CONSULT

Innovation done by many hands, with concrete results

Research and innovation projects in which we work alongside universities, research centers, and companies to address real challenges in agribusiness

What we are developing now with our partners

SoilValues
Horizon Europe

SoilValues

SoilValues is a project aimed at improving soil health through value-based business models, developing incentives, tools and recommendations that motivate land managers to invest in soil ecosystem services.

2023 to 2026

In Progress

aWISH
Horizon Europe

aWISH

aWISH is a project that aims to improve the welfare of pigs and broiler chickens across Europe through the automated monitoring of indicators at slaughterhouse level, generating data and best practice recommendations for all actors in the value chain.

2022 to 2026

In Progress

EU-FarmBook
Horizon Europe

EU-FarmBook

EU-FarmBook is a project that aims to develop, at regional, national and European levels, an information repository that aggregates and organises knowledge from the agriculture and forestry domains, promoting sharing, innovation and decision support.

2022 to 2026

In Progress

Grazing4AgroEcology
Horizon Europe

Grazing4AgroEcology

Grazing4AgroEcology is a broad European network aimed at promoting grazing and supporting farms that rely on it, reinforcing farmers' capacities to optimise the economic, ecological and animal welfare performance of these systems.

2022 to 2026

In Progress

OrganicTargets4EU
Horizon Europe

OrganicTargets4EU

OrganicTargets4EU is a project that aims to support European targets for organic farming and aquaculture by building transformation scenarios and policy recommendations that help achieve the Farm to Fork objectives by the year 2030.

2022 to 2026

In Progress

QuantiFarm
Horizon Europe

QuantiFarm

QuantiFarm is a project aimed at evaluating, under real-world conditions, the costs and benefits of digital technology solutions in agriculture, providing useful tools and recommendations to farmers, agricultural advisors, and policy-makers across Europe.

2022 to 2026

In Progress

INTAQ
Horizonte 2020

INTAQ

INTAQT is a project that aims to develop innovative tools to assess and authenticate the quality of chicken meat, beef and dairy products, by linking livestock production systems with the quality of the products obtained.

2021 to 2026

In Progress

thERBN
Horizon Europe

thERBN

thERBN is a European thematic network that aims to bring circular bioeconomy solutions closer to the needs of small-scale farmers and forest producers, by valorising biological waste and sharing ready-to-apply knowledge on the ground.

2025 to 2027

In Progress

Re-Livestock
Horizon Europe

Re-Livestock

Re-Livestock is a project that aims to assess and mobilise the adoption of innovative practices at the animal, farm and regional scale, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance the climate resilience of livestock systems.

2022 to 2027

In Progress

ForestAgriGreenNudge
Horizon Europe

ForestAgriGreenNudge

ForestAgriGreenNudge is a project that aims to guide decision-makers towards sustainable practices in agriculture and forestry, using behavioural science and the Green Nudge, subtle and positive interventions that reshape decision-making environments.

2024 to 2028

In Progress

OrganicAdviceNetwork
Horizon Europe

OrganicAdviceNetwork

OrganicAdviceNetwork is a project aimed at establishing a European network of agricultural advisers and advisory services for organic farming, promoting training, knowledge-sharing and skills development with a view to achieving the target of 25 % of organic land area.

2024 to 2028

In Progress

OrganicYieldsUP
Horizon Europe

OrganicYieldsUP

OrganicYieldsUP is a project that aims to sustainably increase organic production by bringing together and evaluating knowledge from long-term trials and lighthouse farms, and creating a European networking platform connecting science and practice.

2024 to 2028

In Progress

AdvisoryNetPEST
Horizon Europe

AdvisoryNetPEST

AdvisoryNetPEST is a project aiming to create a network and improve advice across the Union by increasing knowledge sharing and the adoption of innovative solutions to reduce pesticide use and risks towards the Farm to Fork targets.

2024 to 2028

In Progress

ATTRACTISS
Horizon Europe

ATTRACTISS

ATTRACTISS is a project aimed at strengthening the competencies, approaches and good governance models of innovation support services, empowering AKIS actors to accelerate ideas towards more sustainable agriculture and forestry.

