North East Europe Regional Cluster Results & Achievements Virtual Workshop 24.03.2021.

North East Europe Regional Cluster is organising a Webinar for DIHs, research institutes, agriculture advisors and policy makers, as well as other relevant stakeholders in the region. The event will feature as invited speaker Aivars Lapins, the Latvian representative in the Agriculture and Fisheries Committees of the OECD, who will talk about the Digitalisation of agriculture – global perspective of the region. The Webinar will include presentation from the innovation experiments in the region, describing their achievements and results, presentations from DIHs in the region to promote their latest’s achievements and news, as well as presentations of the latest’s features of the innovation portal and the open call of SmartAgriHubs. The latter will be presented by Harald Sundmaeker and will include a hand-on session with a practical guidance to the application forms.  Furthermore, the Webinar will feature presentations of success stories of cooperation and exploitation of results from experiments in Poland and Lithuania. The Webinar aims to inform the existing network and to engage new organisations in joining the cluster to co-design, co-develop and benefit from the opportunities offered by the SmartAgriHubs network.

PROGRAMM
12:30 – 12:40 Welcome and North East Europe updates (Inga Berzina, Raul Palma)
12:40 – 13:00 Digitalisation of agriculture – global perspective of the region (Aivars Lapins, Latvian representative in the Agriculture and Fisheries Committees of the OECD)
13:00 – 13:50 Flagship Innovation Experiments NEE results
13:50 – 14:15 SmartAgriHubs updates
14:15 – 14:30 Break
14:30 -15:20 DIH presentations
15:20 – 15:50 Cooperation success stories
15:50 – 16:20 SmartAgriHubs RESTART & EXPAND Open Calls for Proposals – SmartAgriHubs RESTART & EXPAND Open Calls for Proposals’ Applications forms- practical guidance (Harald Sundmaeker)
16:20-16:30 Conclusions

Registration link: https://forms.gle/YcFmREUHp64fJ6gf9

Contacts: Inga Berzina (inga@zsa.lv), Raul Palma (rpalma@man.poznan.pl)