Press Release / Coming up online July 20-22: 15-minute presentations and B2B meetings to connect innovators with Greeks working in the olive oil, olive, or grazed woodlands sectors who seek help addressing the challenges they face. Part of the ENI CBC Med EU-funded project called LIVINGAGRO, these free online talks and meetings will take place in Greek.
On the Praxi Network platform provided by Greece’s General Secretariat for Research, Greek inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs will briefly introduce a wide range of innovations that address the following topics:
- Intercropping in Olive Groves
- Precision Agriculture
- Machinery
- Health Benefit Determination
- Olive Tree and Olive Oil Authentication
- Preparation for Climate Change
- Re-using Traditional Practices in Agroforestry
More details about the innovations will be available shortly in a Catalogue of Innovations on the project’s web page. In addition to tuning in to the general presentations, interested stakeholders will be able to schedule one-to-one online meetings with individual innovators.
How can we get involved?
Farmers, millers, olive oil producers and bottlers, livestock breeders, distributors, nursery owners, lab technicians, territory managers, agronomists, wholesalers, olive oil company representatives, cooperative members, policy makers, and other interested individuals will soon be invited to register for the free online presentations and discussions with innovators.
While other project partners are working from their bases in Italy, Lebanon, and Jordan, the Greek part of the team is based at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh). For those unable to attend the July meetings, there will be additional presentations in Chania at a later date, most likely in a face-to-face format (conditions and regulations permitting). For more information, please email panagiot@maich.gr or call 28210 35030.
This B2B event was made possible by LIVINGAGRO, a project funded by the European Union under the ENI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme 2014-2020 with a total budget of 3,3 million euros (90% EU contribution and 10% National Funds).
What is LIVINGAGRO?
“LIVINGAGRO – Cross Border Living Laboratories for Agroforestry” is an EU-funded project that is dedicated to bringing together innovators and stakeholders for mutually beneficial collaborations based on living labs in two areas: multifunctional olive systems and grazed woodlands. These living labs involve closer collaboration between researchers and economic stakeholders, including Greek olive farmers, livestock breeders, and others in the olive, meat, and dairy sectors, than traditional projects.
What are LIVINGAGRO project partners doing?
Rather than simply doing research in isolated labs, scientists are asking farmers, company representatives, policy makers, and other stakeholders for input about the types of problems they need to solve, as well as the most workable solutions.
LIVINGAGRO team members have surveyed numerous stakeholders who work with olive oil and grazed woodlands to determine their needs. Many survey respondents indicated a desire to increase their product’s quality, improve plant health and/or soil fertility, reduce their production costs, increase the quantity produced, and reduce their use of chemical products. Innovations have been identified that can meet those needs as well as others. Later this month, innovators will be presenting potential solutions to challenges to interested members of the public, as well as inviting more comments about stakeholders’ needs.
This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union under the ENI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union or the Programme management structures.