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Horizon of Possibilities – Info Days at UDG
University of Donja Gorica (UDG) organized the ‘Horizon of Possibilities – Info Days at UDG’ event on 12 and 13 April with more than 1,000 visitors in attendance. Main attendees were high school students, their parents, but also the wider social and professional public. UDG invited all those interested to visit, talk with our professors...
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DEMETER presented at Research Day event in Podgorica, Montenegro
University of Donja Gorica (UDG) together with MONSTAT (Statistical Office of Montenegro) and DAMAR (Research agency) recently organized the 11th annual Research Day event, traditionally held on 4 April. The objective of Research Day is to enable students and the wider public to learn more about research activities conducted in Montenegro, and the methodology used,...
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Service call and upgrade in Apple Orchard in Montenegro
University of Donja Gorica and DunavNET team members visited the Nase voce orchard to re-install the weather station and pheromone traps and to perform annual maintenance on all of the IoT nodes. They also added additional soil moisture sensors and pheromone traps. Currently all of the devices and sensors are up and running. Nase voce...
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Vinery Garac in Danilovgrad (Montenegro)
Researchers from University of Donja Gorica (UDG) and DunavNET (DNET) expanded the vineyard pilots in Montenegro by installing equipment and a digital farming platform in the Vinery Garac winery near Danilovgrad in Montenegro. The vineyard is spread out over 5000 square meters and the installed equipment includes a weather station, soil moisture sensors and pheromone traps...
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DEMETER expanding the pilots in Montenegro
Researchers from University of Donja Gorica (UDG) and DunavNET (DNET) expanded the vineyard pilots in Montenegro by installing IoT equipment in the Vinarija Cetkovic winery near Podgorica. The equipment includes a weather station, soil moisture sensors and pheromone traps with a camera. All of the measurements were collected with the AgroNET platform. The vineyard is...
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Report: The changing face of agriculture: “focusing on gender, youth and technology”
The EU’s agriculture sector is facing pressing challenges among which gender and age gaps are critical. The challenge of attracting more young people and more females to the agriculture sector in particular is a significant global issue requiring research, investment and strategic action plans to overcome. Two Horizon 2020 projects, DEMETER and SmartAgriHubs (SAH), both...
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Gender Gap in Funding
In the last decade or so, we have been hearing and reading more about the gender gap in funding. On last year’s International Women’s Day, dealroom reported, in those 10 weeks of 2022, that all-women founding teams had secured just 0.4% of European venture capital, while mixed-gender founding teams had raised 15.2% of the capital....
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Farmer Interview: Valeria Ruggeri, Italy
Valeria Ruggeri manages a livestock farm with her husband. They produce raw milk from about 2200 cattle and cultivate 300 hectares of land to produce feed for their animals. A farm that, despite its intensive management, made sustainability and cow-comfort a must for its business. Valeria has a law degree but is completely engaged in...
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Farmer Interview: Agustina Diaz Valdez, Argentina
WFO Gymnasium Alumna, woman farmer and veterinarian, Agustina is the former President of the Ateneo Sociedad Rural Argentina, the young farmers’ organisation of the WFO member organisation Sociedad Rural Argentina. CAN YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND TELL US ABOUT YOUR FARM? I‘m Agustina, from Argentina. I was born in the south of my country in Rio...
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Interview: Maria Rita Palattella, Senior Researcher LIST, Luxembourg
We spoke with Maria Rita Palattella about her work in the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, the HEMS pilot, and the barriers and drivers for farmers adopting digital technologies. CAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR ORGANISATION AND YOUR INVOLVEMENT IN THE OPEN CALL 2 (OC2) PILOT FUNDED UNDER THE DEMETER PROJECT. The...
