Participation in Final Farm Demo Conference
Assoc. prof. dr. Anastasija Novikova from the Research Institute for Bioeconomy participated in Final Farm Demo Conference, which was held in Brussels on 21th of May, 2019. The conference was dedicated to present the result from three European projects funded under Horizon 2020: AgriDemo-F2F, PLAID and NEFERTITI. AgriDemo-F2F and PLAID focus on understanding the role of European commercial demonstration farms and prepare for more connectivity between actors involved in on-farm demonstrations. These projects develop a geo-referenced online inventory of demonstration farms and build an online FarmDemo-Hub community. The group of researchers from the Research Institute for Bioeconomy (prof. dr. Astrida Miceikiene, assoc. prof. dr. Anastasija Novikova and assoc. prof. dr. Bernardas Vaznonis) participated in PLAID projects’ activities making the national inventories of demonstration farms in Lithuania. NEFERTITI focuses on the establishment of 10 interactive thematic networks covering the 3 main agricultural sectors: animal production, arable farming and horticultural production. They bring together 45 regional hubs of demo-farmers and innovation actors – advisors, cooperatives, NGOs, industry, education, researchers and policy makers. The projects’ implementers hope that the output of AgriDemo-F2F and PLAID will be used as input to set up 3 annual campaigns of on-farm demonstrations. For more information about the projects, please visit https://farmdemo.eu/
