AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION SYSTEMS SWG (SCAR AKIS)

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Mission and aims

Co-chairs:

Jan van Esch: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ewa Grodzka: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Mandate:

January 2028

Members:

29 countries + EC and key advisors

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.