We are happy to inform you about the AGRI-DIGITAL GROWTH project kick off. Plan4all will lead in developing precision farming courses and establishing an innovative living lab, driving forward agricultural technology and collaboration.
Stay tuned for updates on our journey to enhance digital agriculture!
https://www.interreg-central.eu/projects/agri-digital-growth
Join us in driving innovation for sustainable agricultural nutrient management!
We are exited to announce that the call for challenges for the trans4num INSPIRE
Hackathon 2024 is now open!
We are looking for innovative challenge ideas focused on Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for sustainable agriculture and land management!
By fostering collaboration between the EU and China, the hackathon aims to inspire young farmers, students, and professionals to engage in creating innovative business ideas utilising NBS technologies.
This aligns with the broader ambition of trans4num to enhance NBS implementation through a multi-level approach involving academic partners, practice partners, and societal stakeholders.
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of impactful solutions, work
with like-minded individuals from around the world, and benefit from the knowledge and
experience of seasoned mentors.
Don’t miss the chance to be part of this transformative event – submit your challenge today at https://trans4num.eu/en/hackathon-2024/submit-challenge/.
More details about the hackathon: https://trans4num.eu/en/hackathon-2024/
The PoliRuralPlus project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 101136910), invites innovative proposals for our Outreach Call. This call aims to enhance rural-urban interactions across the EU, fostering grassroots innovations and leveraging technological advancements for sustainable rural development.
Objectives of the Outreach Call
Specific Objectives per Pilot Area
Proposals must align with the specific objectives identified in one of the nine designated pilot regions of the PoliRuralPlus project:
Please note that detailed descriptions of the specific objectives and the spatial extent of the pilot regions are described in the Guidelines for Applicants.
Eligibility Criteria
Submission Process
Financial Support
Key Dates
Contact and Assistance
For additional support, including consultancy on proposal preparation, applicants are encouraged to contact the designated contact points for each pilot region, whose details can be found on the PoliRuralPlus Knowledge Hub. For any other questions, please use opencalls@poliruralplus.eu.
Disclaimer: Applicants are advised to regularly check the PoliRuralPlus Knowledge Hub for the latest information and updates regarding the open call. PoliRuralPlus reserves the right to make any updates to the open call at any time without prior notice.
Open Call Documents
Additional requirements, terms, and conditions are part of the open call documents, including:
Applicants are advised to carefully review all accompanying documents available on the PoliRuralPlus Knowledge Hub to ensure full compliance and understanding of the submission process and requirements.
Please find below the trans4num poster presenting all the main facts about the project in a visual way.
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Be the first to explore SmartAfriHub 3.0! Join our exclusive webinar on 5th December 2023!
SmartAfriHub webinar: Exploring new horizons in spatial data management
● Date: 5th December 2023
About SmartAfriHub
Developed through the collaboration of EU and African scientists and technicians, SmartAfriHub is a groundbreaking platform based on Hub4Everybody’s technology. This unique solution facilitates the publishing, sharing, and cooperative management of geographical datasets, including:
Why attend?
Webinar Agenda
Who should attend?
This webinar is ideal for professionals, researchers, students, and anyone interested in spatial data management, GIS technologies, and collaborative platforms for geographical data.
Hub4Everybody / SmartAfriHub description
Hub4Everybody is a one-of-a-kind solution for publishing, sharing and cooperative
management of geographical datasets, such as professional data and measuring, results of research projects or student papers, educational materials, emotional maps, visualization of in-field research and other maps, tables, or databases. You can easily upload or update your data as well as adjust the parameters of sharing among different audiences. Hub4Everybody is an alternative tool combining online office software with an editorial system for spatial data. It is also an open-source alternative to already existing commercial solutions while offering additional extending options like e-learning. SmartAfriHub is just one instance of the Hub4Everybody platform. The solution can be tailored to your needs and deployed anywhere.
PLUS Change is looking for candidates from different cultural and professional backgrounds to join our Ambassadors of Change programme. Selected Ambassadors will contribute to discussions on equitable land use, representing the interests of groups that are often excluded from or underrepresented in land use planning and decision making. By joining PLUS Change as an Ambassador, you can have a voice in helping to build a more equitable, sustainable future!
Find out more at https://pluschange.eu/open-call-ambassadors-of-change/
We cordially invite you to submit your original contributions to AgriAI’24 – the 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture,
which will take place as a satellite workshop to IEEE FedCSIS 2024, to be held in Belgrade, Serbia, on 8–11 September, 2024.
Please see the workshop website: https://2024.fedcsis.org/thematic/agriai and the general conference web page https://fedcsis.org/ for more information.
Paper submission deadline: May 14, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in agriculture for a variety of uses, from plant disease detection to weeding automation, soil status monitoring, crop prediction, irrigation management, and decreased use of resources for improving quality and productivity. This workshop welcomes contributions related to a wide variety of interdisciplinary research and applications related to artificial intelligence in agriculture. AI can, in fact, provide highly positive effects on precision agriculture by optimizing, automating and forecasting several aspects of farming and revolutionizing the sector, providing helpful information and driving decisions using multiple sources of data and different sensors.
Moreover, in the climate change era, AI can improve sustainability by optimizing the use of resources such as water and soil management. We welcome innovative contributions, early results and position papers addressing one or more of the topics listed below and intend to foster informal discussions and bring together researchers, practitioners and industry experts to explore the challenges and opportunities of AI and Agriculture. We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you at the workshop!
Papers related to theories, methodologies, and applications in science and technology in the field of AI in Agriculture are especially solicited. Topics covering academic research, applications and lesson learnt are included, but not limited to:
The RAI index mapping tool – a map-based analytical tool for assessment of attractiveness of European regions with a focus on rural area is featured by the Innovation Radar of the EU.
