EIP-AGRI Workshop on Data Sharing: Final report

The EIP-AGRI workshop on Data Sharing in agriculture (Bratislava, April 4-5, 2017) brought together about 80 stakeholder representatives who brainstormed on existing or potential arrangements, frameworks and pathways to enable effective, fair and valuable access to (and reuse of) agricultural data. This report provides an overall reflection of the workshop experience. More specifically, it briefly touches upon three key issues that were raised during the workshop: Which are the right questions to ask, before sharing data (industry or personal) via a specific platform or service? Can we develop a list of recommended good practices to enable and facilitate fair data sharing in agriculture? What is the role of the European Commission in creating conditions for the data economy in agriculture to develop in a way that will benefit all the stakeholders involved equally and fairly? The report provides an outline of what was learnt during the workshop and some thoughts about how this important dialogue may be continued and enriched.