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The EUREKA project was represented at the 2nd Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW)

Going the extra mile: Understanding people in the agricultural sector - Webinar Thursday 8^th July 18.00 to 19.00.

The European Seminar on Extension and Education (ESEE) is a group of educators and advisors who every second year hold a conference on topics related to agricultural extension and education. This year the conference was virtual and took place 21-23 June 2021. Pieter Spanoghe, who is Project coordinator of the Horizon 2020 EURAKNOS/EUREKA projects and professor at Ghent University, was invited to join a panel debate on innovative knowledge.

EUREKA has delivered a list of the best communication and dissemination techniques and channels to reach a high impact in multi-actor projects

On February 16th the EUREKA Knowledge Innovation Panel (KIP) was invited for a meeting to learn about the results and status of the EUREKA project. The main goals of the KIP meeting were to gather feedback from the members regarding how best to assess and achieve impact in a multi-actor project and to discuss the future and longer-term sustainability of EUREKA

If you are involved in agriculture or forestry, we would like to invite you to take part in this short survey (less than 15 minutes) for the EU Commission-funded project EUREKA. There have been many exciting agricultural and forestry projects across the EU since 2014 that have helped to produce lots of important and useful information, but we want to know how well this information is actually being shared and used – its impact.

There is an excellent research network established across Europe with over 70000 connections, which is mostly concentrated in the Southern, Western, and Northern regions and less in and with the Eastern European countries. Therefore, strong efforts should be carried out to promote research and innovation networking in Eastern Europe.

The launch of the EU FarmBook pilot platform is approaching. The technical partners of the EUREKA consortium expect that the platform will be presented and ready as a pilot project in July-August 2021. There are some important final activities though that needs to be done prior to the launch.

Partner profile: Interview with Anikó Nagy from Nemzeti Agrárgazdasági Kamara (NAK, Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture) & Szabolcs Vágó from Institute of Agricultural Economics Nonprofit Kft. (AKI)

Essential to the design of the EU FarmBook knowledge platform that the EUREKA project is working on is to have a good understanding of the end-user information needs, preferred channels and challenges in order to help select the most useful knowledge (data) for end users and to verify the preferred communication and dissemination channels to be used to promote the EU FarmBook.