Behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic
Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy

Number	Deliverable Title	Description	Dis. Level	Due Date	Status	Link
D1.1	BESTMAP website and web-based within-project communication system	This deliverable describes the creation of the project website, as a foundation of the future effective communication activities. It further explains the purpose of the BESTMAP website and the current, and future implementation and maintenance of the website.	Public	November 2019	Approved	Download
D1.2	Data Management Plan	This document describes the secure handling of research data during and after the project.	Public	February 2020	Approved	Download
D1.3	Guidelines and protocols harmonizing activities across CSs	This document synthesises the results from the implementation of the five case studies into structured guidelines, which include information such as guidelines on which and how many stakeholders to engage in regional/national workshops; types of geospatial data to collect in each CS; specific instructions on calibration/validation for modellers; guidelines on how to stratify and select farmers for interviews.	Public	October 2020	Approved	Download
D1.4	Data Management Plan (Update 1)	This document describes the updated management procedures providing the secure handling of research data during and after the project.	Public	February 2021	Approved	Download
D1.5	Exploitation plan including business model and market analysis	This deliverable explains the project exploitation plan in detail and how the facilitatation and utilisation of results in further research activities other than those covered by BESTMAP are to be implemented. Additionally, information about the developing, creating and marketing consultancy of modelling services using the conceptual framework developed by BESTMAP are to be described in the document.	Confidential	February 2021	Submitted
D1.6	Data Management Plan (Update 2)	This document is to describe the updated management procedures providing the secure handling of research data during and after the project.	Public	August 2022	Approved	Download
D1.7	Exploitation plan including business model and market analysis (Update)	This deliverable will describe the updated plan for exploitation and utilisation of project activities and results.	Confidential	August 2022	Approved	Download Summary
D1.8	Guidelines and protocols harmonizing activities across CSs (Update)	This document will synthesise the updated requirements for generating results from the implementation of the five case studies into structured guidelines, which include information such as guidelines on which and how many stakeholders to engage in regional/national workshops; types of geospatial data to collect in each CS; guidelines on how to stratify and select farmers for interviews.	Public	December 2022	Approved	Download
D2.1	Compendium of the co-design sessions outputs	This deliverable synthesises the outputs of the different Case Studies and further explains the general methodology for interacting with the CS and the knowledge extracted from each CS.	Confidential	February 2021	Approved	Download Summary
D2.2	Conceptual framework and architecture	This document consolidates the conceptual modular and flexible BESTMAP Policy Impact Assessment Model (PIAM) architecture by reviewing different options of its core components and their inter-dependencies.	Public	December 2020	Approved	Download
D2.3	Dashboard design prototype	This deliverable will describe the undergone operations for consolidating the conceptual modular and flexible BESTMAP-PIAM architecture.	Public	February 2022	Approved	Download
D2.4	Economic scenarios outputs based on policy workshops	This deliverable will describe the outputs of the DART-BIO model for the different policy scenarios, including a baseline scenario and the implementation of additional trends and policies.	Public	February 2022	Approved	Download
D2.5	Conceptual framework and architecture (Update)	This document will consolidate the updated conceptual modular and flexible BESTMAP Policy Impact Assessment Model (PIAM) architecture by reviewing different options of its core components and their inter-dependencies.	Public	August 2021	Approved	Download
D3.1	Case Study Base Layer dataset for each of the CSs	This deliverable informs about the geospatial dataset for the five Case Study areas of BESTMAP, focusing on this deliverable informs the results from an empirical data collection, purposefully conducted for establishing farmers’ activities, demographics, labor, mechanisations and behavioural characteristics.	Public	November 2020	Approved	Download the Metadata Table	Download the dataset for each of the case studies
D3.2	European Base Layer	Similarly to the Case Base Layer dataset deliverable, this one entails information about the dataset for the BESTMAP Case Study areas. However, based on a specific down- and upscaling algorithms, the European Base Layer is going to be focused on generating data for the modelling tasks within the European scale.	Public	February 2021	Approved	Download the European Base Layer PDF file	Download the Metadata Table
D3.3	ESS, biodiversity and socio-economic models for each CS	This document will consolidate the developed Case Study-specific indicators related to structural change in agricultural sector and its integration with rural society. It will further describe the full set of parameterised, calibrated, validated and documented models.	Public	February 2022	Approved	Download
D3.4	Summaries of data, obstacles and challenges from interview campaigns	This deliverable documents the BESTMAP interview campaigns carried out to obtain data on farmers’ decision-making with regard to agri- environmental schemes (AES). It covers a detailed description of methodology, reporting on the concrete steps taken to collect and analyse interview data. It also discusses obstacles and challenges to BESTMAP interview campaigns.	Public	November 2020	Approved	Download
D3.5	Farming System Archetypes for each CS	This deliverable is to describe the creation of the Farming System Archetypes (FSAs) and the modelling tasks for classifying the FSAs to each of the project's Case Studies.	Public	June 2021	Approved	Download
