Together with 18 European partners our chair group successfully passed the H2020 application process for an agri-environment project called EFFECT. The overall objective of the project, which has a budget of almost 5,000,000 EUR, is to develop and pilot a theoretically well-founded and empirically well-adapted package of new contractual frameworks for agri-environment schemes to enable farmers to reconcile agricultural production with enhanced delivery of environmental and climate public goods and services to the benefit of society at large.