Objectives
Many dairy farms, even well-functioning ones, have unused potential to improve the health and welfare of their cows, heifers and calves. There is a large body of scientific knowledge that would be useful in the development of solutions, but only little of that knowledge is available to ordinary farmers. In this project, we will first develop a learning environment utilising virtual reality technology, and then we will make it available, free iof cost, to Finnish farmers, agricultural schools, veterinarians, advisors and inspectors.
Activities
Year 2022: Carrying out a literature study, carrying out a survey among end-users on existing levels of knowledge, planning content with end-users, preliminary VR recordings on farms, planning technological aspects of production, and communication to stakeholders and media. - Year 2023: VR recordings on farms, programming of VR software including interactions, infographics, narrative etc., testing of VR software on selected panels of end users, refining it and testing again in a few iterations, finalising the software, communication to stakeholders and media. - Year 2024: Publishing the VR software and distributing it in VR headsets, with extensive communication to stakeholders and media.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014FI06RDRP001 Manner-Suomen maaseudun kehittämisohjelma 2014-2020
Emplacement
- Main geographical location
- Helsinki-Uusimaa
- Other geographical location
- Etelä-Pohjanmaa, Kanta-Häme
EUR 292 298.00
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
Project keyword
Ressources
Audiovisual Material
1 Practice Abstracts
Many dairy farms, even well-functioning ones, have unused potential to improve the health and welfare of their cows, heifers and calves. There is a large body of scientific knowledge that would be useful in the development of solutions, but only little of that knowledge is available to ordinary farmers. In this project, we will first develop a learning environment utilising virtual reality technology, and then we will make it available, free iof cost, to Finnish farmers, agricultural schools, veterinarians, advisors and inspectors.
Contacts
Project coordinator
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Arador Innovations Ltd
Project coordinator
Project partners
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Armenta Benessi
Project partner
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Finnish Centre for Animal Welfare
Project partner
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KorpiFarmi
Project partner
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Liukkalan luomutila
Project partner
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Picnus
Project partner
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Teatime Research
Project partner