Project description
Irrigation systems to increase agriculture’s drought resiliences
Innovative irrigation systems offer promising solutions for both water abundance and scarcity in agriculture, yet they continue to face substantial challenges. The EU-funded GEORGIA project will assess these systems, with a focus on the sustainable recycling of sewage sludge and biowaste, the use of biological water-absorbing geocomposites and enhanced water management practices in agriculture. The project will develop technologies such as in situ monitoring, drone-based assessments and an explainable AI decision support system, starting at the farm level and expanding to larger regions. Seven pilot studies will be conducted across six countries, covering a variety of crops and farming types, including both conventional and organic systems. The project will collect sensor data from farms spanning southern to north-eastern Europe, engaging over 1 200 farmers.
Objective
GEORGIA (Green dEal cOmpliant iRriGation Increasing Europe’s Agriculture resilience to drought) consortium, consisting of 16 partners from 9 European countries and led by Synelixis SA (the provider of SynField smart agriculture platform), has joined forces to increasing the resilience of agriculture to drought enhancing efficiency in water management.
The project assesses drivers and barriers of key innovative irrigation systems, including environmentally responsible recycling of sewage sludge and biowaste streams, biological water-absorbing geocomposites, as well as water abundance and scarcity solutions. In parallel, GEORGIA pursues their optimal application through local condition modeling and employment of Artificial Intelligence.
To this end, the partners develop in-situ, drone-based and geospatial monitoring, an eXplainable-AI decision support system as well as Crop Digital Twins. GEORGIA enhances and validates these technologies starting from the farm level and upscaling at large-scale and catchment levels.
The socio-techno-economic approach is validated in 7 pilots in 6 countries, connected through a Federated Deep Machine Learning architecture. GEORGIA covers multiple crops, production types (conventional, intensive, agroecology and organic) and geographical regions, namely a) Mediterranean (Greece, Cyprus), b) Southeast Europe-Balkans (Bulgaria, Serbia) c) Central Europe-Midland (Austria), and d) Continental Europe-Baltic Sea (Poland). We will be able to collect and process sensor data from farms that span from the Southern to Northeast Europe, along with organic and non-organic production. We will also have access to large facilities such as Biological Cleaning Plant at BSL 3 covering large private farms, a Greek island (Santorini) and a Greek Region.
More than 1,200 farmers will be directly involved in the experimentation phase, providing insights and feedback on AgriDataSpace platform and knowledge provided and more than 89,000 farmers will be dire
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering natural resources management water management
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2024-CLIMATE-01
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Greece
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