Fostering Knowledge & Innovation
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Fostering Knowledge & Innovation

Knowledge exchange, cooperation and innovation are essential for smart and sustainable agriculture, forestry and rural areas to deal with challenges such as climate change.

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23 Jun 2026

Apply for the EU CAP Network brokerage event 'From practice to impact: building Horizon Europe collaborations for agriculture and rural areas'

The call for expressions of interest for the EU CAP Network brokerage event 'From practice to impact: building Horizon Europe collaborations for agriculture and rural areas' is open until 14 August.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
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22 Jun 2026

Call for three new EU CAP Network Focus Groups now open

Forest wildfires, on-farm fertiliser strategies, and protection for fruit orchards: apply to the call for Focus Group experts by 31 July 2026.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Plants growing
03 Jun 2026

Ad-hoc national expert group meeting 2026

The online ad-hoc expert group meeting on 9 June 2026 will contribute to the preparatory work of three new Focus Groups. A call for national experts is open until 3 June 2026.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI

Upcoming events

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Bluefish and garum festival

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
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EU Agri-Hackathon

  • CAP Implementation
  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
  • Evaluation
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Latest publications

Multi-source digital pest surveillance in citrus fruit for more sustainable crop protection
Press Articles |

Multi-source digital pest surveillance in citrus fruit for more sustainable crop protection

Farmers in Cyprus are using a cloud platform which combines satellite and field data to help improve decision-making in citrus fruit production, leading to significant reductions in pesticide applications.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Ongoing evaluation of the programme 'National Network of Germany, 2015-2024'
Member State Evaluation |

Ongoing evaluation of the programme 'National Network of Germany, 2015-2024'

The ongoing evaluation of the National Rural Network (NRN) of Germany (2015-2024) finds that implementation in 2022 was on time and on target, with strong networking, knowledge transfer and communication activities led by the German National Network.

  • Evaluation
Second Evaluation of Good Practices: Phases of Structuring and Observation (D2.1)
Member State Evaluation |

Evaluation of best practice projects from Tuscany, 2014-2022 RDP, second catalogue

This is the second evaluation of best practices, produced for the 2014-2022 Rural Development Programme (RDP) of Tuscany (Italy). A catalogue of best practices is produced with the aim of highlighting the most significant projects and those which have achieved the best results.

  • Evaluation

Latest good practice

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Project | 09 Jul 2026

Handicraft digi lab in Slovenia

  • CAP Implementation
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