AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION SYSTEMS SWG (SCAR AKIS)
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Mission and aims
Co-chairs:
- Anikó JUHÁSZ, Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Budapest, Hungary
- Pascal Bergeret, Regional Directorate for the Occitanie Region, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, France
Mandate:
01/01/2020 - 31/12/2023 (extended with 2 years because of COVID-19)
Members:
29 countries + EC and key advisors
Overview members SCAR AE – update March 2022
Mission of the SCAR AKIS
- To build an EU-wide knowledge and innovation network focusing specifically on working with and for farmers
Objectives
- Improving the functioning of knowledge and innovation systems in the bioeconomy.
- Pursuing the outcomes of all foresight studies to stimulate appropriate research and innovation activities, knowledge generation and knowledge exchange.
- Covering all agri-food and biomass chains, from producer to consumer, in a systemic approach.
Planned activities
- Focus on improving the functioning of knowledge and innovation systems in the bioeconomy.
- Achieve greater impact of the Multi-Actor Approach (MAA) implementation in EU AKIS.
- Define the role of education in EU AKIS.
- Define the role of digitisation and E-infrastructures in knowledge exchange.
- Define the role of social innovation and inclusiveness in EU AKIS.