VIRTUAL -3D AGRI-STAGE LL PROGRAMME - KA3 - Agreement n LLP IT-KA3- KA3MP Charalampos ThanopoulosDr. Nikos Manouselis Agricultural ExpertR&D Director April 10th, 2012 Naples, Italy

Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy Agro-Know Technologies, 17 Grammou str., Athens, Greece Agro-Know Technologies team consisted of people with experience in the following research domains: Computer Science Computer Engineering Agricultural Biotechnology Plant Science Social & Management Sciences Business Administration

About us  Research-oriented SME  Knowledge-intensive technology innovation for agriculture and rural development  agricultural knowledge organization  Deployment and testing in various fields  education & training, commerce, public administration  Active in international standardisation efforts (AIMS, EU CEN)  Capacity building and networking events for agricultural stakeholders Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

Recent relevant liaisons WACOM: WAter COmpetences Model Transfer Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy eCOTOOL: Developing and Harmonising VET Certificates CerOrganic: Quality-Certified Training of Farmers on Organic Agriculture

Ongoing initiatives - Projects Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

agINFRA  A data infrastructure to support agricultural scientific communities. Promoting data sharing and development of trust in agricultural sciences.  Funded by the FP7 programme under the objective INFRA : Data infrastructures for e ‐ Science  Join us : Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

agINFRA Objectives  To promote research for food and agriculture and access to research results and technologies at regional, national and international levels  To reinvigorate national research systems and share information and best practices  To improve access to knowledge Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

… in a few sentences  Based on a linked open data architecture harmonizing semantics and ontologies  Aggregating data of existing systems, taking advantage of advanced cloud/grid services and infrastructure  Devised for scalability and maximum interoperability by adapting existing widely used components  Fostering diverse communities of heterogeneous providers and users  Providing researcher-centric services Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

 Demonstrating the potential of a multilingual Web portal for Sustainable Agricultural & Environmental Education  Funded by the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), Policy Support Programme (PSP)  Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

Organic.Lingua - The need Enhance the existing Organic.Edunet Web portal by introducing automated multilingual services that will further support the uptake of the portal by its targeted audiences, facilitate the multilingual features of the portal, and further extend its geographical and linguistic coverage. Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

Organic.Lingua - Vision Boost the usage, exploitation and extension of knowledge on Organic Agriculture and Agroecology by using new/ innovative ways to facilitate searching and to minimize the segmentation of knowledge due to lingual barriers through the introduction of automated multilingual services, supported by a quality-controlled collaborative and interactive approach while developing a sustainable, low-cost and re-usable solution to the problem of multillinguality across Europe and the whole globe. Join us :  Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

Natural Europe  Natural History & Environmental Cultural Heritage in European Digital Libraries for Education  Funded by the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), Policy Support Programme (PSP).  Join us : Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

Vision Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

 Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository - Sharing Scientific and Scholarly Research related to Agriculture, Food, and Environment  36-months CIP-ICT-PSP EU project, started in June 2010  Aims to improve access to EU agriculture & aquaculture open access research results Join us : Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

VOA3R Content Population / Integration  Among others, VOA3R has created a federated repository, which will harvest scholarly content from institutional repositories  Scholarly content from these institutional repositories on agriculture and aquaculture will be aggregated to VOA3R repository Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

VOA3R Platform Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy Target users: Researchers Students Practitioners …in the areas of Agriculture, Viticulture, Aquaculture etc.

 e-Government Lowering Administrative Burdens for Rural Businesses  Funded by the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), Policy Support Programme (PSP).  Join us : Mission Making the life of civil servants and rural entrepreneurs easier through innovative eGov services, training tools and methods Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

Rural Inclusion Platform Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy Semantic eGov: The main bundle of eGov services that helps reducing the administrative burden for rural SMEs eGovTube: A semantically interactive web platform for knowledge and experience exchange between users Rural Observatory 2.0: The carrier of training content, also provisioning for some additional eGov services

 Transfer of the Water Competences Model to AGRIcultural COMpetences  Funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme, Leonardo da Vinci (LdV), Transfer of Innovation.  Join us :  To provide the first competence model for the agricultural sector (ACM) and in particular the fields related with the unitisation of the water resources in irrigation, hydroponics and other related agricultural fields. Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

AGRICOM - Objectives  Identification and analysis of the needs and competences required by the labour market in the European agricultural sector  Transfer of the generic WACOM Competence Model (WCM) to the AGRICOM Competence Model (ACM)  Pilot-testing of the ACM within professions related to agricultural use of water  Establishment of the AGRICOM online community to support discussion and research exchange related to the project. Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

Recent Organised Events - Activities Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

 Green Education for Green Innovation event brought together people and institutions that were interested into agricultural, biodiversity and rural education, so that collaboration opportunities may be explored and exploited  The overall aim was to take advantage of the collective experience, good practices and software tools that various stakeholders and initiatives around the world apply in order to make relevant educational content available online  as_ as_2011 Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy

 Aimed to raise the awareness of the stakeholders in the agricultural sector about the design and implementation of competence-based curriculum for advisors’ and experts’ training in organic agriculture topics, the blended learning approach in professional training of organic farmers and the assessment process for the quality assurance vocational education and training in organic agriculture.  CerOrganicConference CerOrganicConference Project Meeting 10h April, 2012, Naples, Italy CerOrganic European Conference Organic Agriculture & Education: Challenges in Training Advisors of Organic Farmers

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