• Welcome address by George Beers, Project Coordinator
• Welcome speech by the Romanian Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Adrian Oros Nechita
• Presentations  by MEP Siegfried Muresan and MEP Dacian Ciolos
• Presentation by a representative of the European Commission
• SmartAgriHubs achievements in the first year

This session will focus on the sectors of SmartAgriHubs and IoF2020, allowing participants from other Horizon2020 projects to interact and create synergy based on common interests and sectors.

During an hour and a half, participants can attend workshops, panel discussions, bilateral meetings/matchmaking/pitches etc.

The SmartAgriHubs and IoF2020 Sectors are:

Arable, Fruits, Vegetables, Animal Production, Meat, Dairy and Aquaculture.

This session will distribute participants in groups according to the 9 Regional Clusters of SmartAgriHubs. The objective is to strengthen the relationship and create connections between stakeholders from the same country/region from the different EU countries.

During an hour and a half, participants can attend workshops, panel discussions, bilateral meetings/matchmaking/pitches etc.

TOPICS:

Imagining the data sharing future; discussion of results from workshops with stakeholders across the EU’

The aim of this workshop will be to present and discuss the results of the stakeholder workshops about the future of farm data sharing.

Showcasing your Competence Center: Welcome to the Agricultural technolgy navigator

In this workshop, Competence Centers will see how they can register their solutions in the SmartAgriHub Agricultural Technology Navigator. Farmers, DIHs, investors, cooperatives, tech companies and others interested parties/stakeholders will be able to find the technologies they need and see what you have to offer in the growing community of SmartAgriHubs Competence Centers. As well, best practices for Competence Centres, collaboration and demo activities to amplify impact will be discussed.

Meet Nefertiti and join the FarmDemo network

The aim is to be connected to 10 European networks dealing with agricultural issues, learn about on-farm demonstrations & demo experiences, find the demo farm and innovation actors that can complement your activities

SmartChain

SMARTCHAIN session will provide all participants an overview of the successful implementation of this multi-actor approach project with 43 partners from 11 different countries. The project has the ambition to further support the development of collaborative short food supply chains and promote a more favourable framework for sustainable, local, healthier and ethically produced food in Europe. As a best practice, to strengthen co-creation and collaboration between partners and ensure double-directional flow of information between research and practice within the SMARTCHAIN consortium, 9 Innovation and Collaboration Hubs have been established in France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Serbia, Spain and Switzerland. The establishment of these national innovation hubs leads to a permanent association of stakeholders at national level, working on the improvement of short food supply efficiency for the economic growth of the sector for the benefits of European farmers and citizens.

Capacity Building for DIHs

The aim of this workshop will be to exchange ideas on the whole capacity building process with the DIHs and RCs with a solution driven approach to encourage synergy between all the levels of the SmartAgriHubs project.

IoF2020 Pathway towards Interoperability: Exploitation and contribution to standards and open data models

The project IoF2020 has been developing work to enable open and competitive farm management information systems and vertical smart farming solutions. This system of systems approach is centered on the ability to share data among the actors of the value chain, enabling modularity, re-usability and interoperability. IoF2020 has focused on exploiting existing standards and de-facto initiatives and working on open data models, while trying to identify possible standardization contributions.
To realize the SoS vision, shared, well-adopted information models provide an essential element in the common technical ground for standards-based innovation, by making replicability and portability of smart-agri-food solutions practical.
The IoF2020 Lab is an infrastructure , offering key components to enable this system-of-systems approach, including FIWARE generic enablers, data model fragments and a data marketplace, among others.
This workshop presents common work developed by the FIWARE Foundation and AgGateway, in the scope of the IoF2020 project, towards the development of shared data models for the agri-food domain.

Building joint tools for sustainable digital agri businesses

Having a pan-European perspective of the digital services portfolio is important for the digital transformation of the agrifood sector. Creating multipliers, monitoring your network, increasing connections between DIHs but also amongst all actors involved in this process, are all essential for generating added value and consolidate networks that boost the digitalisation of the agrifood sector. This workshop aims to show how SmartAgriHubs intends to contribute to this with the design of a so-called “DIH Observatory”. Participants’ feedback is welcomed at this brainstorming session in order to maximise the success of this tool.

This session will focus on the sectors of SmartAgriHubs and IoF2020, allowing participants from the other Horizon 2020 projects to interact and create synergy based on common interests and sectors.

