EIP-AGRI Workshop Enabling farmers for the digital age: Final report

On 26-27 April 2018 the European Commission’s DG Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) organised the EIP-AGRI Workshop ‘Enabling farmers for the digital age: the role of AKIS’. The event was organised in cooperation with the Latvian Rural Advisory and Training Centre. 94 delegates from 25 European countries met in Jurmala
(Latvia) to share experiences and inspiring cases, discuss needs and identify opportunities of fostering digitisation by Agricultural Innovation and Knowledge Systems (AKIS). The overall aim of the workshop was to explore and strengthen the role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems – AKIS (with a particular focus on advisers and rural networking), supporting the understanding and use of digital technologies at farm level. This final report gives an overview of what was discussed at the workshop.