D3.6	Farmers interview scripts for all CS	This document will entail information on the empirical data collection from farmers, including data on farmers activities, labour, mechanisation, participation in quality schemes, markets and behavioural characteristics across in each Farming System Archetypesh CS region.	Public	June 2021	Approved	Download Summary
D4.1	Agent-Based Models for each CS	This document will synthesise information on the creation of Agent-Based Models (ABMs) for each CS. Also, the deliverable presents details about the process of testing and implementation of the ABMs.	Public	December 2022	Upcoming
D4.2	Trade-off/synthesis analyses including spatial co-occurrence of ESS/biodiversity socio-economic	This document will contain information on the trade-offs and synergies among multiple dimensions in all the BESTMAP CSs and how the ncertainty associated with Farming System Archetypes ‘bundles’ will be utilised to provide confidence intervals to the change, trade-offs and synergies among environmental and socio-economic dimensions.	Public	August 2022	Approved	Download
D4.3	Mapping of ESS/biodiversity/socio-economic bundles into policy indicators	This document will explain the process of identifying and linking ESS, biodiversity and socio-economic bundles into existing policy indicators.	Public	December 2022	Upcoming
D4.4	Systematic analysis of the CSs	In this deliverable the main findings of the regional CS will be synthesized, comparing Farming System Archetypes identified in each CS, and the impact of EU policies on these.	Public	February 2023	Submitted	Download
D5.1	Analysis of the representativeness of CS in EU context	Within this deliverable, a metric will be defined to describe how well do the CS FSAs represent the EU clusters, and provide information about how many more sites (and where) would constitute a representative set of CSs to cover as many European-wide Farming System Archetypes across Europe.	Public	August 2023	Upcoming
D5.2	InVEST models at the European-scale	This deliverable will describe how InVEST models are applied at the EU scale and validated using simple correlation to validation data to assess how well they perform.	Public	February 2023	Upcoming
D5.3	ABM at the European-scale	This document will inform about the process and method of upscaling ABM models from the CS to European scale.	Public	April 2023	Upcoming
D5.4	Mapping of vegetation indices and metrics, and their utility in FSA mapping at CS scale	This deliverable will report back on the process of mapping vegetation indices and metrics, and their utility in FSA mapping at CS scale.	Public	October 2021	Approved	Download
D5.5	Roadmap for research, capacity, and financing options for scaling-up BESTMAP approach	This deliverable will present the creation of a white paper roadmap reviewing the research, regulatory, capacity and financing requirements to scale up the approach of BESTMAP to be used as an operational policy impact assessment platform by the EC.	Public	August 2023	Upcoming
D6.1	Analysis of needs and capacity of different audiences including policymakers, expert practitioners and other modellers	In order to create coherent modelling capacity, BESTMAP is to ensure relevant support activities to all stakeholders. This deliverable informs on the approach to identify needs and capacity of policy makers, expert practitioners, and the modelling community.	Public	August 2020	Approved	Download
D6.2	Report on engagement with relevant projects and initiatives	Within this deliverable BESTMAP will report on the engagement will other projects and initiatives, based on a proactive approach.	Public	June 2023	Upcoming
D6.3	Communication Plan and Dissemination Plan	The purpose of this deliverable is to establish communication and dissemination strategy to target various audiences and convey clear, understandable, coordinated and effective messages, thus raising awareness and maximising the benefits resulting from BESTMAP.	Public	April 2020	Approved	Download
D6.4	Policy dashboard and e-learning course	This deliverable will present a dashboard, helping to visualize and select outputs from the different policy scenarios, and the multiple dimensions of the economic model outputs, FSAs mapping, ABM outputs, ESS/biodiversity/socio-economic bundles trade-off and translated indicators outputs, also promoting the dashboard to relevant stakeholders by creating an e-learning online course.	Public	May 2023	Upcoming
D6.5	Integration guide for using common CGE/PE models with BESTMAP models	This document will present an integration guide allowing the use of other common CGE/PE models, in particular MAGNET, CAPRI and Agri-COSIMO, integrating them to the open-sourced models developed in the project.	Public	August 2022	Approved	Download
D6.6	Virtual Lab integration	Within this deliverable, BESTMAP will pilot and implement the ESS and ABM models at European-scale in a Virtual Lab as an online virtual computational service, hosted in the LifeWatch-ERIC IT infrastructure.	Public	August 2023	Upcoming
D6.7	Policy notes	This deliverable will present policy notes based on the outcomes and recommendations of the project.	Public	May 2023	Submitted	Download
D6.8	Communication Plan and Dissemination Plan (Update)	This deliverable will present an update of the communication and dissemination strategy based on the monitoring and results halfway through the project lifetime.	Confidential	August 2021	Approved	Download Summary
D7.1	H - Requirement No. 1	Detailed information on the informed consent procedures that are implemented for the participation of humans and in regard to data processing.	Confidential	December 2019	Submitted
D7.2	POPD - Requirement No.3	This deliverable will ensure that each beneficiary lives up to the data protection standards of the European Commission.	Confidential	October 2020	Submitted
D7.3	OEI - Requirement No. 4	Detailed information on the measures to minimise the risks to research participants in this project will be submitted in D7.3.	Confidential	February 2021	Submitted