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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12 Feb 2025

EU CAP Network Seminar ‘On-farm demonstrations for peer-to-peer learning & innovation’

The EU CAP Network Seminar ‘On-farm demonstrations for peer-to-peer learning & innovation’ will take place from Tuesday 17 to Wednesday 18 June 2025.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Agricultural Productivity, Economic impacts (+2)
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07 Feb 2025

EU CAP Network Cross-visits 2025 - call for participating EIP-AGRI Operational Groups

Three EU CAP Network Cross-visits, each lasting 1.5 days, will take place in the week of 5 May 2025.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Agricultural Productivity, Climate and Climate Change (+5)
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16 Dec 2024

EU CAP Network cross-visits 2025 - call for hosting EIP-AGRI Operational Groups

Apply to become a host for one of the three new EU CAP Network cross-visits for Operational Groups.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Agricultural Productivity, Climate and Climate Change (+5)
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Upcoming events

Cross-visit

Cross Visits for Organic Agricultural Advisors across Europe

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Calendar
Education, Fostering Knowledge & Innovation (+1) In-person OrganicAdviceNetwork
Cross-visit

FOREST4EU European Horizon project - Study Visits 2025

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Calendar
Forestry, Fostering Knowledge & Innovation In-person GIS, Slovenian Forestry Institute (ITHub 1)
Focus group

Focus Group 'Local perennial plant genetic resources in view of climate change and biodiversity loss' - 2nd meeting

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Calendar
Agricultural Productivity, Climate and Climate Change (+1) In-person
Chania, Greece
EU CAP Network
Seminar

FUTURAL Policy Webinar: “Smarter, Stronger and More Competitive Rural Areas: The Way"

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Calendar
Fostering Knowledge & Innovation, Jobs, Growth and Equality in Rural Areas Online FUTURAL project
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Latest publications

Report - EU CAP Network conference ‘EIP-AGRI Operational Groups: Innovation in practice’
Event Reports |

EU CAP Network conference ‘EIP-AGRI Operational Groups: Innovation in practice’

This report presents the main results of the EU CAP Network conference 'EIP-AGRI Operational Groups: Innovation in practice', which was held from 6 to 8 May 2024 in Estoril, Portugal.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Networking, Fostering Knowledge & Innovation Portugal
Press article - An apple a day keeps climate change away
Press Articles |

An apple a day keeps climate change away

Traditional local apple varieties provide economic and environmental benefits for farmers.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Jobs, Growth and Equality in Rural Areas, Environment (+4)
Agrinnovation Magazine - Issue 11
Magazines |

Agrinnovation Magazine - Issue 11

The eleventh edition of the EU CAP Network’s annual Agrinnovation magazine highlights how robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies are transforming European agriculture, forestry and rural areas with new solutions.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Fostering Knowledge & Innovation, Sustainability (+1)
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Latest good practice

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Project | 11 Apr 2025

CAP fosters farm and forest habitat restoration, improved biodiversity, social engagement and knowledge dissemination in rural Ireland

  • CAP Implementation
Education, Environment (+3) Ireland
A field of green vegetables growing
Project | 09 Apr 2025

EIP Operational Group improves Polish farmer positions in vegetable value chains

  • CAP Implementation
Agricultural Productivity, AKIS (+11) Poland
Zamość
A close-up of a tree in an agroforestry system with crops growing around its base
Project | 08 Apr 2025

French agroforestry network strengthens skills for climate action

  • CAP Implementation
Climate and Climate Change, Education (+6) France
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