Projects for Agribusiness Challenges
CONSULAI develops and integrates collaborative research and innovation projects geared towards concrete agribusiness challenges, bringing together public and private organisations to develop solutions with practical application and impact across the entire value chain.
Horizon Europe – ClimateSmartResearch (2025 – 2030)
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.
Horizon Europe – LiveNet (2025 – 2029)
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.
Horizon Europa – thERBN (2025 – 2027)
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.
Horizon Europe – AdvisoryNetPEST (2024 – 2028)
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.
Horizon Europe – ForestAgriGreenNudge (2024 – 2028)
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.
Horizon Europe – OrganicAdviceNetwork (2024 – 2028)
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.
Horizon Europe – OrganicYieldsUP (2024 – 2028)
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.
Horizon Europe – ClimateSmartAdvisors (2023 – 2030)
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.
Horizon Europe – ATTRACTISS (2022 – 2028)
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.
Horizon Europe – Climate Farm Demo (2022 – 2029)
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.
Horizon Europe – modernAKIS (2022 – 2029)
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.
Horizon Europe – Re-Livestock (2022 – 2027)
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.
Horizon Europe – aWISH (2022 – 2026)
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.
Horizon Europe – EU-FarmBook (2022 – 2026)
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.
Horizon Europe – Grazing4AgroEcology (2022 – 2026)
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.
Horizon 2020 – INTAQT (2021 – 2026)
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.
Horizon Europe – OrganicTargets4EU (2022 – 2026)
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.
Horizon Europe – QuantiFarm (2022 – 2026)
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.
Horizon Europe – SoilValues (2023 – 2026)
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.
Horizon Europe – ClieNFarms (2022 – 2025)
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.
PRR – DEMO.net (2023 – 2025)
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.
Horizon Europe – NUTRI-CHECK NET (2023 – 2025)
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.
PRR – +VALORCER (2023 – 2025)
+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.
Horizon 2020 – BATModel (2020 – 2024)
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.
Horizon 2020 – COCOREADO (2021 – 2024)
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.
Erasmus+ – FaRMeR (2022 – 2024)
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.
Horizon 2020 – i2connect (2019 – 2024)
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.
Horizon 2020 – InnoVar (2019 – 2024)
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.
Horizon 2020 – IPMWORKS (2020 – 2024)
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.
Horizon 2020 – MIXED (2020 – 2024)
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.
Horizon 2020 – SUPER-G (2018 – 2024)
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.
Horizon 2020 – FAIRshare (2018 – 2023)
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.
Interreg POCTEP – HIBA (2018 – 2023)
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.
Horizon 2020 – SHERPA (2019 – 2023)
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.
Portugal 2020 R&D – SPIN (2021 – 2023)
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.
Horizon 2020 – SmartAgriHubs (2018 – 2022)
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.
Operational Groups – ChildLamb (2018 - 2021)
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.
Operational Groups – FDControlo (2017 - 2021)
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.
Operational Groups – Dragon Fruit (2018 - 2021)
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.
Operational Groups – GOJIBerries (2018 - 2021)
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.
Operational Groups – Oilseed Rape (2018 - 2021)
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.
Horizon 2020 – SuWaNu Europe (2019 – 2021)
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.
