The Moredun Foundation is owned and governed by farmers and is one of the largest livestock charities in the UK, working to promote the highest standards of health and welfare of animals through research and education. The Moredun Foundation governs the work of the Moredun Research Institute to conduct internationally recognised research on the infectious diseases of livestock to help find solutions for major challenges to modern farming such as the consequences of a changing climate; ensuring safe and sustainable food and water supplies conserving biodiversity and finding solutions to infectious diseases. Today, many of the veterinary medicines and vaccines that are routinely used on farm have either been researched, developed or tested at Moredun. More information: www.moredun.org.uk

Project contact: Fiona Kenyon (fiona.kenyon@moredun.ac.uk)

Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) is subject to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food as an administrative agency with special authorization and its own supervisory board. The goal of the Institute is to contribute to food security, sustainable resource management, innovation and value creation through research and knowledge production within food, forestry and other biobased industries. NIBIO delivers research, managerial support and knowledge for use in national preparedness, as well as for businesses and the society at large. Approximately 700 employees are present in all parts of the country. The main office is located at Ås in Akershus, just outside Oslo. More information: www.nibio.no

Network Facilitator and project contact: Lise Grøva (lise.grova@nibio.no)

Debreceni Egyetem (UNIDEB) Hungary

UNIDEB is the oldest, continously operating higher education institution in Hungary. Today, the University of Debrecen carries out its agricultural training, research and development activities in three organizational units: the Faculty of Agriculture, Food Science and Environmental Management (MÉK), the Faculty of Economics (GTK) and the Institutes for Agricultural Research and Educational Farm (AKIT). Research activities of the Institutes for Agricultural Research and Educational Farm involve the entire agricultural sector. Research is carried out on the field of animal husbandry, crop production, horticulture, environmental management, nature conservation, wildlife management, food science, quality assurance and natural sciences. At the Kismacsi Animal Husbandry Experimental Farm, gene conservation, breeding and production activities are carried out in parallel with the practical training. In the field of animal husbandry, the research area is the genetic analysis of hairy and shaggy wool sheep in order to stabilize the national herd. The Faculty of Agriculture, Food Science and Environmental Management – adapting to today’s scientific challenges – formulates both its training and research activities according to the circular bio-economy model, which is based on the recycling of materials and values, by increasing the added value of the produced product,  through services and smart solutions. It is especially important for us to maintain a wide-ranging system of professional and economic relations with the enterprises of the region, which, on the one hand, provides the conditions for practical training and, on the other hand, helps to utilize the scientific results created at the University. Our undergraduate and master’s programs, our talent management colleges, and our doctoral schools all play a decisive role in higher agricultural education and scientific supply.

More information: mek.unideb.hu | akit.unideb.hu

Network Facilitator and project contact: Orsyola Nagi (orsinagy21@gmail.com)

Agricultural Research Organisation of Israel, and PLF lab, Israel

Located at the Volcani Center campus in Bet-Dagan, near Tel-Aviv, ARO’s six institutes are responsible for Plant Sciences, Animal Science, Plant Protection, Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, and Postharvest and Food Sciences. ARO also operates four research stations, in various parts of the country, and serves as a testing center for agricultural produce and equipment. Israel’s Gene Bank for Agricultural Crops is also located on the ARO Volcani Center campus.

The Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) Lab, is a research unit at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering of the Agriculture Research Organization.

While encompassing the full range of agricultural research activities, the PLF lab focuses in particular on developing PLF management concepts and their associated monitoring technologies (sensors) for farmed animals (dairy, sheep, goats, poultry, and aquaculture).

The lab’s researchers and close and long-standing relationships with Israeli students, engineers and technicians and their counterparts in Europe, the US, Australia and elsewhere; and with Israeli technological and agricultural companies. The laboratory implements its vision through excellence in research and development, to help Israel to continue achieving one of the highest levels of agricultural output in the world.  More Information: PLF

Network Facilitator : Alon Bar-Shamai (alonb@volcani.agri.gov.il)

Project contact: Ilan Halachmi (halachmi@volcani.agri.gov.il)

In Extenso Innovation Croissance (IEIC), France is a French entity specialized in innovation management, it is specialized in supporting the development of innovative projects and represents a team of 100 consultants with backgrounds in both engineering and marketing/finance. For the last 16 years, In Extenso Innovation Croissance have built a strong experience and expertise in innovation management, thanks to its partnerships with startups, incubators, accelerators, public clusters, etc. Since innovation management is the core of its DNA, IEIC is able to deal with all the data available on different markets and to evaluate a specific innovative project in its own environment, in order to estimate the valuation of a technology or innovative product or service. More information: www.inextenso-innovation.fr

Project contact: Benjamin Lopez (benjamin.lopez@inextenso-innovation.fr)