1. What is the (sub)objective of WP8 by the end of the project?
Creating a thematic network to increase the economic, social and environmental sustainability of dairy farming in Europe:
by stimulating a knowledge flow of practice based innovations (lines)
by putting dairy farmers at the center of communications to a wider audience of dairy industry and professionals (dots)

2. Profile our network
Current functionality:
search participants within our network (with pop-up contact details)
New functionality:
create your own network by bundling on work package themes and/or innovation topics (f.i. housing systems or biodiversity)

3. Interests and numbers OG’s across EU

4. Impacts, effects and beyond Update: mid term report (July 2017)
4860 users website
5440 viewers webinars
400 live visitors webinars
32 dairy correspondents / journalist across Europe
> (dairy) farmers total media coverage
>50 countries (also Russia, USA, Canada and Brazil)
Grand total: dairy farmers and professionals reached so far. That’s 50,4% of total amount EU-15 dairy farmers.

5. The next level
How to manage a better flow of content between countries?
Dairy farm students from consortium partners (f.i. universities in Poland and Portugal) host Q&A-sessions on hot innovation topics at our online website forum
How do we ‘milk’ pilot farmers/innovative farmers and their stories the best?
Farmers love to “see” innovations themselves and interconnect with each other about more details . That’s why we want to make dairy innovations as clear and visible as possible, but cost efficient, like video case studies, farm signs and novel ICT-techniques.
What’s our legacy after the project?
EuroDairy is all about building a self-sustaining network. How do we harvest this? GIS-map that runs like a yellow pages on (sub)themes and innovation topics. Visitors can draw their own map of innovations.