European Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems towards innovation-driven research in Smart Farming Technology (Smart-AKIS)

Description:

Smart Farming has a real potential to deliver a more productive and sustainable agricultural production, based on a more precise and resource-efficient approach. Smart Farming Technology encompasses Farm Management Information Systems, Precision Agriculture and Agriculture automation and robotics. The Smart-AKIS project aimed to set up a self-sustainable Thematic Network, following a particular format of multi-actor projects promoted by EIP-AGRI and funded by EU’s Horizon 2020 programme on Smart Farming Technology (SFT) for the effective exchange between research, industry, extension and the farming community in order to disseminate direct applicable research and commercial solutions and capture grassroot level needs and innovative ideas. Smart-AKIS collected existing knowledge related to SFT and produced easily accessible end-user material under the EIP-Agri common format, with the objective to:

1. Create an inventory of direct applicable solutions from the large stock of research results and commercial applications.
2. Assess end-user needs and interests, and identify factors influencing adoption taking into account regional/national specificities.
3. Generate multi-actor, innovation-based collaborations among different stakeholders.
4. Set up an ICT tool for the on-line assessment of the Smart Farming Technology solutions and the crowdsourcing of grassroots-level ideas and needs.
5. Liaise with EIP-AGRI and its structures.
6. A Smart Farming Community Platform was developed with the aim to ensure long term accessibility of results.

The Smart Farming Platform, developed in the framework of Smart-AKIS,  is a free platform providing a number of tools for disseminating and making easier the use of Smart Farming technologies, with the aim to ensure long term accessibility of the project results. The Platform is open to farmers, advisory services, agriculture consultants, and farming equipment providers, setting up an open community where these groups can interact. For an overview of the platform, watch this video.

Project information

Lead

GEOPONIKO PANEPISTIMION ATHINON, Greece

Partners

STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH, Netherlands
LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FUER AGRARLANDSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG (ZALF) e.V., Germany
BIOSENSE INSTITUTE - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BIOSYSTEMS, Serbia
Association de Coordination Technique Agricole, France
INSTITUTO NAVARRO DE TECNOLOGIAS E INFRAESTRUCTURAS AGROALIMENTARIAS SA, Spain
Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.V. Germany
DELPHY BV, Netherlands
PROVINCIAL SECRETARIAT OF AGRICULTURE, WATER ECONOMY AND FORESTRY, VOJVODINA, Serbia
INICIATIVAS INNOVADORAS SAL, Spain
COMITE EUROPEEN DES GROUPEMENTS DE CONSTRUCTEURS DU MACHINISME AGRICOLE, Belgium
FEDERATION REGIONALE DES COOPERATIVES D UTILISATION DE MATERIEL AGRICOLE DE L OUEST DE LA France, France
DAVID TINKER & ASSOCIATES LIMITED, United Kingdom
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, Greece

Source of funding

H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy