Meeting in Lugo of the members of the Service Point from the European Innovation Partnership of the European Commission.

Submitted by admin on Fri, 17/07/2015 - 10:57 GMT.

The team visiting Veiga de Luaces (Beealia)
Author: Pille Koorberg

The team of the Service Point from the European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) gathered in the city of Lugo to hold one of its meetings from the 6th to the 10th of July. The presence in Lugo of this advising and information service responds to the invitation made by the researchers of the Land Laboratory (LaboraTe) of the USC who are integrated in this team. The Service Point is formed by a consortium of organizations related to rural issues from Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Estonia, France and Spain where the coordinating partner is the Flemish Land Agency (VLM). The USC participates in the Service Point through the technicians of the LaboraTe, Quico Ónega, Beatriz Guimarey, Andrés García, Marcos Boullón and Eduardo Corbelle who complete a team of 24 persons from 10 different nationalities.

Every two months, the members of the Service Point meet to plan and distribute activities and tasks. Nevertheless, this is the first time since the Service Point is constituted that these meetings take place outside Brussels. All the member and managers of the team came to the USC facilities of the Coordination Vice-Rectory Office in the campus of Lugo (Casa do Saber) and the Land Laboratory.

In relation to the program for their stay in Lugo, the Service Point dealt with issues of their ordinary agenda, which is based in four pillars: produce publications, organize seminars, conferences and expert panels, develop a website and provide contents to it and interact with European organizations and agencies which are related to agriculture and rural issues.

The team also made study visits to several farms in the province, where they could directly know experiences related to agriculture and innovation. The tour started in the dairy farm of Casa Anxel and the association Cabana of intensive dairy farmers; both of them located in A Pastoriza municipality. Finally, the field visit ended in Veiga de Luaces in the municipality of Pol, where Beealia breeds part of its local Lamb and Kid flock.

More information related to the event:

The Service Point of the European Innovation Partnership of the European Commission meets this week in the Casa do Saber in Lugo.

Welcome to the Vice-Rectory in Lugo to the members of the Service Point from the European Innovation Partnership of the European Commission.

More information about EIP-AGRI:

The European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI), which is being developed by the General Directorate of Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission has as a main target the creation of multi-actor thematic networks which serve as a meeting point for farmers, advisors, researchers, industry, NGOs and other actors. In these networks, different actors can express their needs and share their ideas and knowledge. As a result, this interchange leads to building innovative solutions that may be easily put to practice. With this aim, the Service Point team organizes and facilitates many events (workshops, focus groups, seminars), where it is intended to improve communication, knowledge interchange as well as to identify needs for research from different actors.

With more tan thirty events organized in the last two years, EIP-AGRI has recently launched a call for three new Focus Groups (Submissions up to 7 September). Topics of the groups are:

  • Mixed farming systems: livestock/cash crops
  • Benchmarking of farm productivity and sustainability performance
  • Reducing emissions from cattle farming
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