Researchprojects

2024 / 01

BAB 072/24: Preparation, data management and evaluation of selected evaluation

topics of the Austrian CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 and the Rural Development Program 2014-2020 As in the previous funding periods, evaluation will play an important role in the implementation period of the CAP Strategic Plan (GSP) 2023-2027. The legal framework for the monitoring and evaluation system is essentially provided by the CAP Strategic Plan Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 and its Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2289 (content of the GSP) and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2290...

BAB 068/24: Social Economy for Resilience, Inclusion and Good Life in Rural Areas (SERIGO)

Social vulnerability very easily leads to isolation and disempowerment. Both individuals and certain groups of people within a society are affected. The threat of social exclusion is particularly high in times of economic restructuring, natural disasters but also - as recently - during pandemics. Vulnerability can be a consequence of social exclusion, but can also cause social exclusion itself. In rural areas, this vulnerability often manifests itself in specific ways. An interdisciplinary...

BAB 071/24: DBZ – webbased dashboard for operational analysis

A constantly growing amount of data with an increased need for availability and user-friendliness also poses growing challenges for the BAB. Numerous interfaces to the population (e.g. funding processing) and the various independent institutions assigned to the BML create a very heterogeneous and widely ramified database infrastructure. Objective In order to be able to leave these data as independent services in the respective sovereignty and to be able to visualize them collectively, this...

BAB 070/24: Transparency of agricultural value chains

The crises of the recent past (war in Ukraine, SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, inflation rates) have once again highlighted the need for information and data on material flows within the value chains of agricultural products and foodstuffs. Comprehensive material flow representations at the level of agricultural products from primary production through the various processing stages to use are hardly available at the Austrian level. In this regard, a pilot study was carried out in 2022/23 as part of the...

BAB 069/24: Open Source Data Pipeline & Database for HyDaMS (Hydrographisches Daten Management System)

As part of the co-operation between the federal and provincial governments required by the Water Act, a monitoring network is operated to determine the water balance in Austria. This data is collected by the federal states and transferred to the Hydrographic Data Management System (HyDaMS). The HyDaMS has so far been based on proprietary software, with which over 300,000 time series with different parameters and time references are stored in a very specialised format. As part of the INSPIRE...

2023 / 03

BAB 064/23: A European Forum for Revitalisation of Marginalised Mountain Areas (COST Action) - MARGISTAR

The COST project MARGISTAR was approved in May 2022 (COST Action CA21125) and the networking of partners started with the Management Committee Meeting in November 2022. The COST Action is being carried out in 26 European participating countries with the aim of supporting networking between research institutions and practice partners who intend to overcome the marginalization of mountain areas. As a COST activity, only networking activities are funded, not the research work itself. Innovative...

BAB 067/23: Circular Bioeconomy Market Uptake and Policy Support in Central Europe (BIOECO-UP)

The project "BIOECO-UP - Circular bioeconomy market uptake and policy support in Central Europe" (CE0100254) is supported by the Interreg Central Europe 2021-2027 programme with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund. The circular economy in Central Europe is characterized by underdeveloped bio-based value chains, low consumer awareness and uneven political progress along the East-West border. BIOECO-UP deals with the further development of the circular bioeconomy in...

BAB 063/22: Communicating roots: co-learning to improve rural resilience and governance - CoROOTS (ERASMUS+ Projekt)

Co-learning methods to improve resilience management in rural areas The project was applied for on the initiative of the Prout Research Institute in Portugal in order to enable a scientific exchange of co-learning approaches developed in research projects in recent years, to disseminate them further in regional development, to implement them in practice and also to develop them further. The BAB contributes its results from the H2020 projects SIMRA, ROBUST and Liverur on the topics of social...

BAB 066/23: Empowering Rural Communities to Act for Change - RURACTIVE (Horizon Europe Projekt)

Around one third of EU citizens (two thirds in Austria) live in rural regions, but GDP per capita there is below average. The inequalities between urban and rural communities in demographic, economic and social terms are the subject of scientific projects and political programs. It is necessary to enable rural areas to compensate for disadvantages and to make greater use of potential with innovative solutions (green and digital transformation). The Horizon Europe project RURACTIVE aims to...

BAB 065/23: Pure nutrient demand and pure nutrient usage in Austrian agriculture

Agrarmarkt Austria publishes the sales volumes of the pure nutrients nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P2O5) and potash (K2O) on a quarterly basis. LBG Österreich GmbH collects the annual application quantities of pure nutrients from mineral fertilizers from the farms that voluntarily keep records for the Green Report. As part of a short study conducted by the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics in 2016, the pure nutrient requirement of Austrian agriculture was determined on the basis of...

2022 / 03

BAB 062/22: Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for improved policy processes - RUSTIK

Horizon Europe Projekt The project has been tendered in the Horizon Europe Programme under the thematic area of promoting "resilient rural communities" under the title "Grasping rural diversity and strengthening evidence for tailored policies enhancing the contribution of rural communities to ecological, digital and social transitions (RIA)" (CL6-2021-COMMUNITIES-01-01). In view of insufficient impacts and the increasing challenges posed by social and ecological developments, this call for...

BAB 061/22: Relief for agricultural und forestry sector within the framework of national emissions certificate trading

Within the framework of the eco-social tax reform of 2022, a gradual introduction of a national emission allowance trading system (nEHS) is planned, starting with an introductory phase from 1 July 2022. In connection with the introduction of the nEHS, a relief mechanism will be created to offset the additional costs from the CO2 price for agriculture and forestry. This is to ensure that domestic food production is not disadvantaged in relation to European and international competition....

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