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AKIS in action: Diversifying farm income – Providing advice and training for new energy solutions
This session showcases how alternative and renewable energy solutions can create new income opportunities for farmers. It will highlight advisory and training approaches that support farmers in adopting agrivoltaics, developing small-scale biomass systems, and integrating climate-smart energy models into their businesses. Together, these insights demonstrate how AKIS actors can empower farmers to turn energy into…
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AKIS in action: Can AKIS interventions help farmers improve their income through direct marketing?
Farmers often capture only a small share of the value created in agricultural supply chains due to market structures that disadvantage small producers and the highly fragmented nature of farming. To address these challenges, this event highlights how targeted AKIS advisory services and networking initiatives can empower farmers to build income enhancing strategies and strengthen…
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AKIS International Conference
The modernAKIS project is pleased to announce the first AKIS International Conference, taking place in Budapest, Hungary on 22 October 2025. We invite you to join this event, which will offer a dynamic platform for reflection, discussion, and knowledge exchange on how Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) can adapt and thrive within the framework…
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AKIS in Action: Fostering Knowledge flow and innovation: Aligning research with practice needs – Second Session
Join us for the second session of this event, where we’ll explore how research can achieve real-world impact through multi-actor and co-creation approaches, bridging science and practice. In this context, the event will also address the challenges faced by researchers in initiating co-creation processes and fostering collaboration. In addition, multi-actor and co-creation approaches including Knowledge…
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AKIS in Action: Fostering Knowledge Flow and Innovation – Aligning Research with Practice Needs
Join us for an insightful event within the WoW series (Webinars on Wednesdays), hosted by modernAKIS and ATTRACTISS. We’ll explore how research can achieve real-world impact through multi-actor and co-creation approaches, bridging science, and practice. The event will also address the challenges researchers face in initiating co-creation and fostering collaboration. This event is divided into two parts. The first session…
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AKIS in action: Raising Awareness of Farmer’s Role in the Agri-Food Supply Chain
The “AKIS in action” networking event series aims to interconnect AKIS actors across Europe. It provides practice-ready examples on how AKIS measures, knowledge and innovations are used to create value for different actors. Farmers play the main role in ensuring the sustainability and resilience of the agri-food supply chain. However, their contributions are often undervalued.…
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AKIS in action: Strengthening AKIS through women-led innovation
This Event is a Networking Event by FLIARA & modernAKIS. Women are one of the driving forces in agriculture and make a crucial contribution to sustainable development. With this event, we want to emphasize the central role of women and their innovation power in AKIS and raise awareness of their influence and value in the…
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AKIS in Action: Powering up advisors’ knowledge through peer exchange
The “AKIS in action” networking event series aims to interconnect AKIS actors across Europe. It provides practice-ready examples on how AKIS measures, knowledge and innovations are used to create value for different actors. The future of farming and forestry relies heavily on knowledge, with research, innovation, and knowledge sharing being crucial to realizing the ambitious…
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AKIS in action: Digital Repositories – Bridging Research and Practice
The future of farming and forestry relies heavily on knowledge, with research, innovation, and knowledge sharing being crucial to realizing the ambitious EU policy goals of the Farm to Fork Strategy and the European Green Deal. However, there is a pressing need to enhance the exchange of knowledge between scientific research and practical application. This…
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Online Workshop: Roadmap to exploitation
The upcoming online workshop, “Roadmap to Exploitation: Empowering AKIS Coordination Bodies,” is taking place on September 25, 2024, from 10:00 to 12:00 CET. Workshop Objectives: This session is designed to offer essential guidelines and strategies for enhancing the individual exploitation plans of AKIS Coordination Bodies across Member States, specifically in relation to the modernAKIS project…
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AKIS in action: Modernization of agriculture
Innovation plays a key role in achieving the European Green Deal’s vision and objectives. It is also a central tenant of the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS), which focuses on multi-actor-driven innovation and strong networks aiming to produce science-based but practically usable and scalable innovations. Only by bringing new ideas into practice and helping…
