Report - Research needs from practice

Many research results are only slowly translated into practical appli- cations, or not at all. In addition, professionals such as farmers and foresters may have the impression that research does not meet their needs. Identifying 'research needs from practice' can help solve this, by facilitating dialogue between researchers and those that can use research results in practice.

The 'Support Facility for Innovation and Knowledge exchange | EIP- AGRI' collects research needs from practice during workshops, seminars, Focus Group (FG) meetings and other networking activities, through activity reports of agricultural or forestry organisations. Research needs were also collected via a dedicated online form on the EIP-AGRI website.

The collected research needs from practice were published on the EIP-AGRI website. All research needs will in the future be published and become searchable on the EU CAP Network website. By making the research needs visible via the EU CAP Network website, anyone with an interest in the same issue, including researchers, farmers or other practitioners, can review them and provide an answer to the identified problems. Interested parties can also decide to take up a question and try to solve it, for instance by setting up an innovative project with other partners.

The collected research needs will also become visible to national and regional policy makers and authorities, who may decide to take up specific topics in their calls for innovative projects. Information from the research needs also feeds into the programming of European Research and Innovation activities.