Electronic data generation, analytics and communication technologies potentially enable more accurate, faster and better decision-making on farms, with huge potential to improve agricultural sustainability. There is a major focus on digitisation by EU and national/regional policy-makers to ensure that digital innovation in agriculture keeps pace with other sectors and the benefits of digitisation are available to the wider farming community. However, there is a danger that digitisation and future innovations will be hampered unless the rural advisory community is mobilised to take ownership of digital tools and to advocate at the user interface. This CSA will engage, enable and empower the independent farm advisor community, through sharing of tools, expertise and motivations. FAIRshare has two main programmes. Firstly, WPs 1, 2 and 3 will gather an evidence base of the digital tools and services used internationally, leveraging the social networks of partner institutions that span EU and non-EU countries. The inventory of tools will be accessible to end-users on an intuitively navigable online interface that has been co-designed using a multi-actor approach. Accompanying the tools in the online inventory will be information, for instance short ‘good practice’ vignettes, on how the tools may be used/adapted for use. Secondly, WPs 4, 5 and 6 will generate and resource a participatory ‘living laboratory’, empowering advisor peers from across the EU to interact with the online inventory and, in a series of workshops, to exchange, co-adapt, co-design and apply digital tools. The FAIRshare 'living lab’ will enable advisors to address challenges to embedding digital tools in different advisory and farming contexts across the EU. Special focus will be on co-designing powerful communication and engagement approaches for advisors to advocate and inspire their peers and farmer clients, driving a social movement for the wider and better use of digital tools.

"CONTEXTUnder the Europe 2020 Strategy, Growth and employment in rural areas, food security and climate change are the challenges facing the response of the new agricultural reform in the EU. An adequate response to these challenges represents a third revolution in the sector, which is already in progress in agriculture and requires the appropriate means. In Indeed, these are digital media, robotics, that affect remote management and improve surveillance and early warning, also represent an employment opportunity for qualified young people in these subjects.Smart Farming was accepted as a method to improve livelihoods and sustainability, but there is a need for a change in practice and in mindset among farmers to bring this about; requires bringing together advisory services; stimulates Networking and Cooperation. New technologies can be transformative, but there is a need to make these more widely known, including practical examples of their use and application.SFATE partners have decided to work together approximating innovation to rural actors, and especially the youngest who are more familiar with digital and technologies tools.PARTNERSCoordinator: Consellería de Educación, Universidade e Formación ProfesionalFederación EFA Galicia - VETUSC - (Escola Politécnica Superior - Lugo) - UniversityAssociation des Chambres d'Agriculture de l'Arc Atlantique(Francia) - Agricultural ChamberPhilipps Universitaet Marburg (Alemaña)-UniversityBiotehniski center Naklo (Eslovenia) - VET ACTIVITIESThe core of the project consists of 8 activities addressed to get the foreseen results:A1 INVENTORY OF EXISTING PRACTICES. Identify existing practices of smart farming, collecting all the information concernedA2 EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCES IDENTIFIED. Analysis of technologies, processes, human resourcesA3 ADAPTATION OF CONTENTS to be presented in a virtual source called ""Smart Farming Portal""A4 Study ""New Jobs and Farm Innovation"". Analyze the existing practices on smart farm focused on an employment perspectiveA5 DESIGN THE SMART FARMING PORTALA6 TESTING the functioning of the SFATE PORTALA7 ANALYSIS OF TESTING RESULTS AND FEED-BACKA8 TRAINING for usersOBJECTIVESTo increase knowledge and the acquisition of smart farming skills in VET CentersTo identify new employment opportunities regarding smart farmingTo spread knowledge on smart farming to the general public in order to generate attractiveness to rural areasTARGET GROUP: Teachers, trainers, advisers, entrepreneurship advisors, students, farmers, and young people in general but also those who are not from agricultural areas.RESULTS_Output 11 Smart Farming Portal (web sfate.eu) It is the intellectual product of the SFATE project which is aimed at making a review and inventory of the available intelligent agricultural technologies, the employment opportunities associated with them and the didactic resources available to acquire the necessary skills to access these new employment opportunities. Students in the subject area of agriculture, teachers, advisors, farmers and other agents from all over Europe benefit from the portal. SFATE PORTAL incorporates a USER'S GUIDE for easy browsing.2 Study reportIt aims to analyse the information gathered in the SFATE project in order to provide guidance to farmers, students and teachers in the agricultural or forestry branch, advisors and other relevant actors on the potentialities of intelligent agriculture, the skills needed to incorporate these technologies into current agricultural practices, the employment opportunities offered by intelligent agriculture, and the adaptation of training programmes in agriculture and forestry sciences to facilitate access to these employment opportunities. Intelligent agriculture can respond to the main challenges of European agriculture and forestry that are summarised below: Increasing EU food security, Promoting growth and jobs in rural areas, Addressing environmental and climate change challenges. 3 Didactic GuideIt proposes how the Smart Farming portal can be incorporated as a didactic tool in the basic, intermediate and upper-level vocational training cycles of the agricultural and forestry professional families. The Guide indicates the professional modules, also associated with some unit of competence, in which the SFATE portal can develop new skills in students focused on training specialization and new job opportunities within the primary sector.The guide describes practical cases of implementation IMPACTS AND BENEFITSTo increase skills on smart farming of Teachers, trainers, advisors, students and farmersTo improve the CURRICULA OF THE VET CENTERSTo have a new tool for vocational trainingTo offer a wider VET base on smart farmingTo increase attractivity of rural areas to young people and general publicTo increase the knowledge on new employment opportunities in rural areas base on smart farming"

