Projects of University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
Crossborder Development Platform for Smart and Precise Agriculture and Agripreneurship Advancement
| Status | In progress |
|---|---|
| Acronym | CROSSMART |
| Summary | The technological changes affect all economic flows and sectors and drive innovative ways of performing traditional economic activities, including agriculture. The need for greater use of agricultural technology has been viewed as the most important strategic priority. In rural areas of the region, unfavourable demographic trends and age structure resulted in lack of labour force and resistance to new technologies implementation. Besides, co-Operation between public, R&D and BS institutions and agripreneurs, as well as transfer of knowledge are not at satisfying level, causing lack of awareness of technical innovations and consequently lower efficiency. Project overall objective is to develop and enhance agripreneur’s innovation capacities and to improve their access to advanced technologies. The objective will be achieved and common territorial challenges addressed through establishment of CROSSMART platform. The platform will improve regional cooperation between public, R&D and BS institutions and agripreneurs and enhance agripreneurs innovation capacities through trainings, individual counselling and mentoring, and joint pilot actions, enabling testing and development of new technologies and products and improving production processes. Agripreneurs will be introduced to precise and smart agriculture solutions and the benefits of its use in order to remove their resistance and encourage them to implement advanced technologies. Beside CROSSMART platform, following project outputs will be produced: farm management software, joint pilot action, through which precise and smart agriculture solutions have been tested on a sample of economically important crops, implemented; joint CROSSMART solution (action plan) deriving from implemented joint pilot action. Moreover within the project 16 training programmes for agripreneurs and 5 study/knowledge transfer visits will be organised, 3 studies and guidelines for the agriculture and rural development prepared and 6 PPs trained (through “train the trainers” programme) on precise and smart agriculture solutions. All PPs and agripreneurs from the region will have direct benefits and general public/citizens indirect benefit from produced outputs. |
| Line of financing |
Interreg VI-A IPA Hrvatska Bosna i Hercegovina Crnaa Gora EFRR ESIF |
| Duration | 01.09.2024. - 28.02.2027. |
| Budget amount | 1.341.118,61 EUR |
| AFZ role in project | Partner |
| Web page | https://crossmart.eu/ |