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Understanding user requirements for the SOCS platform
Introduction In early February, DEMETER carried out two workshops: one with a farmer user group and the second with technical providers, to better understand the requirements from each user group regarding the SOCS platform. SOCS, the DEMETER Stakeholder Open Collaboration Space, is an online platform dedicated to all stakeholders (farmers, advisors, and suppliers) where they can...
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Launching the Stakeholder Open Collaboration Space
In March, the Stakeholder Open Collaboration Space (SOCS), our multi-actor innovation community building & management platform, dedicated to all stakeholders (farmers, advisors, and suppliers) will be launched and adopted in the extended ecosystem around DEMETER. This digital space has been designed to connect users and organizations, leveraging on their skills, technologies and knowledge by providing a...
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How to deploy a real-world Agriculture Data Space
In this article, our project partner, Engineering, discuss how to deploy a real-world Agriculture Data Space in practice. Overview of the European context Data-driven innovation plays a key role in the current transformation of our society and organizations, starting with data coming from users involved in the use of social networking tools, web and mobile...
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Supporting International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 to commemorate the cultural, political, and socioeconomic achievements of women. This year, the campaign theme was #BreaktheBias where collectively we can imagine and strive for a gender equal world, without bias, stereotypes and discrimination. As part of this, we celebrate women’s achievement, raise...
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Webinar: The Farmer’s Voice – Drivers and Barriers to Technology Adoption
DEMETER in association with SVG Ventures | THRIVE is organizing an online event titled ‘The Farmer’s Voice: Discussing Drivers and Barriers to Technology Adoption’ on 31st March at 2-3.30PM (CET). The webinar will share results of the recent DEMETER survey which aimed to better understand farmers’ needs, interests and concerns regarding the adoption and use...
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A review of The Changing Face of Agriculture event
Introduction On February 17th, DEMETER and SmartAgriHubs joined forces to host an event titled ‘The Changing Face of Agriculture – discussing youth, gender and digitalisation in agriculture. Significant conclusions related to the age, gender, pay and education gap in agriculture can be extracted from the data gathered on the “Agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics —...
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DEMETER features in AIOTI publications
The Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) has recently published a report titled ‘Role of IoT in addressing the agroecological focus of the Green Deal’. DEMETER featured in the report demonstrating use-cases of how IoT is an enabler of sustainable farming and agroecological practices in the Common Agricultural Policy. As outlined in the report,...
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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,...
