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Accelerating Innovative practices for Spraying Equipment, Training and Advising in European agriculture through the mobilization of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems
Start date: 1 May 2018
End date: 30 April 2021
In a nutshell:
INNOSETA is an European Union’s Horizon 2020 project aiming at establishing a self-sustaining and innovative thematic network on crop protection and the sustainable use of plant protection products (spray equipment, training and advice) to close the gap between new developments resulting from the numerous projects European research, and the use and exploitation of all this by the farmer. The project is coordinated by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain), with an international and representative consortium of 15 partners, coming from 8 EU countries, including the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA), COPA-COGECA and CEMA, with total budget of € 1 998 562,50.
The project intends to:
- Create an inventory of directly applicable Spraying Equipment, Technologies and Applications from the large stock of research results and commercial applications;
- Assess end-user needs and interests, and identify factors influencing adoption, taking into account regional/national specificities;
- Generate interactive multi-actor, innovation-based collaborations among different stakeholders;
- Set up of an ICT tool for the on-line assessment of the Spraying Equipment, Technologies and Applications and the crowdsourcing of grassroots-level ideas and needs;
- Liaise with EIP-Agri and its structures.
The project already developed its INNOSETA Platform, a freely accessible repository of innovative spraying technology, training material, projects and papers tailored to the needs of the spraying community. More info on the platform can be found HERE.
CEMA’s role:
INNOSETA will be an important opportunity for CEMA to continue working with ECPA and COPA-COGECA boosting the success of STEP-Water, the webtool developed jointly by CEMA and ECPA to help farmers and contractors to make a well thought through purchasing decision for a new sprayer - or retrofit old sprayers in terms of water protection.
Additionally, CEMA is supporting the creation of the innovative SETA solutions inventory (INNOSETA platform) by identifying and screening industry products/applications related to SETA that are already on the market.
In the frame of Dissemination and Communication activities, CEMA will:
- Support the WP leader in the communications activities; including support in the organization of the project final conference;
- Participate in events and meetings;
- Contribute to the dissemination of the project;
- And ensure a direct link with existing relevant international initiatives in the field of innovative spraying equipment.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 773864
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Internet of Food and Farm 2020
Start date: 1 January 2017
End date: 31 December 2020
In a nutshell:
The IoF2020 is an European Union’s Horizon 2020 project is dedicated to accelerate adoption of IoT for securing sufficient, safe and healthy food and to strengthen competitiveness of farming and food chains in Europe. The projects brings together 73 partners, including CEMA and individual manufacturers, such as 365FarmNet, CNH Industrial, Grimme, Kverneland. The coordination of the project is in hands of Wageningen University with the overall budget of € 34 234 990,42. The heart of the project is formed by 19 use cases grouped in 5 trials with end users from the Arable, Dairy, Fruits, Vegetables and Meat verticals and IoT integrators that will demonstrate the business case of innovative IoT solutions for a large number of application areas involving different stakeholders.
The project intends to:
- Demonstrate the business case of IoT for a large number of application areas in farming and food;
- Integrate and reuse available IoT technologies by exploiting open architectures and standards;
- Ensure user acceptability of IoT solutions in farming and food by addressing user needs, including security, privacy and trust;
- Ensure the sustainability of IoT solutions beyond the project by validating the related business models and setting up an IoT Ecosystem for large scale take-up.
CEMA’s role:
CEMA, in its role of European Association, is member of the Pilot Implementation Board (PIB) which allows a close follow-up of future IoF2020 activities.
In particular, the PIB closely follows the procedures for the planning, launching and managing of the Open Call. The main objective of the Open Call is to increase the scale and impact of the IoF2020 initiative: for doing so, the Open Call will allow new use case teams with highly impactful and market-ready IoT innovations to join the IoF2020 team. All the IoF2020 Use cases are also available on the IoT Catalogue platform.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 731884
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Sustainable techno-economic solutions for the agricultural value chain
Start date: 1 June 2016
End date: 31 May 2019
In a nutshell:
AgroCycle is a ca. €8 million (ca. €7 million from the European Commission, ca. €1 million from the Government of The People’s Republic of China) Horizon 2020 research and innovation project addressing the recycling and valorisation of waste from the agri-food sector. Led by the School of Biosystems and Food Engineering at University College Dublin, the consortium of 26 partners comprises partners from 8 EU countries, two partners from mainland China, and one from Hong Kong. The project takes a holistic approach to understanding and addressing how to make best use of the full range of waste streams associated with the agri-food industry. It will address a wide range of valorisation pathways, including: bio-fuels, high value-added biopolymers, energy and microbial fuel cells. It will deliver the AgroCycle Protocol, a blueprint for achieving sustainable agri-food waste valorisation.
Project objectives:
AgroCycle aims at developing and demonstrating a protocol to deliver a 10% increase in agricultural waste valorisation by 2020 and contribute to the European policy target of reducing food waste by 50% in 2030 as well as to enhancing greater sustainability in China in this field.
The project’s main objectives are to achieve:
- Understanding and mapping the agri-food waste streams and finding out the various valorisation pathways with their high-value products;
- Optimised design for multi-feedstock biofuels production with higher conversion yield and improved functionalities;
- Optimised biofertilisers production and use;
- Development of a generic modular design for valorisation and reuse of nutritional wastewaters from the agri-food processing industries;
- Integrated, flexible multi-feedstock extraction of proteins, fibres and SPMs from horticultural waste;
- Implementation of a multi-actor joint stakeholder platform for knowledge exchange;
- Definition of sustainable value chains and new models for business.
Consortium:
The AgroCycle consortium is a large (25) multi-national group (including China) comprising the necessary and relevant multi-actors (i.e. researchers; companies in the technical, manufacturing, advisory, retail sectors (Large and SMEs); lead users; end users; and trade/producer associations) coordinated by the School of Biosystems and Food Engineering at University College Dublin.
CEMA role & contributions:
CEMA has been a key partner to promote the involvement of the private sector – agricultural machinery industry – into the AgroCycle project, thus:
- Providing feedback to the consortium about the existing technologies for processing waste stream and facilitating the logistics in collection, storage and transport.
- Informing and involving the CEMA network about the main outcomes of the activities carried out in this Work Package.
- Liaising with the agricultural machinery industry, facilitating the participation of industry representatives at the events organized by the project.
- Supporting the development of the Joint Stakeholder Platform (JSP) and the Market Place, bringing the view of the ag. machinery industry.
- Carrying out a full analysis of barriers, benefits and recommendations for sustainable agricultural systems, focused on how the use of modern farm machinery could enhance a further re-use of AWCB on farms (as part as the Interim Report ‘Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems’ - D8.2).
- Contributing to the dissemination activities through the different CEMA channels (newsletter, website, social media, individual contacts, etc.) as well as presenting the project progress in different EU and National events, and during internal CEMA meetings.
- Participating in European and National meetings and workshops organized by the project.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 690142
To advance agricultural machinery and solutions for sustainable farming, CEMA focuses on a number of priorities. Agriculture 4.0 and Smart Farm Machines are drivers for efficiency and competitiveness in modern sustainable farming. EU Regulations must however be appropriate, harmonizing the rules without burdening the sector with excessive administrative and technical requirements. Through the participation to selected EU projects and initiatives, our industry contributes to innovation in the agri-food chain. The European farm equipment industry is a leading technology provider for farmers worldwide and is part of the solution to feed a growing world population.
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