Connecting advisers to boost interactive innovation in agriculture and forestry
Project description/ objectves
The i2connect project aims to fuel the competencies of advisors supporting interactive innovation processes to respond to multiple challenges in European agriculture and forestry.
i2connect SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1. To strengthen the skills, competencies and attitudes of advisors to support interactive innovation, by identifying and sharing best practices, developing tools and methods, training, and organising peer to peer learning & networking;
2. To enhance and profile the role of advisors in interactive innovation processes, at different scales: by a better understanding of the AFKIS at country level, by identifying providers of advisory services across Europe, by creating an enabling environment within advisory services, by better connecting and embedding advisory services within the AFKIS and by appropriate public policies;
3. To create a social support network and a networking culture among advisors facilitating innovative innovation processes.
i2connect SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1. To strengthen the skills, competencies and attitudes of advisors to support interactive innovation, by identifying and sharing best practices, developing tools and methods, training, and organising peer to peer learning & networking;
2. To enhance and profile the role of advisors in interactive innovation processes, at different scales: by a better understanding of the AFKIS at country level, by identifying providers of advisory services across Europe, by creating an enabling environment within advisory services, by better connecting and embedding advisory services within the AFKIS and by appropriate public policies;
3. To create a social support network and a networking culture among advisors facilitating innovative innovation processes.

Program
Horizon 2020
Leader/ Consortium Members
The project is coordinated by the French Chambers of Agriculture (APCA)
Total Budget in EUR
4,999,943.00
Project duration
Project start - November 2019
Project end - October 2024
Project end - October 2024
Link to the project website
For more details - CDR Contact person
Piotr Dąbrowski
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