Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Digi4Live (Supporting the potentials of digital, data-driven solutions for livestock tracking)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2024-01-01 do 2025-06-30
The livestock sector must urgently improve sustainability by enhancing environmental performance, animal health and welfare, food security, and fair economic returns, while reducing nutrient losses and antimicrobial use by 2030. Digital technologies can support this transition, but progress is limited by high costs, poor standardisation, fragmented data, restrictive sharing rules, and privacy concerns. Currently, data is fragmented across farmers, authorities, and other actors, often requiring repeated manual input into multiple systems.
New EU policies, such as the Data Act, are changing this landscape by enabling better reuse of data and encouraging data sharing services and voluntary data altruism. This creates new opportunities to use digital tools, tracking, and tracing technologies to advance research, governance, and innovation in livestock systems.
Digi4Live builds on this momentum. Digi4Live is a 4.5 years Horizon Europe coordination and support action. By using a strong multi-actor and co-creation approach that brings together livestock sector actors from science to industries and competent authorities, and engages them in the co-creation of digital and data concepts, Digi4Live enables greater use of current and new data and digital technologies in livestock tracking. Six case studies contribute to shaping Digi4Live’s Key Exploitable Results by focusing on:
A) the generation of datasets in animal health and welfare,
B) enhancing value chain resilience and transparency,
C) developing robust artificial intelligence methods for sensor-based animal tracking,
D) integrating different technologies and data, including animal breeding,
E) making use of data digitalization for environmental impact assessment, and
F) investigating digital solutions in policy, impact monitoring and public administration across the EU member states.
New EU policies, such as the Data Act, are changing this landscape by enabling better reuse of data and encouraging data sharing services and voluntary data altruism. This creates new opportunities to use digital tools, tracking, and tracing technologies to advance research, governance, and innovation in livestock systems.
Digi4Live builds on this momentum. Digi4Live is a 4.5 years Horizon Europe coordination and support action. By using a strong multi-actor and co-creation approach that brings together livestock sector actors from science to industries and competent authorities, and engages them in the co-creation of digital and data concepts, Digi4Live enables greater use of current and new data and digital technologies in livestock tracking. Six case studies contribute to shaping Digi4Live’s Key Exploitable Results by focusing on:
A) the generation of datasets in animal health and welfare,
B) enhancing value chain resilience and transparency,
C) developing robust artificial intelligence methods for sensor-based animal tracking,
D) integrating different technologies and data, including animal breeding,
E) making use of data digitalization for environmental impact assessment, and
F) investigating digital solutions in policy, impact monitoring and public administration across the EU member states.
During the first 18 months of the project, the partners have already developed one Key Exploitable Result (KER), named the “Digi4Live DataSet-an inventory of livestock tracking” (https://digi4live.eu/digi4live-inventory/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). The inventory enables early engagement and provides actors with the opportunity to learn about 378 industry products, applications, datasets and projects related to livestock tracking, as well as to interact with the service, adding value and facilitating knowledge exchange.
Digi4Live has carried out extensive dissemination, communication and stakeholder engagement activities. The stakeholder inventory currently covers 599 actors, and four Thematic Expert Panels have been established (https://digi4live.eu/tep/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). Collaboration has been launched with several EU projects, including the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Farmtopia project, as well as the release of joint press statements with the STEP UP project.
By Month 18, Digi4Live has organised or been part of: 2 workshops, 13 showcase events, and 3 webinars (https://digi4live.eu/webinar/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) focused on case studies and practical applications of database solutions for livestock tracking, collectively reaching more than 5,000 participants.
The project has also produced 3 newsletters, 20+ blog posts, and 3 project videos, while several social media posts have exceeded 1,000 impressions. The joint social media audience exceeds 700 followers, and newsletters have reached over 800 subscribers, further reinforcing the project’s visibility and outreach.
Digi4Live has carried out extensive dissemination, communication and stakeholder engagement activities. The stakeholder inventory currently covers 599 actors, and four Thematic Expert Panels have been established (https://digi4live.eu/tep/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). Collaboration has been launched with several EU projects, including the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Farmtopia project, as well as the release of joint press statements with the STEP UP project.
By Month 18, Digi4Live has organised or been part of: 2 workshops, 13 showcase events, and 3 webinars (https://digi4live.eu/webinar/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) focused on case studies and practical applications of database solutions for livestock tracking, collectively reaching more than 5,000 participants.
The project has also produced 3 newsletters, 20+ blog posts, and 3 project videos, while several social media posts have exceeded 1,000 impressions. The joint social media audience exceeds 700 followers, and newsletters have reached over 800 subscribers, further reinforcing the project’s visibility and outreach.
The ambition of Digi4Live is to enable a wider development and exploitation of digital technologies and existing, repurposed and new data from multiple sources for all main livestock species (pigs, poultry, cattle) representing over 35% of the value of output of EU agriculture. The aim is very ambitious: Integrating data from multiple sources in a robust manner is methodologically, technically and ethically extremely challenging task. As a coordination and support action, Digi4Live is designed to bridge the gaps within & between R&I and industry cooperation through measures that enable better standardisation, dissemination, awareness-raising, communication and networking, policy dialogue, mutual learning and case studies relating to livestock data and digital technologies. Digi4Live will engage key actors, bring them together and make use of synergies and collaboration. Such an integrated approach can really make a difference in livestock evaluation and tracking and enable much better the use of big data for the benefit of science, policy and business.