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Project overview
Precision Farming Ecosystem for Digital Skills enhancement across CE, to support digitalisation, sustainability and specialisation of Agri food manufacturing SMEs in Precision Farming transition
Farmers and food companies are slower in adopting digital technologies in comparison to other sectors. It is therefore necessary to make farms and food industries aware of digitalisation advantages and benefits, in particular by providing them with success stories and testing with them how a technology can concretely be useful. The AGRI-DIGITAL GROWTH project introduces central European farmers and food companies to precision and digital farming trends through training programmes and a new knowledge-transfer ecosystem. Concretely, the partners establish five living labs to stimulate informal peer-to-peer exchanges on practical experiences and fieldwork among all relevant stakeholders.
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2,33m €
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Project Budget
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80%
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of the Budget is funded by ERDF
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7
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Countries
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9
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Regions
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11
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Partners
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5
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Pilots
Duration
Start date
End date
Project progress
Project partnership
Project partners
Lead partner
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics
Viticulture Oenology
Project partner
Address
Rottenhauser Straße 1 3250 Wieselburg
Country
Austria (AT) Web
https://www.josephinum.at/forschung-und-pruefung/agrartechnik.html
Total partner budget
260,000 €
Sensors and Communication
Total partner budget
204,000 €
Professional School
Total partner budget
225,000 €
Total partner budget
232,000 €
Total partner budget
211,450 €
Total partner budget
202,600 €
Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Total partner budget
199,800 €
Institute for Viticulture and Oenology
Total partner budget
176,000 €
Department of Energy, Power Engineering and Environment
Address
Ivana Lucica 5 10002 Zagreb
Country
Croatia (HR) Web
https://www.fsb.unizg.hr/index.php?fsbonline
Total partner budget
162,700 €
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Total partner budget
162,000 €
Roadmap
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Challenges for Agriculture in Central Europe
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Our objectives
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Precision Farming Knowledge Transfer Ecosystem
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Transnational Pilot Courses
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Living Labs
News
Events
Pilot actions
Outputs
1.1 Precision Farming Knowledge transfer Ecosystem
Within the project Agri-Digital Growth, project partners aim to identify
and map stakeholders within the regions of the Interreg Central Europe programme who are
actively engaged in advancing digitalisation, promoting sustainabile practices, producing
machineries in the primary sector and its related value chain.
The Ecosystem is a network that will bring benefits to its members:
1. Stakeholders receive targeted training in the areas relevant to them;
2. Cooperation between companies, exchange of knowledge and its transfer from theory to practice;
3. Exchange of best practices and mutual support:
3.a support farmers and advisors in upskilling their digital knowledge and and exploitating
the potential of precision farming.
3.b support agricultural manifacturers in developing new solution for precision agriculture and its integration on the device or equipment.
Type of output: Strategies and action plans
In development
1.2 5 Precision Farming pilot courses for SMEs digitalisation and specialisation
5 pilot courses validated by target users and delivered on the 28Digital platform to transfer hard digital skills to future Precision Farming Specialists and SMEs. The courses cover Precision Farming Basics, Precision Viticulture, Data Processing and AI, Precision Arable Agriculture and Robotics Applied to Agriculture.
Type of output: Solutions
2.1 5 Transnational living labs to stimulate digital knowledge transfer and cooperation between SME, talents and R&D centers
Five transnational living labs brought together project partners, SMEs, talents and R&D centers to validate the Precision Farming Specialist as a driver of innovation and renovation for SMEs. The living labs put new knowledge into practice and favoured peer to peer interaction and experience exchange between actors of the value chain. Each living lab involved at least one project partner, one SME and one talent and activated a collaboration on one of the domains covered by the pilot courses.
Type of output: Solutions
3.1 Regional Action Plans to support Regional specialisation and digitalisation of SMEs across Central Europe
Nine regional action plans will support the regional specialisation of the value chain connected to agriculture across Central Europe. The plans draw on transnational workshops that involve S3 managers and on the experience gathered throughout the project. They aim to favour the re-skilling of Central Europe SMEs workers, promote digitalisation and sustain the competitiveness of the sector.
The project facilitates participatory dialogue with S3 managers and associated partners to ensure the successful deployment of the action plans in the seven target regions. The approach ensures that the action plans meet the specific needs and priorities of each region and align with the overarching goals of the project.
Type of output: Strategies and action plans
In development
Overview of the Skills of Precision Farming Specialist
The Precision Farming Specialist profile was developed through a collaborative effort among project partners from Central Europe. The work started from the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and the National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) of participating countries.
The Precision Farming Specialist is a multidisciplinary profile that requires foundational knowledge across various fields and is tailored to the operational context.
Agri-Digital Growth synthesised the profile according to skills, competences, performance indicators and expected results.
Type of output: Strategies and action plans
Transnational Workshop involving the Quadruple Helix
On 7 November 2024, in the framework of the EIMA International Fair in Bologna, Italy, Agri-Digital Growth held a workshop to promote transnational collaboration and policy alignment. The workshop brought together key stakeholders from different regions and quadruple helix levels to discuss common challenges and opportunities related to Precision Farming.
Discussions focused on the strengths of each Central Europe region and how they could create a competitive advantage in the PF industry. The workshop also provided an opportunity to contribute to the realization and update of Regional Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization in the regions of Central Europe.
Type of output: Strategies and action plans
Project videos
Project documents
AGRI-DIGITAL GROWTH at EIMA Agenda 7 November 2024
Pre-Hackathon Webinar 15.01.2025
Our Roadmap (Downloadable Version)
FederUnacoma - Webinar (28.02.2025)
24.03.2025 ADG Federunacoma Associates
The presentation that was shown to the participants of the ADG webinar
Project images
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