Abstract
e EIP-AGRI is dedicated to foster competitive and sustainable farming and forestry that 'achieves more and better from less' and therefore ensuring a steady supply of food, feed and biomaterials. e aim of this paper is to provide insight into the consideration of grasslands in the EIP-AGRI. It discusses focus groups (FG), operational groups (OG), multi-actor projects (MAP) and thematic networks (TN) with a link to grasslands. Grassland is one of the many agricultural topics covered by these EIP-AGRI key building blocks. In FG, grassland topics are well represented (they were addressed in 46.5% of all FG) in contrast to OG, where they are the subject of a marginal number of OG (7%). e OG cover a wide range of grassland related topics. e topics addressed by OG are less focused on environmental issues than, e.g. recommendations coming from the FG. Under the EIP initiatives, several grassland MAP/TN were implemented as H2020 research projects, where farmers are at the centre of practice-based innovation.