Projects & Practice

Bonita - Introducing a new, resistant club variety of apples in Slovenia

Keywords:: Agriculture, Cooperation, Information & promotion activities, Innovation, Knowledge transfer
Countries:: Slovenia

Slovenian apple producers introduce new and popular eco-friendly variety.

EIP AGRI Operational group EKOPAKT for the integrity of organic food supply chains

Keywords:: Competitiveness, Cooperation, Digitisation, Innovation, Organic farming, Product quality, Short supply chains & local markets
Countries:: Slovenia

An EIP-AGRI Operational Group aimed to improve the traceability and marketing of organic beef in the Slovenian food supply chain through a blockchain-based system.

EIP PRO-PRIDELAVA - Increasing agricultural productivity with efficient and sustainable use of water

Keywords:: Agriculture, Cooperation, Energy efficiency, GHG & ammonia emissions, Innovation, Water management
Countries:: Slovenia

A cooperation project that promotes sustainable water use and smart irrigation, contributing to the mitigation of climate change and improving the quantity and quality of crop production.

Plasma Activated Water for Sustainable Agriculture

Keywords:: Agriculture, Competitiveness, Cooperation, Innovation, Sustainability
Countries:: The Netherlands

An EIP Operational Group worked on upscaling the production of Plasma Activated Water (PAW) and on demonstrating its effectiveness and cost efficiency as a sustainable nitrogen fertiliser.

EIP Operational Group - Grass2Algae

Keywords:: Agriculture, Bioeconomy, Climate change adaptation, Cooperation, Innovation
Countries:: Belgium

CAP funds in Belgium help convert waste grass into superfood algae.

Participatory Guarantee Systems - Dialogue between consumers and farmers for sustainable short supply chains

Keywords:: Agriculture, Competitiveness, Cooperation, Organic farming, Producer groups, Short supply chains & local markets
Countries:: The Netherlands

Developing a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) in the Netherlands as an alternative to formal certification for small producers operating in short supply chains.

A young farmer modernised his family’s farm located in a remote mountainous area

Keywords:: Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, Family farming, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Job creation, Mountain area, Young farmers
Countries:: Slovenia

CAP funds for a young farmer support rural revitalisation in the Slovenian mountains

Mobile social grocery 'De Kommisje'

Keywords:: Cooperation, Job creation, Social inclusion, Social services
Countries:: Belgium

Setting up a ‘mobile social grocery’ where users will pay a low price for products, and may also choose free products, improving accessibility, reducing iscolation and giving families a more ‘human’ experience.

Restoring forests damaged by natural disasters and improving the viability of forests - Slovenia

Keywords:: Environmental sustainability, Forestry, Rural Inspiration Awards: nominees
Countries:: Slovenia

This pan-Slovenian project is designed to combat the consequences of natural disasters that have affected forests across the country in the last six years. The project includes sustainable measures to restore damaged forests, adapting them to climate change, and is focused on areas that are under the greatest pressure.

Farmers measure water – Netherlands

Keywords:: Agriculture, Cooperation, Digitisation, Rural Inspiration Awards: nominees, Water management
Countries:: The Netherlands

This project combined state-of-the-art sensoring techniques and models with a participatory monitoring process with farmers and water authorities to create a common understanding of the main local challenges and possible solutions to enhance water quality. In addition, the process empowered individual farmers to become equal partners with water authorities as they gained knowledge and access to data. Problems with water management differ between regions, but the process of jointly collecting, learning from and acting on data can be applied across regions.