During an hour, all participants can attend workshops, panel discussions, bilateral meetings/matchmaking/pitches etc.

The SmartAgriHubs and IoF2020 Sectors are:

Arable, Fruit, Vegetables, Animal Production, Meat, Dairy, and Aquaculture

TOPICS:

Ethical aspects of your IOT product; an explorative card game

The aim of this workshop will be to present and try out the card game we developed. Is it a successful and practical way to explore the ethical questions that IOT products that are being developed raise?

Improving innovation capacity building to achieve sustainable digital agri businesses

Acceleration of digital innovation in the agri sector is often facilitated by organszations that bring parties together and support them with knowledge and skills. In this workshop, we will tell more about how the SmartAgriHubs project approaches the process of building innovation capacity in digital agri ecoystems, followed by sharing best practices and exchanging ideas on how to improve this.

Innovation Portal - all you need to know

The Innovation Portal is the central place in SmartAgriHubs where all activities meet. Users work together to fill the events, knowledge exchange, networking with other organisations, maturity, Open calls information, and much more. In this workshop we dive into those functionalities and explain why they work as they do. We want to hear your suggestions for improvement and brainstorm about the future of the Innovation Portal.

"DEMETER - large scale piloting activities"

This session will present a number of pilots from the DEMETER project (http://h2020-demeter.eu/) focusing on key challenges and expected benefits. The session provides attendees with an opportunity to leverage the knowledge being generated in DEMETER and should pave the way to cross-project collaboration. Additionally, we will be announcing the DEMETER Cascade Funds available.

Training as key topic for success - Filling the gap between research and farmers

The innoseta session will focus the most important problems detected: great differences in farmer’s education, differences between North and South (field crops and specialty crops); high technology already available but, how often farmers are able to use it?

Building a sustainable network for agrifood robotics in Central East Europe

One of goals of the H2020 agROBOfood project is to build a sustainable network of DIHs and CCs focused on agrifood robotics. This meeting will provide an opportunity for different actors from Central East Europe who work in the field to come together and start the conversation addressing challenges, needs and opportunities that are specific to this region. Representatives of organizations working in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro are welcome to participate. For any questions feel free to contact Staša Stojkov via email stasa.stojkov@biosense.rs.

The Research Institute for Fruit Growing (RIFG) is located in the beautiful hilly area of Pitesti, Romania, 120 km away from Bucharest. Founded in 1967, this public institution focuses on germplasm, fruit breeding, cultivation technologies, pests and diseases physiology, and postharvest physiology.

The research fields and demonstrative plots encompassed by the institute cover an area of 150 hectares. Over the past 20 years, this highly specialised establishment has produced 51 cultivars including 7 apple, 6 pear, 2 quince, 4 plum, 6 cherry, 2 strawberry, 1 chokeberry, 1 black currant, 7 blueberry, 3 sea buckthorn, 3 honeysuckle, 2 gooseberry, 4 raspberry, 2 blackberry, 1 cornelian cherry.

The RIFG is a hub of knowledge and resources. In order to ever improve its service and its research, the Institute has extended its cooperation with other national and international research institutes, universities, fruit companies, individual producers, nursery companies and with the processing industry.

Founded in 1941, the NUCET Center of Research for Aquaculture is located in the town of Nucet in Western Transylvania.

The institute focuses its research on aquaculture, mainly on the production and use of zooplankton biomass as food for the growth, in the post-embryo development stage, of some valuable fish species, such as sturgeons, zander and European catfish which are the object of intensive farming in Romania. The objective is to create two production systems of live food, at industrial level, in a controlled environment, in the required quantities and during the desired period.

S.C.D.P. Nucet produces stocking material of different ages for about 80% of the aquaculture farms in Romania. The institution also encompasses a counselling center that ensures the technological transfer and assistance for the implementation of new technologies and methods. Through these two activities, knowledge transfer and close to business synergies are fostered.

Tour of the Romanian Parliament, with the opportunity to meet Representatives of the Agri Committee.

The Palace of the Parliament, located in Bucharest, is the meeting place of the national legislature of Romania. It encompasses the Chamber of Deputies as well as the Senate. It is the largest administrative building in the world as well as the most expensive building in the world.

The tour will cover not only the press gallery and the Gallery of Honour but also a number of Halls which are often used for high-level events. Further, a discussion will be organized with representatives from the Romanian Agriculture committee. The tour may not be suited for people with disabilities.