i2Connect

In i2connect is creating a support network and a networking culture among advisors facilitating innovation processes in European agriculture and forestry.

Project objective:

i2connect project team is working to fuel the competencies of advisors and their organizations to engage and support farmers and foresters in interactive innovation processes. Innovation is a key factor in continual adaptation to the various and sometimes contradictory challenges and in taking advantage of new opportunities.

The i2connect project aims to fuel the competencies of advisors who will support and facilitate interacitve innovation processes responding to multiple challenges in European agriculture and forestry. The strategy in i2connect is to use the existing advisor networks and the experiences of success in different contexts to create a broader network and momentum of change enabling a new culture of bottom-up led innovation support. This resource of over 40.000 advisors is a critical actor supporting agriculture and forestry on the ground and must be influenced in this project to support interactively innovation with particular emphasis on EIP-AGRI 2020 target of 3.500 operation groups and beyond.

Project: Connecting advisers to boost interactive innovation in agriculture and forestry
Duration: November 1st 2019 to October 31st 2024
Funded: Horizon Europe 2020
Lead: Assemblee permanente des chambres d‘agriculture (APCA), France

Role of the LKO:

Carrying out the AKIS inventory in Austria in collaboration with UCAEP and participation in 1 field review of practical cases, where experiences in interactive innovation support have been successful.

Contact person in LKO:

Mara Lindtner
E-Mail: m.lindtner@lk-oe.at
Phone: +43 (0) 1 53441-8610

Further information can be found on the project website (see links on the topic below).