Project description
A FarmBook to connect farmers and researchers
The EU is one of the world's leading producers and exporters of agricultural products thanks to its varied climate, fertile soil, and the technical skills of its farmers. The EU financially supports its farmers, and encourages sustainable and eco-friendly practices. Since 2014, the EU has invested in a large number of agriculture-based research, innovation, coordination and support actions to improve knowledge flows. The EU-funded Eureka project is building on this by creating an open source e-platform called the FarmBook. Inspired by Facebook, this two-sided platform will connect farmers, foresters, advisors, scientists and policymakers, among others, with 21 multi-actors from 16 member states and 48 organisations. The open-source FarmBook will present knowledge that is easily searchable.
Objective
EUREKA has brought together 21 multi-actors (MA) from 16 member states and 48 supporting organizations, to co-create a stronger and reinforced EU wide agricultural knowledge base by developing an open source e-platform, called the FarmBook. This two-sided market platform, like Facebook, will address the needs and improve the connections between two distinct user groups: MA project partners and MA end users (farmers, foresters, advisors, scientists, policy makers,…). To realize this, EUREKA will first analyze the MA project knowledge supply (outputs, activities, dissemination,…) to get a comprehensive data overview and distinguish do’s and don’ts on how to co-create and transfer knowledge in these projects. From this analysis best practices and recommendations will be formulated into a MA bible for the current MA community and for EIP-AGRI (+ SWG SCAR AKIS) to improve the design of future MA projects. Participatory activities with many MA projects during EUREKA will lay the foundation to build a more engaged MA project community. All available resources that can be used to share amongst the community and to shape and promote the EUREKA outputs will also be mapped. Second, EUREKA will analyze the knowledge demand from potential end users by profiling them and determining their needs, barriers and preferences across four macro-regions in Europe and across the different agricultural sectors. Third, EUREKA will integrate the results of the analysis on the knowledge supply & demand by consulting various expert working groups to co-create a ranking of MA projects and to select the most relevant and high impact agricultural MA project knowledge for the rural and scientific community. Fourth, the FarmBook will be built to present this knowledge in an accessible, standards-based, easily searchable and open source way. Fifth, the FarmBook will be optimized in several iterations with end-user feedback and will be promoted to end users and the MA project community across Europe.
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9000 Gent
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Participants (22)
75012 Paris
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GL7 6JS Cirencester Gloucestershire
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118 55 ATHINA
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1115 Budapest
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48309 Jogeva Alevik
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531 98 LIDKOPING
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82970 Stradario
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505800 Brasov
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5223 DE S Hertogenbosch
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
LT-58343 Kedainiai
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1000 Ljubljana
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10124 Torino
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9000 Gent
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8000 Aarhus C
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2100 Godollo
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47533 Kleve
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15782 Santiago De Compostela
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44939 Nantes
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14000 Caen
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6200 MD Maastricht
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1093 Budapest
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