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AKIS in action | How to enhance knowledge flows between research and practice
Join us for a transformative event centered on enhancing knowledge flows between research and practice. This event is dedicated to exploring knowledge co-production – the collaborative knowledge generation by researchers together with other stakeholders. Deep dive into the mechanisms that facilitate researchers’ engagement in knowledge co-production, as well as common challenges faced in practice. Participants…
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AKIS in action Improving farmers’ position in the food value chain
The modernAKIS project is organizing a series of networking events, aiming to bring together experts from all over Europe to share experiences and feature engaging showcases of real-life successful examples. Learn from and exchange with peers as they share their practical insights and strategies for success! It is our pleasure to invite you to the…
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III Meeting of the modernAKIS National Community (Spain)
On Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 10:00 a.m., the Spanish CoP of ModernAKIS National Community of Practice met for the third time online. The agenda for the meeting was: 1. Opening of the CoP. Presentation of the attendees | Juan Pedro Romero Trueba, MAP 2. What’s new in ModernAKIS | Rebeca Díez Barca, FEUGA 3.…
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AKIS in support of the environmental and climate ambition of the CAP
In agriculture, the need for sustainable practices to combat climate change has never been more pressing. Recently, the “AKIS in action” networking event, organised by modernAKIS, shed light on how AKIS measures are actively supporting climate change mitigation efforts. The event brought together about 200 participants from all over Europe to explore the environmental and…
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Insights | AKIS CBs General Assembly
In a gathering on November 7th and 8th, 2023, AKIS Coordination Bodies (CBs) met in Zagreb, Croatia, marking another activity in the evolution of AKIS in Europe. The overarching objectives of the General Assembly included a deep dive into peer-to-peer and best practice exchanges, knowledge flow dynamics, setting the learning agenda for 2024, and fostering…
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modernAKIS network event | Kaspars Žūriņš
Bringing together 250 participants from Europe, the inaugural “AKIS in action” networking event aimed to accelerate innovation and knowledge exchange within the AKIS framework. In this video, Kaspars Žūriņš from the Latvian Advisory and Training Centre rounded up the experience reports by presenting the implementation of demonstration farms in Latvia, showcasing cutting-edge agricultural practices. These…
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modernAKIS network event | Florian Herzog
The first “AKIS in action” networking event saw 250 participants from across Europe converging to accelerate innovation and knowledge flows within the AKIS framework. In this video, Florian Herzog from the Austrian Chamber of Agriculture exemplified the power of commitment and ownership in driving forward a high-impact series of events to “Speed Up Innovation”, fostering…
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modernAKIS network event | Marleen Gysen
The inaugural “AKIS in action” networking event united 250 participants from across Europe, fostering a convergence of ideas and expertise to accelerate innovation and knowledge flows in AKIS. In this video, you can watch Marleen Gysen from Borenbond presenting an inspirational bus-trip as a method to link farmers, advisors, researchers and policy makers in the…
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modernAKIS network event | 29th November 2023
On 29 November 2023, we held a networking event with the aim of Accelerating Innovation and Knowledge Flows: A Recap of the inspiring networking event “AKIS in Action” delivered by the modernAKIS project. In a convergence of ideas and expertise, the first “AKIS in action” networking event brought together 250 enthusiastic participants from all over…
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modernAKIS coaching sessions | May 2023 | Copenhagen, Denmark, and Zagreb, Croatia
In May 2023, two modernAKIS coaching sessions were held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Zagreb, Croatia. The sessions were organised by modernAKIS partners Landwirschaftskammer Österreich (LKÖ, Austria) and Innovatiesteunpunt (ISP, Belgium) and attended by partners from Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Croatia, Austria, Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria and Greece. The objective of these coaching sessions was to support partners…
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modernAKIS Kick-Off Meeting
It is the vision of the modernAKIS project that the AKIS approach will become an indispensable and effective tool for all actors in the EU MS’ agri-food systems to develop sustainable, climate change proof and multifunctional forms of agriculture and resource use. Embracing the AKIS approach will contribute to removing institutional barriers to the needed…
