EIP-AGRI seminar: New skills for digital farming

The EIP-AGRI seminar “New skills for digital farming" took place on 5-6 February 2020 in Aranjuez, Spain.

The seminar aimed to contribute to the design and implementation of approaches and tools that can help farmers and farm advisers develop the skills they need in the face of the digital transition in agriculture. 

All information and updates will be posted on this page.

Presentations (in the order of the programme)

Day 1: Wednesday 5 February 2020

• Word clouds

• Emily Gray - Skills for digital farming: needs, opportunities and challenges ahead
• Ethan Cleary - Digital agriculture technology - adoption and attitudes

• Poster presentations - Farmer videos

Day 2: Thursday 6 February 2020

• Doris Marquardt - Selected survey results on the uptake of precision agriculture technologies (preliminary results)
• Full presentation 'Developing skills for digitalisation: An inspirational Journey'
• Individual presentations:
  • Lotte Ipsen- Bygholm agricultural college, DK
  • Miguel Cordero - Erasmus+ SFATE
  • Tetiana Pavlenko - Hohenheim University, DE; Educating for Technology Take-off
  • Hubert Gerhardy - EIP-AGRI Operational Group 'Pig health lern-netzwerk', DE
  • Jürgen Vangeyte - Living Lab, ILVO, Flanders
  • George Beers - Horizon 2020 SmartAgriHubs
  • Tom Kelly - Teagasc, IE - Horizon 2020 FAIRShare
  • Thomas Engel - John Deere, DE
  • Beatrice Dingli - VIVEA - Blended digital training
  • Gintare Kucinskiene - EIP-AGRI Operational Group 'Gate of innovations', LT
  • Hercules Panoutsopoulos - Horizon 2020 EURAKNOS & EUREKA

Seminar documents

• Final programme
• Participants list
• Speaker bios
• Posters
• Final report