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GAIA EPICHEIREIN
GAIA EPICHEIREIN’s mission is to assist Greek farmers and agri-cooperatives in making a quality leap towards a more sustainable and competitive agricultural model by investing in three strategic pillars: knowledge and innovation, entrepreneurship & cooperation.
Circular Bioeconomy Cluster, South-West
The Circular Bioeconomy Cluster South-West unlocks and accelerate business opportunities and new value chains across sectors including those of strategic important to the South-West region, namely marine, agriculture and waste-to-value.
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Join the ClusterXchange programme, and boost your capacity to learn with other European organisations!
ClusterXchange is a project part of the European Cluster Collaboration Platform, modelled after Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs. Indeed, it is an exchange program that consists of representatives of eligible Visiting Organisations (VO) visiting a Host Organisation (HO) abroad between 3 days and 1 month. The majority of the organisations participating are Cluster organisations and SMEs, but many other types of organisations are also eligible.
The program is implemented by the European Cluster Partnerships for Excellence (Partnerships), groups of Cluster organisations that organise themselves according to sectors of activity. They are in charge of guiding the organisations through the program, as well as promoting it at a national level. To participate in ClusterXchange, organisations must choose a Partnership to collaborate with. Organisations are strongly encouraged to reach out to the Partnerships they want to collaborate with before engaging in ClusterXchange by themselves (you will have a contact form in each of their profiles in the hyperlink above).
The whole exchange process must be encoded in the CXC IT Tool, where you create your own organisation’s profile, match it with other organisations and initiate exchanges with them. To sign up for the CXC IT Tool, you must have created an organisation profile on the ECCP webpage.
The exchanges aim to increase cluster collaboration through networking, market research or peer learning, whilst it allows organisations to increase their visibility, broaden their sector and overall increase opportunities for growth.
Take the survey and help the SAH Gender Task Force to raise awarness about Gender Equality!
The SmartAgriHubs Gender Task Force would like to bring its work to the next level by collecting data about gender balance in the agri-food and agri-tech sectors. Everyone is welcome to take the survey and we encourage you to share it with your colleagues and network too! Let's build a fair and sustainable ecosystem together: Challenges and best practices across the European agri-tech ecosystem
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New features for Competence Centers!
Work Package 1 and Work Package 3 added new features on the Innovation Portal for the Agricultural Technology Navigator. The Systems and Technologies are now visible on the Competence Centers profile!
Don't wait anymore, register your Competence Center on the Innovation Portal and fill in the ATN: Go to the ATN!
Take the survey and help the SAH Gender Task Force to raise awarness about Gender Equality!
The SmartAgriHubs Gender Task Force would like to bring its work to the next level by collecting data about gender balance in the agri-food and agri-tech sectors. Everyone is welcome to take the survey and we encourage you to share it with your colleagues and network too! Let's build a fair and sustainable ecosystem together: Challenges and best practices across the European agri-tech ecosystem
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 818182.
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New SmartAgriHubs Open Calls
The SmartAgriHubs team is proud to announce the launch of the new Open Call PREPARE! This new Open Call will complete the two previous ones: RESTART and EXPAND, and it will have the same strategic goal: supporting the development of new Innovation Experiments.
The PREPARE Open Call targets DIHs with an idea for Innovation Experiment but in need for help and support to prepare their proposal. The DIH or the consortia could receive up to €20.000 in lump-sum and the total budget of the Open Call is of €1.2million!
Therefore, after being successful to the Open Call PREPARE, the DIHs would also be able to apply to the Open Call EXPAND, which aims at supporting the DIHs in running their Innovation Experiments.
We recommend you to watch our webinar with Harald Sundmaeker, he got you cover with all the details!
FOODIE SmartAgrihub
Social space for smart farming
The purpose of AgriHub is to design and develop an intelligent agricultural innovation center – the digital innovation hub. The platform is designed to create links between people, companies, researchers and other entities with the knowledge and technology that will help realize innovative projects and ideas.
One of the principles is to connect common users with developers and researchers - creating a community portal. The second principle is the integration of demo applications where users, developers and researchers will have the opportunity to collaborate, build and test different solutions. For this purpose, a development and testing environment is prepared. Such created experiments will be presented to other users.
We are currently preparing and installing our Digital Innovation Hub solution for two new partners.
The first one is the Polirural Digital Innovation Hub which will provide four distinctive sections, or spaces, that cater for both internal and external users. These sections include an interaction space with forums, dialogue and Wiki capabilities to support stakeholder interaction. Second, it provides a learning space for Massive Open Online Courses to facilitate dissemination and uptake of knowledge and methodology developed through the project. Next to that, it includes an experimentation space for testing analytics and visualization including text mining and system dynamics based on real data. It also provides a development and hosting space for creating virtual instances of the shared reference to be used by each pilot when developing their applications.
Our second solution is the Smart Afri Hub Digital Innovation Hub which will be the main Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for interactive knowledge sharing and will host all results generated by the project. The Innovation Hub will act as a gateway for activities, creating innovative tools aimed at making rural areas and professions more attractive.
We have already prepared a series of webinars for both Digital Innovation Hubs where the smartagrihub.eu project is also promoted.