6 EU Policies opportunities

The overall objective of the project is to provide an ex-ante analysis of the potential economic, social and environmental impacts as well as human rights impacts of a trade negotiation in India. It will facilitate a better policy mix and coherence between the objectives of trade liberalisation and the EU policy objective of sustainable development and respect for human rights. The SIA will assist trade negotiators to fine tuning their position, in order to achieve the objectives set and maximise the contribution of trade policy to all pillars of sustainable development and human rights.

The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and six countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been applied since October 2016. It is necessary to launch an ex-post evaluation in order to assess the functioning and impact of the agreement five years after implementation to comply with the obligation under Article 116 of the EPA to review the agreement no later than five years after its entry into force.   The review was launched in November 2021 and the parties need to have at their disposal solid evidence based on research assessing the effects of the EPA in order to carry out the review. The ex-post evaluation will analyse the extent of implementation and compliance on both sides, preliminary outcomes in terms of trade and investment flows, and estimate impacts of the agreement in light of sustainable development objectives. The ex-post evaluation will feed into the review process.

Since 1975, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) have been helping businesses innovate for growth. KTPs connect forward thinking businesses with the UK’s world class knowledge bases to deliver a business led innovation projects. The academic partner (known as the knowledge base) will work with a business to: develop the project provide academic input recruit a suitable graduate, known as an associate. They will act as the employer of the associate, who then works at the business for the majority of the project. There are two types of KTP: classic KTPs focus on developing new or better products and services management KTPs focus on developing better businesses by enhancing processes and building management capability. A KTP project can last between 12 and 36 months, depending on the challenge and the needs of the business.

This framework contract will provide the Commission, in particular the Units D.4 - Economics in Agriculture and D.5 - Food Security of the Joint Research Centre, with proven high-quality expertise in using and developing (agro-)economic modelling tools and with the ability to provide the Commission with the required technical support, analysis and evaluation for the analysis of agricultural and related policies in Europe. A central point of the support requested under this contract is on the technical support for model maintenance, development and application of core agro-economic models used in the respective JRC units (in particular Aglink-Cosimo, AGMEMOD, CAPRI, IFM-CAP, MAGNET, CGEBox, and the BioSAMs).