From Sept. 28th to Sept. 30th ICT-Agri-Food funded projects gathered at Aachen Germany for a mid-term seminar. SustainIT project was represented by project coordinator Ants-Hannes Viira from Estonian University of Life Sciences and Natascha Schlereth from Technical University of Munich. The aim of the seminar...
SustainIT team will present preliminary results of consumer questionnaire survey on ICT use for food purchasing in the conference „Digital Shift in Estonian Rural Economy“. The conference takes place on Sept. 27th and organized by the Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce and hosted by...
The third newsletter of the project provides updates on the Living Labs in in Germany, Sweden, Finland and Estonia, preliminary information on the SustainIT consumer survey as well as a summary of European Commission's (2022) study on animal welfare labelling in Europe, background information on...
Project SustainIT has reached halfway mark and partners reviewed the progress and challenges related to Living Labs in all four countries. The Living Labs are essential element of the project as the data collection of digitalization challenges, validation of the data and co-creation of solutions...
The second newsletter of the project covers the activities of second half of 2021, including first feedback on country Living Labs, plans for 2022, workshops on agricultural data spaces, digitalization trends in Estonian agriculture and other topics. The newsletter is available at https://sustainit.ee/sustainit-newsletter-2/...
The first Swedish Living Lab (LL) was organised by the Halmstad university team on July 1st as an online meeting. The 12 participants represented different stakeholders in meat and milk value chains: dairy and beef farmers, a cheese producer, an ICT-consultant focusing the agricultural sector,...
The first meeting of Finnish Living Lab was organized by University of Oulu team on November 24th. Meeting has 13 participants representing farmers, major database and ICT stakeholders, dairy companies, slaughterhouses and beef industry, experts and administrators. Stakeholders discussed the development of animal health and...
The German Living Lab meeting was organized by team from Technical University of Munich on October 29th. The stakeholders representing farmers, veterinarians, farmer organizations (milk and beef) and the ICT sector discussed the ICT barriers and potential solutions. This group identified the lack of software...
On 11 November 2021, Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce for the first time organized a conference on the challenges and developments of the ongoing digital transition in agriculture. The conference topics covered the impacts of agricultural policy and the role of public sector in...
The first meeting of Estonian Living Lab took place on 28 October 2021 in Mäo, Estonia as a hybrid event with virtual and in person attendance. 15 participants represented the main database operators Estonian Livestock Performance Recording and Agricultural Registers and Information Board, dairy and...