We are pleased to invite you to an interactive panel discussion focusing on the multi-stakeholder activities of initiatives working in the field of sustainable soil management.
A special report on the EIP-AGRI initiative was recently published by the European Court of Auditors. Among other things, the report emphasizes that farmers and other implementation partners should keep being central to EIP-AGRI innovation projects. This is because projects that actively involved practitioners and addressed their practical needs were more likely to succeed and generate higher-quality innovations. To encourage the adoption of innovations that can benefit the broader agricultural sector, the report also claims that knowledge exchange and dissemination of key results is necessary. However, the striking conclusion of the report is that this area has remained largely untapped, limiting the impact of these projects.
The aim of this panel is to reflect on these observations by bringing together experiences from EIP AGRI Operational Groups (OGs) and Soil Mission living labs (LLs). OGs and LLs represent complementary but interconnected elements of Europe's innovation ecosystem. While OGs work on concrete problems identified by practitioners and develop practical solutions through structured collaboration between farmers, advisors, researchers, and businesses, LLs contribute methodological depth, real-life experimentation, and systemic approaches.
Although LLs and OGs originate from different policy frameworks-Horizon Europe and the EU CAP, respectively-they are fundamentally aligned through their shared use of the Multi-Actor Approach. This approach offers significant potential to accelerate soil-health innovations through strengthened synergies. A key pillar of these synergies is knowledge transfer: multidirectional flows of information from scientific research to farm practice and from farmer's knowledge back into science, policymaking, and innovation processes. Effective knowledge transfer in these settings is not limited to disseminating results, as it involves interactive peer-to-peer learning, joint reflection during field demonstrations, and structured facilitation to ensure that insights are captured, contextualized, and made accessible to diverse audiences.
The panel will represent flagship initiatives and showcase their concrete practical experiences on what makes knowledge exchange effective, how balanced collaboration is built, and how successful dissemination is done to reach broader audiences.
Agenda of the session
Keynote speech by Margarida Ambar from European CAP Network EIP-AGRI Support Facility.
Panel discussion with project representatives
Sonia Pietosi from Living Lab LILAS4SOILS
Anna Bagó Mas from Horizon thematic Network AQUAGRI-KNOW
Clara Amaro (from Horizon thematic network Soil-X-Change
We are pleased to invite you to an interactive panel discussion focusing on the multi-stakeholder activities of initiatives working in the field of sustainable soil management.
A special report on the EIP-AGRI initiative was recently published by the European Court of Auditors. Among other things, the report emphasizes that farmers and other implementation partners should keep being central to EIP-AGRI innovation projects. This is because projects that actively involved practitioners and addressed their practical needs were more likely to succeed and generate higher-quality innovations. To encourage the adoption of innovations that can benefit the broader agricultural sector, the report also claims that knowledge exchange and dissemination of key results is necessary. However, the striking conclusion of the report is that this area has remained largely untapped, limiting the impact of these projects.
The aim of this panel is to reflect on these observations by bringing together experiences from EIP AGRI Operational Groups (OGs) and Soil Mission living labs (LLs). OGs and LLs represent complementary but interconnected elements of Europe's innovation ecosystem. While OGs work on concrete problems identified by practitioners and develop practical solutions through structured collaboration between farmers, advisors, researchers, and businesses, LLs contribute methodological depth, real-life experimentation, and systemic approaches.
Although LLs and OGs originate from different policy frameworks-Horizon Europe and the EU CAP, respectively-they are fundamentally aligned through their shared use of the Multi-Actor Approach. This approach offers significant potential to accelerate soil-health innovations through strengthened synergies. A key pillar of th ...
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