Six interconnected work packages over 36 months
BIO-CROP's workplan is organised in six interconnected Work Packages. Each is led by a partner with complementary expertise. The WP Leader Board meets quarterly to coordinate inter-WP linkages, supported by monthly online consortium meetings and a central project cloud.
WP1 — Coordination and Management
Lead: Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
Overall scientific, administrative and financial coordination, including reporting, mid-term review, and Steering Committee operations.
WP2 — MRCS Design and Bio-Solutions
Lead: Estonian University of Life Sciences (Estonia)
Designs and implements regionally adapted MRCS using existing trials and new field demonstrations. Integrates bio-inputs and allelopathic interactions, and synthesises long-term Nordic–Baltic intercropping data.
WP3 — Environmental and Socio-Economic Trade-Offs
Lead: RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), social LCA, socio-economic modelling and farm-level viability assessments of the MRCS developed in the project.
WP4 — Living Labs
Lead: NIBIO (Norway)
Establishes and operates Living Labs in Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland, complemented by learning sites in France and Türkiye. NIBIO coordinates the Living Lab methodology, ensuring co-creation between farmers, researchers, advisors and policymakers.
WP5 — Knowledge Transfer and Capacity Building
Lead: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden)
Develops multilingual training materials, webinars, MOOCs and farmer-friendly decision-support tools. Open-access resources are promoted via a digital knowledge platform.
WP6 — Policy and Market Integration
Lead: Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
Translates project results into evidence-based policy briefs, agroecological business models and alignment with CAP instruments — through regional dialogues, a national roundtable and an EU-level final policy event.
Funding
The project is funded by the European Union and national funding bodies.
In Lithuania, the project activities are funded by the Research Council of Lithuania.
Project No. LMT – S-Agroecology 26-1.
BIO-CROP — AGROECOLOGY Partnership, Call 2 (Horizon Europe co-funded European partnership).
Project duration: 2 March 2026 – February 2029 (36 months).