Agri-Innovation Summit 2017

The Agri-Innovation Summit 2017 (AIS 2017) took place in Oeiras, Portugal on 11 and 12 October 2017. The event gathered a diversified audience of over 500 people, including farmers, advisers, researchers, NGOs, RDP managing authorities, NRNs, LEADER Local Action Groups (LAGs), rural businesses and start-ups. It aimed to:

• promote cross-fertilisation between multi-actor innovation initiatives
• raise awareness about innovation and digitisation opportunities for agriculture
• provide input for EU innovation policies for agriculture and rural areas after 2020

For more information on the event, visit the AIS website.

The main outcomes of the 4 EIP-AGRI break-out sessions have now been published:

• Factsheet 'Digital opportunities for primary production'
• Factsheet 'Digital opportunities for agricultural value chains'
• Factsheet 'Strengthening links between research & practice in the agri-food sector'
• Factsheet 'Skills development: Education & training, advice, peer to peer exchange, and networking'

• Find more details in the final report

Poster sessions: 119 innovation projects

A catalogue listing 119 innovation projects (including Operational Groups) from the AIS poster sessions can be downloaded through this link or on the AIS website. The projects fall into the following categories:

• Resource use (adaptation and mitigation)
  • Resource efficiency / water and energy / circular economy / fertilization
  • Agro-environment and climate change
  • Genetic resources / climate change adaptation
  • Plant protection / animal health and welfare
• Management of farming, food and forestry systems & valorization of the territory
  • Agriculture products and food processing
  • Forest management and fire prevention
  • Valorization of the territory and use of endogenous resources
  • Sustainable management
• Agriculture 4.0 and rural development
  • Digital entrepreneurship in rural areas
  • Precision farming
  • Management tools to support farmers' decision-making
  • Robotics / mechanization

Presentations, pictures, videos, and other relevant background documents can be found on the AIS website.

Presentations EIP-AGRI breakout sessions (in order of the programme)

Digitizing rural economies (Thursday 12 October)

Digital opportunities for primary production

• EU policy and funding instruments supporting farm digitisation, Ana Cuadrado, DG AGRI, European Commission
• Mark Gibson, Teagasc, Ireland
• Andreas Jende, Aqua C+, Germany

​Factsheet with the main outcomes from the session 'Digital opportunities for primary production'

Digital opportunities for agricultural value chains

• EU policy and funding instruments supporting farm digitisation, Louis Mahy, DG AGRI, European Commission

• The Internet of Food and Farm, George Beers, IOF 2020, The Netherlands
• Capitalising the full potential of on-line collaboration for SMEs innovation support in the Agri-Food ecosystem, Kostas Giagtzoglou, Inno4AgriFood, Greece

Factsheet with the main outcomes from the session 'Digital opportunities for agricultural value chains'

Innovation - Shaping the future (Thursday 12 October)

Strengthening links between research and practice in the agri-food sector

• Winter harvest - Seasonal, energy-extensive and innovative production, Alexandra Depisch, Winter Harvest Operational Group, Austria  

• Knowledge networks: How to optimize and value existing knowledge and know-how across Europe?, Eric Serrano, WINETWORK
• EIP-AGRI - Bridging research and practice, Fabio Cossu, DG AGRI, European Commission

Factsheet with the main outcomes from the session 'Strengthening links between research and practice in the agri-food sector'

Skills development: Education & training, advice, peer to peer exchange and networking

• 'Skills development: education & training, advice, peer to peer exchange and networking' EU action in a nutshell, Alexia Rouby, DG AGRI, European Commission

• Future of advisory services and education systems in an evolving AKIS, Anikó Juhász, Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Hungary
• Peer to peer learning in stimulating innovations - The AgriSpin discovery journey, Eelke Wielinga, AgriSpin, The Netherlands

Factsheet with the main outcomes from the session 'Skills development: Education & training, advice, peer to peer exchange, and networking'

Related content

• SCAR-AKIS policy brief on Agricultural education systems
• SCAR-AKIS policy brief on the Future of advisory services

Pictures

A selection of pictures from the EIP-AGRI breakout sessions is available through this link.