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Webinar Participation and Engagement

The AgRimate Project participated in the “Innovative Practices for a Sustainable European Agrisector” webinar, held on the 8th of July (2025), and hosted by F6S. This event focused on disseminating complementary insights and practices related to sustainable agriculture fostered by European financing, creating synergies between European projects, while also sharing knowledge and creating awareness among other stakeholders.

AgRimate was presented by Leire Bastida, the contact point for the project’s consortium partner TECNALIA. An overview of the state of the project was exposed, as well as its goals and mission, with a special focus on the objective of actively contributing to the European Union’s overarching goals of digital transformation, environmental sustainability, and socio-economic equity in agriculture, through the modernization of pruning. 

The target audience

The webinar aimed to bring together a diverse audience, representing different types of stakeholders, such as: Other European projects and programmes, in order to build bridges for future synergies and ensure that the collaborative initiatives get the deserved recognition; Universities and research institutions, considering that this event was a fantastic opportunity to share knowledge based on technical findings from each project, encouraging ties with specific academic and research communities; and SMEs/the private sector, with the goal of raising awareness about the innovations being developed on each project, as well as highlighting exciting opportunities to join these efforts, through open calls in projects like NOSTRADAMUS and INNO4CFIs.

The discussions truly highlighted how data is becoming the backbone of a more productive and targeted agriculture. Technologies like sensors, augmented reality, and robotics are no longer sci-fi – they’re tools to empower farmers. But it’s not just about gadgets, it’s also about practices and policies. We delved into approaches like agroforestry, carbon farming, and paludiculture. When these technologies and practices combine, they become powerful tools, leveraging data to maximize climate change mitigation through enhanced carbon sequestration, boost biodiversity, and build genuinely resilient agricultural systems.

Tackled topics and Speakers

The webinar, hosted by Felipe Taylor (F6S), featured presentations on several agricultural innovation projects. Giulia Berni (PLANET) discussed INNO4CFIs, a project with 20 partners promoting carbon farming and nature-based business models through technologies like AI and satellite, with four Livinghubs across Europe. 

Ioannis Varvaris (ERATOSTHENES) presented NOSTRADAMUS, focusing on data-driven decision-making for sustainable agriculture, and Leire Bastida (TECNALIA) detailed AgRimate‘s work regarding AI, AR, and robotics to improve efficiency and working conditions for smallholder farmers in vineyards and olive groves, mentioning solutions like the exoskeleton and the robot for pruning. 

Päivi Merilä (Luke), coordinator for PaluWise, highlighted its 50-hectare demonstration sites for converting degraded peatlands to paludiculture and its focus on site setup, benefits, and upscaling. 

Anne-Florence Harpon (F6S) briefly introduced REGILIENCE, centered on stakeholder engagement in climate adaptation and resilience, including a citizen survey ran in Macedonia. 

The session concluded with a roundtable and Q&A, where projects acknowledged shared challenges, discussed paludiculture’s validity, and noted AgRimate’s ground-level testing with farmers, leading to positive feedback.

You can find more details of the event on the F6S event page.

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Participating Projects

INNO4CFIs – “Nature-Based Business Model and Emerging INNOvations to enhance Carbon Farming Initiatives (CFIs) while preserving Biodiversity, Water Security and Soil Health” has a twofold objective: 1. to promote reforestation practices to increase CO2 uptake while promoting crucial environmental co-benefits such as sustainable freshwater production, dry-land and soil restoration and biodiversity promotion 2. Engaging highly innovative technologies promoted by SMEs located in i3-eligible countries (EU27) through an acceleration programme developed within a platform.

The NOSTRADAMUS project aims to build a scalable platform for real-time agricultural data collection and analysis, supporting the Farm to Fork strategy, Common Agricultural Policy, and European data strategy. By automating data handling and processing satellite data for real-time mapping, the project will create open-source digital tools for farmers using edge computing, IoT, and Earth Observation data. These tools will help farmers optimize operations, improve yields, and reduce resource use, enhancing sustainability and competitiveness. Nostradamus will also engage stakeholders through workshops and training to ensure the solutions are practical and widely adopted.

REGILIENCE project aims to support cities and regions in their efforts towards building climate-resilient pathways, following a demand-driven approach and bearing in mind the expertise and knowledge acquired, as well as the solutions available from Innovation Packages and other sources.

PaluWise pioneers paludiculture, the productive use of wet peatlands, to cut GHG emissions by up to 80% and boost biodiversity. We showcase best practices at 4 large-scale European demo sites (FI, NL, PL, UK) with diverse value chains. Our aim is to develop step-by-step tools for establishing paludiculture and recommend policies for industrial-scale deployment, transforming degraded organic soils into thriving, climate-smart landscapes for a sustainable future.