project - Research and innovation
CAPSELLA Project - Collective Awareness Platform for Environmentally-sound Land Management based on Data Technologies and Agrobiodiversity
Objectives
CAPSELLA is developing information and communication technology (ICT) applications to address major ecological, societal, food quality and economic threats. The project aims to generate sustainability through scientific and local knowledge by building upon existing data set. One of the project's goal is to show farmers who are not very familiar with ICT how beneficial it would be to share open data not only to allow the project to deliver a catalogue of data to everyone, but would also illustrate the benefits of the agrobiodiversity domain.
Activities
Capsella, using a strong bottum up approach will collect farmers, communities and networks needs and requirements in order to develop tailored-made ICT-based solutions to promote innovative, knowledge-intensive farming systems and methods based on the optimization of local natural resources and on reduced use of external inputs. In this light, CAPSELLA will organise a series of networking events including its first awareness raising workshop on 30 & 31 May 2016 in Volterra (Pisa), hackatons and bootcamps. The event in Tuscany at the end of May aims at bringing together Northern and Southern EU farmers to collect and understand their ICT needs and requirements. The event will try to answer and provide solutions to them, exchange best practices and use cases and pave the way to exchange knowledge and future collaborations around the theme of agrobiodiversity. The event’s vibrant environment will be a stage where farming communities with different background (such as conventional and organic) but sharing the interest in agrobiodiversity, will openly discuss and compare their points of view.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Project acronym
- CAPSELLA
- Agricultural sectors
- Not relevant
1 Practice Abstracts
The project has also a social and sustainable idea. In fact, these ICT solutions will be validated in three pilots focusing on seeds, field and food. These pilots are planned to result in a series of incubation activities which will run in the last phase of the project, ending with the creation of start-ups.
Contacts
Giovanna CALABRÒ
g.calabro@zephyrcom.eu
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ATHENA/RC, Athens Greece
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Project partners
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Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies (ATHENA RC)
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Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Studi Universitati e di Perfezionamento (SSSA)
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Aston University / Aston Business School (AST)
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Agro-Know BVBA (AK)
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Rete Semi Rurali
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ZEPHYR s.r.l
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WE DELIVER TASTE
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Zuidelijke Land en Tuinbouw Organisatie – ZLTO– Den Bosch – Netherlands
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