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Press release- SmartAgriHubs Final Conference
The SmartAgriHubs project is coming to an end on 1st November 2022. After 4 years, the project will be celebrating its community and its legacy in a 3-day conference from 26 to 28 September in Lisbon, Portugal. The event will gather partners, experts, members of the European institutions to discuss the results of the project and its perspective.
- Aquaculture
Sustainable management of mollusc culture
The Terra&Acqua Laboratory of the University of Ferrara has developed the localisation and georeferenced mapping of nursery areas for veracious clams in lagoon zones. The data has been used as a decision support tool for their expansion. Then the lab. has setup a process for the recovery of the production waste by foreseeing the reuse of sea waste (shells of bivalve molluscs). The valorisation of the production waste has generated an improvement of the sediment texture quality of the seabed in favour of water body oxygenation, decreasing the effects of marine waters acidification and reducing the impacts of climate change.
SmartAgriHubs at LFDay 2022
- Vegetables
- Novel Foods
- Livestock
- Fruit
- Dairy
- Arable
- Aquaculture
- Animal Production
12 June 2022 - The meeting place for the innovative agricultural and food ecosystem! "What pride to gather you for this 6th edition! The day was for us in 2017, a real bet, it becomes a window on the future! On the theme of EMPREINTE, we invite you to join the innovative ecosystem serving agriculture and food, farmers and citizens. The challenges are ever more numerous, and the diversity of solutions bears witness to this. Entrepreneurs, Investors, Experts, Partners, Farmers, Institutions...
Technological innovations can help us avoid the upcoming food crisis
08 June 2022 - There is a serious challenge in the food supply, which, if not handled properly, could lead to hunger in some regions and negative social outcomes for everyone. Everyone needs food to survive, right? So how can we stand against all these threats, and even benefit as a society? The answer is already here: Digitalization in the agriculture industry.
West Data Festival
07 June 2022 - In 2022, a new event dedicated to the Artificial Intelligence and data in agriculture took place in the Pays de la Loire Region. The West Data Festival, organised by the Laval Mayenne Technopole, is a festival dedicated to data in general, with a variety of topics such as business intelligence, cybersecurity, industry or health.
Youth are our future - Building Sustained Smart Farming and Bioeconomy Competence in Central Finland
25 May 2022 - The significant potential of young people in implementing SFT, sustainable agricultural development and shaping the future of rural areas, in general, is widely acknowledged, yet is largely untapped in digitalisation and technology adoption processes in agriculture.
Drones and advisory services in practice
11 May 2022 - FIE16 was an experiment witch develop, test and launch 4 e-consulting e-services using drones in agriculture. As part of the experiment, the process of designing services, needs and market analysis was carried out. A business plan and an implementation strategy for the consulting market was being developed, in particular for small and medium-sized farms.
EU funding opportunity in advanced digital skills
06 May 2022 - The currently open Call under the DIGITAL Europe Programme dedicates €25 million to train people in advanced digital technologies. It will fund short-term trainings to help businesses (in particular SMEs) upskill their employees in areas such as AI, cybersecurity, IoT, Cloud, Microelectronics, etc.
SAH Spring Sprint: Boost your capacity!
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- Novel Foods
- Livestock
- Fruit
- Dairy
- Arable
- Aquaculture
- Animal Production
05 May 2022 - The Spring Sprint is the climax of SmartAgriHubs’ capacity building for DIHs: in a four-week journey you will be engulfed in the project's capacity building material together with your DIH peers. Take your chance to exchange and learn with your peers now!