The EU-FarmBook platform is being developed to test a big idea: Can all of the tangible outputs of EU-funded research and innovation projects be brought together and organized in one user-friendly platform to help get practical knowledge into the hands of the farmers, foresters and advisors across Europe who need it most?
The challenges to doing this are great – data(base) quality and compatibility issues, language barriers, and intergenerational considerations to name a few – but we believe that the future of agriculture and forestry innovation in Europe is digital, and requires a vastly increased and improved digital exchange of knowledge between EU regions and Member States, as well as between different agricultural stakeholders: researchers, policymakers, SMEs, advisors, farmers and foresters.
EU-FarmBook platform is the result of two EU-funded Horizon 2020 “sister” projects, EURAKNOS (https://euraknos.eu/) and EUREKA (https://h2020eureka.eu/), which have brought together diverse partners from 28 organizations across 16 countries to work together using a multi-actor approach.
European citizens believe that current animal husbandry practices are too intensive. mEATquality analyses consumer attitudes, perceptions, and preferences regarding sustainable meat production. The husbandry factors that determine ‘extensiveness’ can be applied and optimised in organic, free range and conventional production systems.
With the aim of reducing environmental impacts while addressing societal demands for safe, nutritious and affordable meat and dairy products, PATHWAYS is about identifying and increasing sustainable practices along the supply and production chains of the European livestock sector.
Coordinated by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and comprising 30 partners from 12 countries, this 5-year (2021-2026) €9 million Horizon 2020 project contributes to the EU Farm-to-Fork Strategy which is at the heart of the EU Green Deal.
The agri benchmark Poultry network will focus on the production of broilers, layers (egg production), turkeys, ducks, guinea fowl, geese, quail, pigeons, ostriches and pheasants.
Like the existing agri benchmark networks, agri benchmark Poultry is based on the definition of typical farms. Once typical farms are defined, meaningful comparisons of production costs and competitiveness of poultry farms worldwide can be realized.
Welcome to AKISConnect — a collaborative platform that unites key actors in agriculture and forestry knowledge and innovation across Europe. Whether you’re a researcher, advisor, policymaker or practitioner, this is your gateway to a vibrant network dedicated to driving knowledge and innovation as well as sustainable change.
ATTRACTISS – AcTivate and TRigger ACTors to deepen the function of Innovation Support Services – is a 6-year Horizon Europe funded project, which aims to improve & embed competencies, approaches, instruments & governance models for Member States (MS) AKIS and specifically for Innovation Support Services (ISS) as a crucial AKIS actor. The ISS enables the acceleration of individual grassroots innovative ideas to come to fruition & generate solutions for the transition process to a more sustainable agriculture & forestry sector.
Welcome to AdvisoryAgriHub, a one-stop resource hub aiming to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, enhance knowledge access, and provide tools for advisors to deliver consistent, high-quality guidance across the EU. The AdvisoryAgriHub contains material across five themes, including fertilization (STRATUS), pest management (AdvisoryNetPEST), livestock management (LIVENET), forestry (FORADVISE) and organic farming (OrganicAdviceNetwork).
Adapting agricultural production systems to climate change by adoption of Climate Smart Farming practices and solutions at Demo Events organised at Demo Farms across Europe.
ClimateSmartAdvisors is a pan-European multi-actor network covering 27 countries. Its aim is to boost the EU agricultural advisory community, leading to an acceleration of the adoption of climate smart (CS) farming practices by the wider farming community within and across EU AKISs. To reach this objective, ClimateSmartAdvisors focuses on the crucial role of advisors in the development and dissemination of CS innovations and practices. The project will organize activities focusing on strengthening the advisors’ capacity in providing CS advice and boosting the advisors’ role in the transition towards CS farming through their involvement in innovation projects, CS-AKIS, and EU projects and initiatives.