2022 to 2028

In Progress

LiveNet
Horizon Europe

LiveNet

LiveNet is a project that aims to create and develop a European network of livestock advisory services, strengthening knowledge exchange between agricultural advisory technicians and within AKIS, and promoting the adoption of innovative solutions for sustainable livestock farming.

2025 to 2029

In Progress

Climate Farm Demo
Horizon Europe

Climate Farm Demo

Climate Farm Demo is a project that brings together a pan-European network of pilot farms to demonstrate and disseminate climate-smart agriculture practices, supporting farmers and agricultural advisory services in the transition to a carbon-neutral sector.

2022 to 2029

In Progress

modernAKIS
Horizon Europe

modernAKIS

modernAKIS is a project aimed at strengthening the capacities of AKIS actors by building a European coordination network and communities of practice to make agricultural knowledge and innovation systems more effective, efficient and coherent.

2022 to 2029

In Progress

ClimateSmartResearch
Horizon Europe

ClimateSmartResearch

ClimateSmartResearch is a project that aims to accelerate the agricultural sector's transition towards climate neutrality by developing, testing and validating climate-smart agriculture practices across a network of European experimental stations.

2025 to 2030

In Progress

ClimateSmartAdvisors
Horizon Europe

ClimateSmartAdvisors

ClimateSmartAdvisors is a project that aims to mobilise the European community of agricultural advisory technicians to accelerate the adoption of climate-smart farming practices by reinforcing skills and creating sharing networks across Europe.

2023 to 2030

In Progress

Completed projects, with results for consultation

DEMO.net
PRR

DEMO.net

DEMO.net is a project that aims to promote innovation and competitiveness within the national fruit and vegetable sector by creating a network for sharing, demonstration and capacity-building that strengthens the skills and internal processes of Producer Organisations.

2023 to 2025

Completed

NUTRI-CHECK NET
Horizon Europe

NUTRI-CHECK NET

NUTRI-CHECK NET is a project aimed at creating a European thematic network to increase the precision of arable crop nutrition management by bringing together decision-making tools and farmer clubs that evaluate and share good practices among peers.

2023 to 2025

Completed

VALORCER
PRR

VALORCER

+VALORCER is a project that aims to promote national cereal production and create a blockchain-based traceability scheme along the entire production chain, capable of earning the trust of all parties involved and of consumers.

2023 to 2025

Completed

ClieNFarms
Horizon Europe

ClieNFarms

ClieNFarms is a project that aims to demonstrate and evaluate technical, organisational and economic solutions on farms, supporting the transition towards a carbon-neutral European agriculture that is more resilient to climate change by the year 2050.

2022 to 2025

Completed

FaRMeR
Erasmus+

FaRMeR

The FaRMeR is a project that aims to train farmers in risk management to increase the sector's resilience, by developing a methodology, a training curriculum and a platform that help identify, assess and manage farm risks.

2022 to 2024

Completed

COCOREADO
Horizonte 2020

COCOREADO

COCOREADO is a project aiming to rebalance the position of farmers in supply chains, connecting producers and consumers through the training of ambassadors, good practices and the strong involvement of young people in innovative solutions.

2021 to 2024

Completed

BATModel
Horizonte 2020

BATModel

The BATModel is a project that aims to improve the modelling of agri-food trade policies by developing a modular toolkit platform to help the European Commission and decision-makers better analyse cross-border trade issues.

2020 to 2024

Completed

IPMWORKS
Horizonte 2020

IPMWORKS

IPMWORKS is a project that builds a European network of farmers to demonstrate and promote economically viable integrated pest management strategies, reducing heavy pesticide reliance through peer-to-peer learning and sharing.

2020 to 2024

Completed

MIXED
Horizonte 2020

MIXED

MIXED is a project aiming at the transdisciplinary and multi-actor development of efficient and resilient agro-silvo-pastoral systems, improving their efficiency and climate resilience in collaboration between farmers, agricultural advisory technicians and researchers.

