Horizon Europe project QuantiFarm was launched on July 5th & 6th, 2022 in Piraeus, Greece, where 32 partners from a wide range of sectors, including farmers, advisors and scientific research institutions, were brought together from 20 different countries across all Europe: Finland, Greece, Bulgaria, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, France, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Serbia, Cyprus, Switzerland, and the UK! The meeting was organised as a hybrid meeting, both online and at a conference room, to give all members the opportunity to participate, despite Covid-19 special circumstances.
The 32 project partners that constitute the consortium pooled their resources, everyone bringing their own experience and knowledge to the project, and are ready to unfold a 3.5 year plan towards assessing the impact of digital agriculture solutions byte by byte!
However, the mission QuantiFarm aims to accomplish is pretty ambitious: to tell European farmers the truth about using digital technologies (DATs) and the huge impact they have compared to traditional farming methods. “But to tell the truth one has to first discover it”, as the Project Coordinator Dr. Nikolaos Marianos highlighted, during the Kick-off meeting. For this reason, QuantiFarm is well equipped and has planned in detail 30 experiments/test cases covering all European bioclimatic regions and sectors that equally represent the European diversity.
Led by GAIA EPICHΕREIN, the consortium’s goal is to offer a set of open and reusable tools and training services that will help our farmers discover the truth on their own, in their own pace and, ultimately, modernise farming.
The Kick-off meeting is only the beginning of the 42 upcoming months, filled with events, updates and activities!
