Contact day FarmDemo Conference 2022

Sharing innovation for sustainable agriculture

Programme

08:45 - Welcome - Coffee
9:15 - Opening speech EU-AGRI Commissionner - TBC
9:30 - Opening speech Representative of the European Committee of the Regions
Or Representative of the EU Parliament
9:40 - Opening speech The expectation of the European Commission regarding demo farms Inge Van Oost (DG-Agri)
10:50 - DEPHY : a pioneer network of demo farms for less pesticides Representative of the French Ministry of Agriculture

10:00 - Break

10.25 - Mentimeter (feedback from the audience)
10.35 - FARM DEMO projects: main findings and activities Adrien Guichaoua & Nicolas Munier Jolain
10:55 - Tools and decision support for IPM demo farms Neil Paveley
11:05 - Round table - Hub coach : a new approach for strategical advice, facilitation and support of peer-to-peer learning Hub Coaches from NEFERTITI and IPMWORKS networks
11:35 - Round table - Demo Farmers - The added value of demonstration, peer to peer learning and European Networks for farmers Farmers from NEFERTITI and IPMWORKS networks
12:05 - Round table - Policy makers Role of networks of demo farms to promote the general adoption of sustainable farming practices - 1 or 2 regions, 1 Ministry, DG-Agri

12:30 - Lunch break – Poster session
Posters from NEFERTITI, IPMWORKS, IPM DECISIONS

14:00 - Workshops - 3 sessions
Free choice of parallel rooms:

  • Results of the DEPHY network
  • Pan-European decision support platform for IPM
  • The Farm Demo Training Kit
  • Lessons learned on Farm Demonstrations and recommendations for AKIS
  • Farm Demo platform and Youtube channel : when digital boost learning
  • Virtual Demonstration Events: a learning solution in time of sanitary crisis

16.00 - Mentimeter (feedback on the workshops)
16:10 - What is next? Future of networks of Demo farms - Jean Baptiste Dollé (Coordinator of Climate Farm Demo) - TBC + 3 Coordinators
16:35 - Closing word – the view of an external witness Representative of CEJA - TBC
16:45 - End of the conference

Europa

NEFERTITI has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 772705
IPMWORKS has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101000339.
IPM Decisions has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 817617.