REECAP 2025

Researchers from the H2020 FRAMEwork project made significant contributions to the 7th Annual Meeting of the Research Network on Economic Experiments for the Common Agricultural Policy (REECAP), held from June 2-5, 2025, at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Leipzig.

REECAP is an EU-wide network founded in 2017 to contribute to the improvement of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Their annual meeting brings together researchers, evaluators and policy makers interested in the use of economic experimental approaches for more evidence-based policy design and evaluation. 

Thomas Rellensmann and Moritz Fritschle from the University of Osnabrück presented their FRAMEwork survey findings through two conference presentations. These talks highlighted insights from surveys considering how financial mechanisms could be better designed to support farmers in adopting more sustainable, biodiversity-sensitive, agricultural practices while maintaining economic viability. Their work directly contributes to REECAP and FRAMEwork's core mission of using experimental approaches to evaluate and inform the Common Agricultural Policy.

This year, REECAP 2025 once again brought together researchers, experts, and policy-makers from across the EU to discuss cutting-edge approaches in agricultural economics. The four-day conference featured workshops on choice experiments and living labs, presentations by renowned experts Ulf Liebe (University of Warwick) and Sven Anders (University of Alberta), a field trip to an experimental field station and an Early Career Researcher Award competition.

This award was previously won by project researcher Thomas Rellensmann for his research design in 2023.