-treatment for optimised biomass deconstruction and analytical characterisation – SICA (Brazil)
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project) for Specific Cooperation
Actions Dedicated to International Cooperation
2.3.5 KBBE-2009-3-5-01: Molecular approaches to bioremediation of polyaromatic hydrocarbon compounds
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.3.5 KBBE-2009-3-5-02: Innovative biotechnology approaches as eco-efficient alternative to industrial processes
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.3.6 KBBE-2009-3-6-01: Nanobiotechnology: smart devices to study biomolecule dynamics in real time Collaborative Project (small or
medium-scale focused research project)
2.3.6 KBBE-2009-3-6-02: Nanobiotechnology: functionalised membranes
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.3.6 KBBE-2009-3-6-03: Nanobiotechnology: bio-interfaces for environmental applications
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
2.3.6 KBBE-2009-3-6-04: Nanobiotechnology: analysis of the ethical, safety, regulatory and socioeconomic aspects
Coordination and Support Action (supporting action)
2.3.6 KBBE-2009-3-6-05: Synthetic biology for biotechnological applications
Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)