The objective of thERBN is to put into operation an EU-wide multi-actor (MA) thematic network (TN) for knowledge sharing on innovative solutions for sustainable circular bioeconomy (CB) applicable by small farms and foresters (practitioners) at a local scale in rural areas. Such a framework will contribute to empowering practitioners (PPs) solving the gap between available and viable CB solutions and the problems they face in their everyday. Starting from their most urgent needs on the management and use of biological by-products and residues, thERBN will identify existing solutions from grassroots from PPs, innovations developed by Operational Groups (OGs) and research applied results from national and EU projects, to produce practice-oriented easily understandable materials to be shared in national and EU demo days and training and through channels most consulted by PPs. thERBN TN will assure open access to long-term digital structures like EU-Farmbook, and EU-CAP Network, complemented by the thERBN platform to facilitate multilanguage access and a social environment to interact among and integrate CB-interested OGs, TNs & project communities, thus enhancing the cross-border dimensions and effects of thERBN TN, and reducing the fragmentation in knowledge and innovation. The MA thERBN TN will connect with the key actors (researchers, advisors, innovation brokers) and structures (national and regional AKIS, extension services, advisors networks) necessary to encompass the transition of small rural farms and foresters towards climate neutrality and more sustainable and resilient operation. Bottom-up MA-based dialogue will yield evidence on the current PPs' needs, the remaining gaps for CB solutions that new innovative products and services can cover, and policy briefs proposing policies or instruments to support the adoption of small-scaled CB solutions by small farms.

The overall aim of AgriDemo-F2F is to enhance peer-to-peer learning within the commercial farming community. The project will utilize the experience of different actors and involve practitioner partners throughout the project to deepen understanding of effective on farm demonstration activities (multi-actor approach). In a first step, we will conduct a geo-referenced inventory of open commercial farms that engage in demonstration activities in Europe, detailing the sectors, themes and topics on which they provide expertise, and describe the mediation techniques they apply. Case studies will be selected to perform an in-depth comparative analysis. Important dimensions in selection are: 1) a wide-spread geo-graphical coverage within Europe, 2) representative for EU-agricultural sectors, systems and territories and 3) low tech versus high tech in mediation techniques. Case studies will be described, analysed and compared on 1) their network structure (actors, roles and governance characteristics), and 2) the mechanisms and tools used for recruitment, interaction and learning. Furthermore, effectiveness of the different approaches within the case-studies will be assessed through an evaluation of the extent and nature of learning. Both regional and international multi-actor meetings will use the results of the cross comparative case study analysis to i) identify a set of best practical approaches for both the on farm demonstration of research results (science driven) and the spreading of best farming practices among practitioners (innovation driven) and ii) recommendations for AKIS governance and policies on how to support effective on farm demonstration activities. The empowerment of both the commercial farming and policy community to uptake these best practices will occur through structuring the project results and farm demo showcases on the AgriDemo-Hub, an interactive, user oriented, web-map application.

The overall goal of SCALE-UP is to support regional multi-actor partnerships, consisting of private businesses, governments and policymakers, civil society organisations, and researchers in identifying and scaling-up innovative and sustainable bio-based value chains that build on regional resources. Through its approach, SCALE-UP will adapt, implement and evaluate tools to help regional actors to overcome the apparent bottlenecks towards fully exploiting bioeconomy potentials in their region. A four phase methodology will: i) establish existing knowledge and set the stage for further research, as well as creating six regional platforms with local stakeholders; ii) facilitate cross-regional transfer of knowledge and demand-driven capacity building, and provide support to multi-actor partnerships to carry out market assessments and business model designs; iii) create a pan-European ‘Community of Practice’ to facilitate sharing good practices and lessons learned across European regions; and iv) disseminate and exploit project results in collaboration with key stakeholders. In addition to the focus on increasing capacity and knowledge on the bioeconomy among relevant actors in the regions, a key feature of SCALE-UP is the business development programme to be applied by the local communities. With an emphasis on the principles of co-creation, transparency and open innovation, the project will provide advisory support to innovators and regional stakeholders to assess market conditions, elaborate business plans and identify compatible funding sources for 12 bio-based solutions.