Social Farming and Innovations
How can social farming contribute to innovation in agriculture while strengthening the multi-functional role of agriculture and connecting people from urban and rural areas?
Tasks
- Collect and highlight good practices and inspiring success stories in social farming, which have been set up on farms.
- Identify challenges and opportunities to develop social farming models, including business models, and ways to strengthen the links between agriculture and social/health care sectors, education and employment sectors and between urban and rural people.
- Explore how social farming could bring innovation into farms and how it could benefit users and the surrounding communities.
- Identify the factors and needs to support social farming and how to build or strengthen the innovation through social farming activities.
- Propose potential innovative actions and ideas for Operational Groups and other innovative projects
- Identify research needs coming from practice and possible gaps in knowledge
Focus Group members
Surname |
First name |
Profession |
Country |
Albers |
Jelle |
Other |
Netherlands |
Brito |
Olga |
Farmer |
Portugal |
Dejonckheere |
Nele |
Adviser |
Belgium |
Dreer |
Johannes |
Adviser |
Germany |
Dziasek |
Elżbieta |
Civil servant |
Poland |
Elings |
Marjolein |
Researcher |
Netherlands |
Galasso |
Angela |
Adviser |
Italy |
Hubaux |
Samuel |
Working at an NGO |
Belgium |
Hudcová |
Eliška |
Researcher |
Czech Republic |
Moudrý |
Jan |
Researcher |
Czech Republic |
NAVARRO |
ISMAEL |
Farmer |
Spain |
O'Dowd |
Colm |
Farmer |
Ireland |
Pálsdóttir |
AnnaMaría |
Researcher |
Sweden |
Partalidou |
Maria |
Researcher |
Greece |
Signoriello |
Ilaria |
Other |
Italy |
Smyth |
Brian |
Working at an NGO |
Ireland |
Thiery |
Damien |
Farmer |
Romania |
Torquati |
Biancamaria |
Researcher |
Italy |
van Elsen |
Thomas |
Researcher |
Germany |
Yrjas |
Christer |
Adviser |
Sweden |
Facilitation team
Moroney |
Aisling |
Coordinating Expert |
Ireland |
Lombardo |
Stefania |
Task-Manager |
Italy |
Verwimp |
Bavo |
Task-Manager |
Belgium |
Guimarey Fernández |
Beatriz |
Co-task Manager |
Spain |
Access the collaborative area (only for members)