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The Changing Face of Agriculture – 17th February 2022

The European agriculture sector is undeniably facing several challenges including an ageing population and gender inequality. However, tackling these challenges head-on can provide a professional development opportunity for new generations, in which women will experience an acceleration towards equality.  To clearly address the current status and the growing opportunities within farming, DEMETER and SmartAgriHubs, leading Horizon2020 projects...
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The generational and gender gap in agriculture

The European agricultural sector is undeniably facing several challenges including an ageing population and gender inequality. However, tackling these challenges head-on can provide a professional development opportunity for new generations, in which women will experience an acceleration towards equality.  To clearly address the current status and the growing opportunities within farming, DEMETER and SmartAgriHubs, leading...
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IoT Week 2022 – Global Vision: IoT Today and Beyond

The 11th edition of the IoT Week conference, a global annual event dedicated to IoT, will take place in Dublin (Ireland) from June 20th to 23rd, 2022. DEMETER will be running  a session dedicated to Digital Agriculture.  IoT Week is the most important annual event organized by the IoT Forum since 2011.  The last edition, due to the pandemic,...
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User Journey Mapping in DEMETER

In DEMETER, we advocate a multi-actor approach which aims to make innovation fully demand-driven.  As part of this, user journey mapping exercises were conducted by members of the consortium.  Dave Hearne of Walton Institute outlines some of these activities below. To fully understand how all of the different components work together in DEMETER, a user...
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Fostering interoperability between DEMETER and other smart farming communities: the AFARCLOUD case

One of the goals of DEMETER is to be interoperable with other existing smart farming-IoT based solutions, so that both communities can exchange information and services for a mutually beneficial collaboration. In this blog we will analyse the interoperability between DEMETER and AFarCloud platforms, which is being demonstrated in use case no. 1 (UC#1) of...
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DEMETER Open Call webinar – 11th January 2022

The DEMETER project has launched its second open call, DEPLOY, to fund the deployment of new pilots in the agri-food sector, offering grants up to EUR 150.000 (equity-free). DEPLOY aims to increase the outreach of the DEMETER value proposition by funding small consortia of 2-3 partners for the deployment of new, high-value pilots in the...