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EUREKA was an EU-funded action that aimed to help ensure the longer-term and wider use by farmers, foresters and other rural businesses of the practical knowledge and innovative solutions that are generated by Horizon 2020 multi-actor projects.

EUREKA is the sister project of EURAKNOS.

Follow-up project will support knowledge exchange between all AKIS actors in EUROPE

A new project under Horizon Europe, named simply ‘EU FarmBook’, will demonstrate not only the feasibility of such a knowledge hub, but also the immense interest and support for it among Europe’s agriculture/forestry researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.

In the first phase of this seven-year initiative, the pilot version of the EU FarmBook will undergo a series of significant updates based on the user feedback collected so far. Project partners and developers will continue to improve user-friendliness (including multilingual functionality), search performance, management of the Community and Expert sections

Another crucial effort in the EU FarmBook project will be working to ensure that the platform is effectively integrated, through networking and cooperation activities, with all key actors in EU- and national-level Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKISs),

AKIS (Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System)
AKIS actors: farmers, farm workers, agricultural educators, researchers, non-academic experts, public and independent private advisors, supply chain actors, and other actors in agriculture

ANALYZING

We have analyzed the supply of knowledge from multi-actor projects, as well as the profile of the users of this knowledge, to make recommendations for the better sharing of Horizon 2020 research outputs.

SELECTING AND VALIDATING

We have actively engaged with the multi-actor project community to select the most relevant and high impact knowledge and innovation for meeting the practical needs of farmers, foresters and other rural businesses.

BUILDING

We are building the EU FarmBook to present this knowledge and innovation in an accessible, easily searchable and open source e-platform that is available long-term to a broad range of relevant users.

21 Partners
15 Countries
4 EU Macro-regions

1 Belgium
2 Netherlands
- Maastricht University
- ZLTO
3 Greece
- AUA
4 Spain
- USC
5 Slovenia
- KIS
6 Denmark
- Aarhus University
7 United Kingdom
- RAU
8 France
- AC3A
- Idele
9 Germany
- Rhine-Waal University
10 Hungary
- NAIK
- NAK
11 Italy
- UNITO
- 3A-PTA
12 Romania
- Highclere consulting
13 Lithuania
- LAAS
14 Sweden
- IFOAM
15 Estonia
- ARC

11 May 2022

In order to test the feasibility of developing an EU-level online knowledge reservoir - the EUREKA team created end-user personas and journeys to help understand the requirements of farmers, foresters and advisors across the EU.

Since 2014, the EU has invested in a large number of agricultural research, innovation, coordination and support actions to improve knowledge flows in the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKISs)...this action aims at improving knowledge flows in the long-term by proposing ways to structure and connect agricultural knowledge created through EU-funded and other projects with a view to maximize their impact beyond the end of the projects themselves
- European Commission
EUREKA builds upon experience gained in the EURAKNOS project and approximately 50% of the partners in EUREKA also participated in EURAKNOS. We therefore anticipate great complementarity and synergy between the two projects!
- Prof. Pieter Spanoghe, Project Coordinator