2020 to 2024

Completed

i2connect
Horizonte 2020

i2connect

i2connect is a project that aims to empower agricultural and forestry advisory services to support interactive innovation processes by reinforcing skills and creating a European network that promotes a grassroots innovation culture among producers.

2019 to 2024

Completed

InnoVar
Horizonte 2020

InnoVar

InnoVar is a project that aims to develop a new generation of variety trials to improve harvests on European farms, combining genomics, phenomics and machine learning to identify the varieties suited to each region.

2019 to 2024

Completed

SUPER-G
Horizonte 2020

SUPER-G

SUPER-G is a project that aims to develop systems and policies for more sustainable permanent grasslands, working with farmers and researchers to understand, assess and manage the ecosystem services that these grasslands provide.

2018 to 2024

Completed

Spin
Portugal 2020

Spin

SPIN is a project that aims to develop an innovative and disruptive sprayer for tree and bush crops, equipped with an innovative air acquisition and distribution system based on a new semi-hybrid precision spraying platform.

2021 to 2023

Completed

Sherpa
Horizonte 2020

Sherpa

SHERPA is a project that aims to bring together scientific knowledge and the views of citizens, stakeholders and policymakers in multi-actor platforms to formulate recommendations to support the definition of modern policies for European rural areas.

2019 to 2023

Completed

FAIRshare
Horizonte 2020

FAIRshare

FAIRshare is a project aimed at reducing the digital divide in agriculture by supporting farm advisory technicians in the adoption of new digital tools and services and by creating a European network for sharing experiences and best practices among peers.

2018 to 2023

Completed

HIBA
Interreg POCTEP

HIBA

HIBA is a cross-border cooperation project that aims to promote the digitalisation of the agri-food sector in Spain and Portugal, creating a broad network of digital innovation hubs that reinforces the competitiveness and sustainability of businesses.

2018 to 2023

Completed

SmartAgriHubs
Horizonte 2020

SmartAgriHubs

SmartAgriHubs is a project aiming to accelerate the digital transformation of the European agri-food sector by building a network of digital innovation hubs that brings technology closer to farmers and promotes the adoption of digital solutions on farms.

2018 to 2022

Completed

SuWaNu Europe
Horizonte 2020

SuWaNu Europe

SuWaNu Europe is a European thematic network aiming to transfer practical knowledge on the safe and economical reuse of treated wastewater in agricultural irrigation, connecting farmers, researchers and operators around good practices.

2019 to 2021

Completed

GOJIBerries
Operational Groups

GOJIBerries

Gojiberries is an Operational Group aimed at identifying the differences between the two cultivars of *Lycium barbarum*, Short Leaf and Long Leaf, and analysing the quality of the fruit's components, thereby supporting its production and valorisation at a national level.

2018 to 2021

Completed

OleoColza
Operational Groups

OleoColza

OleoColza is an Operational Group that aims to obtain oilseed rape varieties with superior quality characteristics, introducing it as a high-yielding rotational crop and reinforcing the diversification and sustainability of crop rotations.

2018 to 2021

Completed

ChildLamb
Operational Groups

ChildLamb

ChildLamb is an Operational Group that aims to add value to the lesser-known cuts of lamb, developing innovative meat products that are nutritionally suited for early childhood, opening up new market opportunities for the national sheep sector.

2018 to 2021

Completed

Dragon Fruit
Operational Groups

Dragon Fruit

Dragon Fruit is an Operational Group that aims to validate the productive capacity of red pitaya in Portugal, evaluating the agronomic behaviour and market potential of this emerging crop as an alternative diversification option for producers.

2018 to 2021

Completed

FDControlo
Operational Groups

FDControlo

FDControlo is an Operational Group that aims to study the importance of alternative hosts in the dispersion of Flavescence Dorée disease and populations of the insect vector Scaphoideus titanus, contributing to more effective control in vineyards.

2017 to 2021

Completed

ENTOVALOR
Portugal 2020

ENTOVALOR

ENTOVALOR is a project that aims to apply the circular economy to the agri-food sector, using larvae of the insect Hermetia illucens to convert organic waste into protein sources for animals and into organic fertilisers for agricultural soils.

2017 to 2020

Completed