INNO-4-AGRIFOOD- Capitalising the full potential of on-line collaboration for SMEs innovation support in the Agri-Food ecosystem

Acronym: INNO-4-AGRIFOOD

Implementation period: 01/03/2016 - 31/08/2018

GA number: 681482

Type of Project: Horizon 2020

Internet presentation: www.inno4agrifood.eu

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Project aim: INNO-4-AGRIFOOD is dedicated to supporting and stimulating online collaboration for innovation amongst the more than 11 million SMEs active within the European Agri-food ecosystem, by offering them completely novel and free-of-charge innovation support services, tools and e-training courses.

 

About the project: INNO-4-AGRIFOOD will deliver a new generation of innovation support services that will assist European SMEs across the vast Agri-food ecosystem to create value from on-line collaboration for innovation, access a broader range of potential innovation partners beyond their national and sectoral borders and timely mobilise them to seize opportunities to launch concrete innovation projects. INNO-4-AGRIFOOD services will be provided by properly qualified and well-trained innovation support specialists and appropriately escalate to respond to the diverse needs and characteristics of agri-food SMEs. They will be platform-independent and supported by a suite of smart ICT tools based on well-established and mainstream web-technologies. In order to equip the staff of innovation intermediaries across Europe with the expertise and skill-set required to deliver its novel innovation support services, INNO-AGRIFOOD will develop a qualification profile that will be complemented with a dedicated curriculum as well as a series of e-training courses provided via an interactive e-learning environment. The development, testing and validation of all project outcomes will take into account the needs of agri-food SMEs and their innovation intermediaries both of which will be effectively integrated along with agri-food stakeholders into a co-creating process to generate demand-driven, desirable and sustainable project outcomes.

 

INNO-4-AGRIFOOD is implemented by a multidisciplinary and well-balanced consortium that encompasses key collective European agri-food associations, major European networks and SME agencies, leading actors that run FIWARE agri-food accelerators’ communities and Living Labs and a specialized media, e-curriculum and e-training developer.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 681482.

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