Agricultural experts, researchers and technology providers gathered in Klatovy (Czech Republic) to discuss how digital tools, education and advisory services can better support everyday farming practices.
The meeting, held on 3 March 2026 at Úhlava, o.p.s., was organised within the Plan4all Living Lab of Agri-Digital Growth. Participants, including representatives of WirelessInfo, České centrum pro vědu a společnost and Lesprojekt-služby, discussed how technologies developed in research projects can find practical application in everyday farming.
Several digital tools currently under development for agriculture were presented during the meeting. Among them were monitoring systems based on sensors and field data, as well as the Info4Agro platform, which provides farmers with access to climate records, satellite imagery and other datasets useful for managing crops and fields, datasets also available at national level through the ALIANCE project platform.
The meeting also included the presentation of two tools developed within the PoliRuralPlus initiative: JackDaw – a GeoAI assistant that connects language models with geospatial and satellite data, demonstrated through natural-language queries on field conditions and recent environmental trends – and the concept of a Czech-Bavarian Agricultural Innovation Hub in Klatovy, a cross-border platform designed to connect innovation activities with the practical needs of agriculture in the region.
Education also emerged as a central theme of the discussion, particularly in relation to the new professional qualifications in precision farming recently introduced within the Czech National Qualifications System, whose corresponding courses – starting in March 2026 – will be offered through the eduAgrihub platform developed in cooperation with Mendel University in Brno.
The programme concluded with an open discussion with farmers, an essential moment of exchange from which it became evident that the value of digital innovation lies in its ability to support concrete decisions in everyday agricultural practice, a perspective fully aligned with the work carried out within Agri-Digital Growth, where strengthening competences in precision agriculture contributes to the competitiveness of the sector at both regional and European level.