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EU Pig Innovation Group (Eu PiG)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

The European Union (EU) is the world’s second biggest producer of pigmeat and is the market’s largest exporter. In order to maintain an economically viable and sustainable pig industry, innovation is a key factor. EU PiG specifically aims to more effectively connect producers with the latest science, husbandry techniques and technologies from within their industry via fellow producers, academics a ...
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CEreal REnaissance in Rural Europe: embedding diversity in organic and low-input food systems (CERERE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Organic/low input cereal food systems in the EU are emerging in answer to the sustainability crisis of the conventional agri-food sector. “Alternative” systems are based on local, decentralized approaches to production and processing, regard to quality and health, and short supply chains for products with strong local identities. Diversity is deeply embedded in these food systems, from the agro-bi ...
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Short supply chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

SKIN is an ambitious initiative of 20 partners in 14 countries in the area of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs). It intends to systematise and bring knowledge to practitioners, promote collaboration within a demand-driven innovation logic and provide inputs to policymaking through links to the EIP-AGRI. SKIN will build and animate a community of about 500 stakeholders, with the strategic objective ...
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Building an interactive AgriDemo-Hub community: enhancing farmer to farmer learning (AgriDemo-F2F)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The overall aim of AgriDemo-F2F is to enhance peer-to-peer learning within the commercial farming community. The project will utilize the experience of different actors and involve practitioner partners throughout the project to deepen understanding of effective on farm demonstration activities (multi-actor approach). In a first step, we will conduct a geo-referenced inventory of open commercial f ...
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A Europe-wide thematic network supporting a sustainable future for EU dairy farmers (EuroDairy)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

EuroDairy will foster development and dissemination of practice-based innovations in dairy farming on key sustainability issues for the post-quota era. Work Package 1 (Project co-ordination) oversees formation of the Thematic Network, ensures interconnectivity in generation, capture and demonstration of innovation and best practice, and reports project outputs including recommendations for further ...
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Sustainable intensive pig and poultry production (PROHEALTH)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Production diseases compromise health and welfare, generating inefficiencies which impact adversely on profitability, environmental footprint, antibiotic use and product quality.The PROHEALTH project will develop understanding of the multi-factorial dimension of animal pa-thologies linked to the intensification of production and use this to develop, evaluate and disseminate ef-fective control stra ...
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Organic Knowledge Network Arable (OK-Net Arable)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The overall aim of the thematic network ‘OK-Net Arable’ is to improve the exchange of innovative and traditional knowledge among farmers, farm advisers and scientists to increase productivity and quality in organic arable cropping all over Europe, in order to satisfy future market demand. To achieve this, 'OK-Net Arable' has three specific objectives:1) to create a European network of well-functio ...
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Space for Agricultural Innovation (AGRISPIN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

AgriSPIN: creating SPace for INnovationThe project name reflects the overall aim of this project: to strengthen support systems in creating space for innovating farmers. Innovative farmers are everywhere, but their environment determines the rate of success. The project aims to create more space for innovations, through amplifying good examples of innovation support systems and through multi-acto ...
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Green NUTrients RECovery systems (NUTREC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Nutrient recovery from wastewater has been receiving growing interest, driven by stringent nutrient discharge limits from Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) and by the potential for valorization of the recovered nutrients, e.g. for application as fertilizers, which can represent an additional revenue source to WWTP operators. The NUTREC project focuses on the recovery of ammonia (N) and phosphorus ...
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Increasing the efficiency of farming through on open standards based AgroIT platform (AgroIT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Quality, efficiency and transparency of farming are crucial for successful EU economic performance and sustainability of its natural environment. There are 12 million Agricultural holdings in the EU member states and about 40 % of the land area is farmed for crops and livestock. The European Bio-Economy sector has a market size of €1.5 trillion and employs more than 22 million people. This highlig ...
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BİRLİK OLALIM (Tarım Örgütleri Arasındaki Diyaloğun ve Kurumsal Yönetim Kapasitesi ile Personelin Mesleki Becerilerinin Geliştirilmesi)

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2016,

History of agricultural organizations in the EU, though it is based on very old in our country is lacking in this case is much newer and infrastructure. Development of agricultural cooperatives in our country is investing for villages and countryside. Thus, crop production in our village was established businesses in greenhouses and livestock issues. Agricultural development cooperatives, the real ...
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Innovative and sustainable systems combining automatic milking and precision grazing (AUTOGRASSMILK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

AUTOGRASSMILK is a unique cooperation of SME associations representing close to 100,000 SME’s in Ireland, Denmark, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Sweden and the core agricultural RTD’s of these countries. AUTOGRASSMILK will analyze, develop, experiment and disseminate concepts for integrating grazing and automatic milking (AM) for dairy farms. By using a network of RTD’s, advisory connected ...
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Improvement of comprehensive bio-waste transformation and nutrient recovery treatment processes for production of combined natural products (REFERTIL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The objective driven goal of this SME targeted project is to improve the currently used compost and biochar treatment systems, towards advanced, efficient and comprehensive bio-waste treatment and nutrient recovery process with zero emission performance. The improved output products are safe, economical, ecological and standardized compost and bio-char combined natural fertilizers and soil amendme ...
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Prospects for Farmers’ Support: Advisory Services in European AKIS (PRO AKIS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

European farmers need topical knowledge, training and support to remain competitive and respond to manifold demands in a continuously evolving environment. Functioning agricultural knowledge and information systems (AKIS) are needed to tackle challenges like (i) giving small-scale farmers access to relevant and reliable knowledge, (ii) bridging scientific research topics and farmers’ demands and ( ...
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