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AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION SYSTEMS SWG (SCAR AKIS)

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Mission and aims

 

 

 

 

Co-chairs:

Mandate:

6th mandate (01/01/2023 until 31/12/2024)

Members:

29 countries + EC and key advisors

Overview members SCAR AE – update March 2022

 

 

akis-lampMission 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.