A €20m H2020 project that brings together a consortium of over 164 partners in the European agri-food sector. The project aims to realise the digitisation of European agriculture by fostering an agricultural innovation ecosystem dedicated to excellence, sustainability and success
Unleashing the innovation potential for the digital transformation of the European Agrifood Sector
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SmartAgriHubs is a €20 M EU project under the Horizon 2020 instrument, that brings together a consortium of over 164 partners in the European agri-food sector. The project aims to realise the digitisation of European agriculture by fostering an agricultural innovation ecosystem dedicated to excellence, sustainability and success. www.smartagrihubs.eu
To this end, SmartAgriHubs employs a multi-stakeholder approach and covers a broad value-chain network across all EU member states. The consortium includes a diverse network of start-ups, SMEs, business and service providers, technology experts and end-users. The end-users form the core of the project and are the driving force behind digital transformation. The development and adoption of digital solutions is achieved by a tight ecosystem of 140 Digital Innovation Hubs embedded within 9 Regional Clusters, which are led by organisations that are closely involved in regional digitisation initiatives and funds.
Walton Institute are the Regional Cluster lead for Ireland and the UK. (https://www.smartagrihubs.eu/regions) This network of Digital Innovation Hubs consists of 2000 competence centers and 28 Flag Ship Innovation Experiments where ideas and prototypes are developed and introduced into the market. The key to the inter-connectivity and knowledge-sharing of this network of European innovation in agri-food is SmartAgriHubs, which leverages, strengthens and connects all the different dots. There are two innovation experiments based in Ireland and the UK Region. (https://www.smartagrihubs.eu/flagship-innovation-experiments)
In SmartAgriHubs we work with ‘deliverables’. A deliverable is something that is provided or achieved as a result of a process – an output. During the life-cycle of the SmartAgriHubs project, we need to present the following deliverables:
WP1 DIH Ecosystem Building
WP2 Network Expansion by Open Calls
WP3 Monitoring & Evaluation of Innovation Experiments
WP4 DIH capacity building and monitoring
WP5 Competence Centers (CC)
WP6 Project Management
WP7 Ethics requirements