Project description
Enhancing agriculture’s resilience with GenAI in Africa
African societies face significant challenges as climate change increases pressure on rural communities and agricultural systems. The EU-funded BRIDGE-AI project is helping African communities strengthen agricultural resilience and digital skills through trustworthy and explainable Generative AI (GenAI). It is designing innovative AI solutions for climate-smart agriculture and digital skills development in rural Kenya, Nigeria and Tunisia. It will empower women in agriculture and promote collaboration between the EU and the African Union. Key initiatives focus on improving mushroom and pomegranate cultivation, maize production and pasture prediction to address challenges such as drought and climate change through trustworthy and context-specific GenAI solutions. Training for stakeholders will be provided through living labs and workshops to strengthen the business ecosystem and ensure sustainability beyond the project’s duration.
Objective
BRIDGE-AI aims to improve African societies by integrating GenAI-based solutions into agricultural optimization and digital skills acquisition in rural areas of Kenya, Tunisia, and Nigeria. In addition, the project seeks to strengthen the role of women, whose participation is already significant but who remain underrepresented in certain roles.
BRIDGE-AI adopts a collaborative approach between the EU and AU, through a diverse consortium made up of seven organizations: three European and four African, including SMEs, startups, universities, and research centers. The partners have prior experience in agricultural optimization projects and in learning activities.
The project builds on research developed by European partners around the design of agent-based systems powered by GenAI, compatible with open standards such as NGSI-LD and widely industry-validated Open Source platforms such as the Context Broker. The main innovation of BRIDGE-AI lies in the integration of GenAI into these technological environments, with a special focus on the development of digital twins.
Four case studies will be developed to improve mushroom cultivation in microclimates, maize production, pasture prediction, and pomegranate cultivation. These initiatives will address key challenges such as droughts, deficiencies in irrigation infrastructure, and the effects of climate change.
BRIDGE-AI will train all stakeholders involved in GenAI. Living labs, workshops, and training programs will be promoted with the aim of strengthening the African business ecosystem.
BRIDGE-AI seeks continuity beyond the project’s duration; therefore, it builds on agent-based platforms developed in previous European initiatives, adaptable to new technologies that may emerge during and after the project (a key aspect in AI today). Furthermore, the solution’s architecture is use-case agnostic, which facilitates its future application to other sectors and regions across the African continent.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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HORIZON.2.4.3 - Emerging enabling technologies
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HORIZON.2.4.5 - Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2025-04
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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