Focus Groups

Call for Interest: Would you like to contribute to the EIP-AGRI as a temporary consultant for the EIP-AGRI Service Point?

New EIP-AGRI Focus Groups

The topics to be covered by the two new Focus Groups are:

• Non-chemical weed management in arable cropping systems
• Pests and diseases of the olive tree*

Over 130 experts applied for the call which closed on 10 September 2018 23:59 hrs CET (Brussels time). The Focus Group experts have now been selected, please see the Focus Group pages.

For more information on EIP-AGRI Focus Groups and their tasks, please see the Focus Group brochure and EIP-AGRI Focus Group Charter.

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Take a look at the results that have been produced by EIP-AGRI Focus Groups so far in this overview (update October 2018).

EIP-AGRI Focus Groups are temporary groups of selected experts focusing on a specific subject, sharing knowledge and experience

Each group explores practical innovative solutions to problems or opportunities in the field, and draws on experience derived from related useful projects. Each EIP-AGRI Focus Group meets twice and produces a recommendations and outcomes report.

The EIP-AGRI Focus Groups also discuss and document research results, best practices and identify the implications for further research activities that will help to solve practical problems in the sector. These may be related to production, processing, consumption, transport or other issues.

In short, the objectives of an EIP-AGRI Focus Group are:

• Taking stock of the state of the art of practice in the field of the EIP-AGRI Focus Group activity, listing problems and opportunities;

• Taking stock of the state of the art of research in this field, summarising possible solutions to the problems listed;

• Identifying needs from practice and possible directions for further research;

• Highlighting priorities for innovative actions by suggesting potential practical Operational Groups or other project formats to test solutions and opportunities, including ways to disseminate the practical knowledge gathered.

Do you have an idea for an EIP-AGRI Focus Group? Is the topic focused and the question well defined? Then why not suggest a new EIP-AGRI Focus Group topic.