How Will technology bring back young people to rural areas?

On the 25th of October of 2021, SmartAgriHubs with the support of CEJA, MIJARC and RUMRA & Smart Villages will organise a high-level event. The event will have an online format to facilitate the attendance to the sessions and it will be chaired by the MEPs Jérémy Decerle and Bert-Jan Ruissen.

The meeting will highlight how smart solutions, new technologies, Digital Innovation Hubs and social networks are having a beneficial effect on young farmers and their practices. The meeting will convey important speakers from the agri-food sector alongside representatives from the EU institutions.

 

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Young people and rural areas

COVID-19 has forced many young EU farmers to find new ways to trade their products and has forced customers to find new ways to acquire them. Despite the restrictions, there has been a reconnection between rural and urban areas. This clearly illustrates how merging the passion of young farmers with smart solutions can be a key element to enhance the resilience of agri-food systems to twenty-first-century challenges.

The main challenge new generations of farmers must overcome is climate change and smart cutting-edge technology can play a crucial role in making agriculture more sustainable. In SmartAgriHubs, connections between farmers, SMEs and entrepreneurs have been established, with Digital Innovation Hubs at the heart of the communities. Since digitalisation and precision farming will have a strong role in the CAP reform, this event is an interesting opportunity to know how these may have a positive impact on young farming.

The event will be largely interactive, fostering debates with key representatives from different fields of the young agricultural sector and the European decision-makers. The preferred format of the sessions consists of short lectures followed by a panel debate, allowing plenty of time for audience interaction and discussion. The event will be divided into three different sessions each on a different topic but all dealing with the EU’s smart agricultural practices and young farmers.

 

Programme

Sessions

The event will be split into three sessions, each on a different topic but all dealing with the EU’s smart agriculture advancements and young farming.

• Session 1: Challenges encountered by young farmers

• Session 2: How DIHs can help to overcome present obstacles of agriculture

• Session 3: New tools to communicate and disseminate for farmers, along with career advice for the agri-tech sector

During the coffee break, the event will exhibit video testimonials and presentations to get to know the actual technologies used in SmartAgriHubs The event promises not only to be a great insight into the SmartAgriHubs project but will have a loud voice in the discussion on the role of smart agriculture in the generational renewal of the rural sector.

Chairpersons:

Bert-Jan Ruissen, MEP @European Parliament - Member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Jérémy Decerle, MEP @European Parliament - Member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Speakers

Adeline Zhiyanski, Vice President at MIJARC - Europe International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth (MIJARC)

Doris Marquardt, Programme Officer at the European Commission - DG AGRI, Digitalisation, Innovation, Agriculture and Rural Development

Diana Lenzi, President at CEJA - European Council of Young Farmers

Lorena van de Kolk, at YPN - Young Professionals Network

Register here!

 

Video exhibition: Make your voice heard!

During the coffee break, the event will exhibit video testimonials and presentations to get to know the actual technologies used in SmartAgriHubs The event promises not only to be a great insight into the SmartAgriHubs project but will have a loud voice in the discussion on the role of smart agriculture in the generational renewal of the rural sector.

Therefore, we call upon all young farmers to send us a short video describing their experience working in rural areas. We will upload the videos on our YouTube channel and we will publish them for the event, later in October! We want the SmartAgriHubs ecosystem to hear what young farmers have to say about their rural areas! 

What do we want to hear about?

•  • What are your challenges as young farmers?
•  • How is digitalization or digital tools helping you to tackle these challenges?

 

Follow the instruction to be uploaded on the SAH YouTube:

•  • Preferably, submit your videos in English. Otherwise, submit your video in your language and we will add the English subtitles.
•  • The video can’t be longer than one minute.
•  • take the video in a landscape mode (16:9 format).
•  • Use the devices you have access to! We will not check the quality, go for your smartphone or the full professional studio!
•  • Send us your video to communications@smartagrihubs.eu, using WeTransfer (or similar service) and mention in the subject: “Video Exhibition–Name–Country -Submission”
•  • Send us your contribution by 10/10/2021, 17.00 CET at the latest.

 

Last update: 21/09/2021

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