This innovation was assessed by the JRC’s Market Creation Potential indicator framework as having a “Noteworthy” level of Market Creation Potential.
Find out more at https://innovation-radar.ec.europa.eu/innovation/50583
We are very excited to announce the launch of our project, PLUS Change (Planning Land Use Strategies: Meeting biodiversity, climate and social objectives in a changing world)!
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On January 31 – February 2, 2023, the “Week of Big and Open Data and Digital Innovation Hubs” took place in the center of Prague. In addition to the Plan4all association, other organizations were also involved in the organization of this intensive three-day event, namely the Czech Technological Platform for Agriculture, the CzechInno association, the WirelessInfo company, the Czech Center for Science and Society, Lesprojekt – services and Help Service – Remote Sensing. The event took place as a personal meeting of developers, managers, researchers, specialists, representatives of the state administration, private organizations, agricultural enterprises as well as end users.
The first day, January 31, 2023, was opened by a traditional conference, during which the results of the international projects STARGATE, SIEUSOIL, SmartAgriHubs, AgriHub CZ&SK and DEMETER were presented and unique solutions created over the past few years. The newly started projects PrepSoil, Data4Food2030, THEROS, DALIA, SAGRE and trans4num were also presented.
Individual presentations can be downloaded under a specific lecture:
Atlas Životního prostředí Liberec – Irena Košková (Krajský úřad Libereckého kraje)
Horizon Europe and where we can continue to cooperate – search for common possibilities – Karel Charvát (Plan4all z.s., WirelessInfo) – free discussion
The following two days, February 1 and February 2, 2023, were dedicated to the format of so-called “workshops”, which were a combination of a workshop, training, hackathon and ideathlon with the aim of actively verifying the usability of existing technologies in practice, contributing to their improvement and looking for ways to successfully integrate these technologies. The training was accompanied by experienced mentors who personally worked with everyone to find optimal solutions according to specific requirements. Intensive negotiations with potential users took place during the workshops. There was a lot of interest especially from the agricultural community. The response from the users brought a number of insights and ideas for further technological development, outlined new possibilities for the commercialization of research results and confirmed the need to discuss research results with the user community.
Hub4Everybody is a unique, modifiable solution for publishing, sharing and cooperative management of geographic data. It can be professional data and measurements, but also outputs from research projects or student works, materials for teaching, sensory maps, visualizations of field surveys and other maps, tables or databases. In short, any spatial data in vector or raster form. You can easily upload your data to the hub environment, edit and set sharing parameters, or use web services created from your data. Hub4Everybody is an alternative combination of online office software and spatial data management system.
Map Whiteboard is a technology that allows multiple users to collaborate online on the same map project and share datasets. The technology shares the entire map and presents the data in the context of any background information that may be useful. It allows multiple clients to see the identical map interface and simultaneously draw on it, edit vector layers, which increases the very efficiency of work and collaboration, when you sit around the meeting table and look at the map together, comment on it, point to “things” and propose changes.
The climate atlas (https://www.agrihub.cz/hsl-ng/AgroClima) shows selected agroclimatic factors for longer periods of time. It is always possible to display an estimate of their uncertainty for individual factors. Agroclimatic factors display: frost-free period, water balance, total precipitation, amount of incident sunlight, last day suitable for nitrogen fertilizer application and a group of factors related to the growth of wheat (as a reference crop), namely temperatures suitable for its growth and, conversely, the amount of heat stress suppressing its growth.
SensLog is a comprehensive sensor data management tool that spans the data pipeline from collection, storage, processing to publication and visualization. The basis of the system is a data model based on ISO 19156, which stores measured data as well as the results of partial analyses. Individual components ensure the reception and publication of data using the web services system in various formats and standards. At the same time, the SensLog system enables interoperability between different data providers and users, thanks to the set of SensLog Connectors it can receive and transmit data from different interfaces.
Within the Lesprojekt cloud, the development and prototyping environment JupyterHub is available, in which, in addition to many other tools for programming in Python and R, the Keras and TensorFlow libraries designed for working with artificial neural networks are available.
One of the supporting applications on the Lesprojekt cloud is the Sentinel-2 satellite data repository, which every day brings new images available from the territory of the Czech Republic. It serves as a database for all other publication systems that work with satellite data. Thanks to the centralization of the data warehouse, we achieve significant savings in disk space and computing capacity. Derived products such as vegetation indices NDVI, EVI and others are calculated in one place and individual publication systems access them as part of internal services according to specified criteria (e.g. date, area, product type, cloud cover level, etc.).
FarmInsight is a web application designed primarily for the preparation of application maps for a variable application. To easily work with farm data, the application supports several different ways of loading data on parts of land blocks for which calculations will be performed.
FieldCalc is a web service for dividing fields (parts of LPIS land blocks) into zones based on values from one of the offered vegetation indices. EVI, NDVI, NDRE, NDTI, NDWI and RVI4S1 indices are currently supported. FieldCalc offers an API for integration into other tools and a web graphical user interface that allows you to display any LPIS block on the territory of the Czech Republic, choose one of the available satellite scenes, display the scene for the given territory in natural colors, perform the calculation and view the results. In addition to the web interface, there is also a plugin for QGIS.
Are you interested in the presentations from the conference or the technology from individual lessons and want to learn more? Contact us and we will connect you with people from the team who are in charge of the mentioned project or product development.
Karel Charvát, Plan4all, charvat@plan4all.eu
Šárka Horáková, WirelessInfo, horakova@wirelessinfo.cz
František Zadražil, Lesprojekt-služby, fzadrazil@gmail.com
Karel Charvát Jr., Lesprojekt-služby, charvat_junior@lesprojekt.cz
