EIP-AGRI Workshop ‘Operational Groups: First experiences’20-21 April 2016 – Legnaro, Italy

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EIP-AGRI Workshop ‘Operational Groups: First experiences’Wednesday 20 April 2016 - Morning programme

08:15 – 09:00 Registration

Introduction and scope of the workshop

09:00 – 09:20 Welcome and openingRob Peters, DG Agriculture and Rural Development

Giuseppe Pan, Assessore, Veneto Region, Italy

09:20 – 10:15 Setting the scene• Purpose and objectives of the workshop

Rob Peters, DG Agriculture and Rural Development

• EIP-AGRI programmingInge Van Oost, DG Agriculture and Rural Development

• Introduction to the Day 1 working sessionsMark Redman, EIP-AGRI Service Point

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break and networking

Exchange of experiences I – setting up Operational Groups around concrete projects

10:45 – 11:30 Examples from Member States and regions• Organic dock control – development and implementation with clearwing moths

Patrick Hann, Austria

• Robust lamb (OG ROBUSTAGNO)Sophie Huby and Jean-Marc Gautier, Midi-Pyrénées, France

• Winter Harvest: Seasonal, energy-extensive and innovative vegetable productionVeronika Haslinger and Alexandra Depisch, Austria

11:30 – 12:30 Breakout session 1Interactive group discussions about the first experiences, challenges and needs arising from the setting up of Operational Groups

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

EIP-AGRI Workshop ‘Operational Groups: First experiences’Wednesday 20 April 2016 – Afternoon programme

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Exchange of experiences II – development and early implementation of Operational Group projects

13:30 – 14:15 Examples from Member States and regions• Population Management

Stefanie Klingel, Sowah Addo, Ulrike Duchâteau and Kay Poggensee, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

• Zero herbicides in Mediterranean perennial cropsXavier Delpuech, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

• Establishment of a sustainable and environmentally friendly wheat-value chain (OG ENU-Wheat)Ludger Linnemann, Hessen, Germany

14:15 – 15:15 Breakout session 2Interactive group discussions about the first experiences, challenges and needs arising from the development and early implementation of Operational Group projects

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break and networking

Focusing on your questions and issues

15:45 – 16:00 How are we going to work together?Mark Redman, EIP-AGRI Service Point

16:00 – 17:00 Informal discussions of your choice

17:00 – 17:30 Feedback from the informal discussions of your choice

19:30 – 21:30 Networking dinner

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ROBUSTAGNOMidi-Pyrénées, France

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Context:

sheep productivity = Key factor for economic viability

Sheep productivity = number of weanedlambs/ewes

2014 results in France : Sheep productivity : 27% to 262% (average=120%)

30% flocks with a sheep productivity below 100%

The three components of sheep productivity :Lambing rate

Ewe prolificacy rate

Lamb mortality rate

Increase in 10 years

high variability between farms

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Distribution of lamb mortality by age

39,4%

17,2%

14,3%

29,0%Aborted/stillborn

0 - 2 days

3 - 10 days

11 - 60 days

Lamb robustness

= key factor

Mortality before 10 days

= 70 % the overall mortality

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ROBUSTAGNO: our goals

To have more robust lambs at birth byCatching innovations from the grass roots level

Confronting innovations with scientific knowledge

Sharing innovations with Scottish farmers

Making innovations available

Testing innovations in pilot farm to identify conditions for implementing,

Involving farmers in the choice of the innovations to transfer,

To test a cross-fertilisation approach to identify and transfer

innovations and knowledge at the regional level

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2016 -2019

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Preparation of the proposal

A problem:Shared by the grass roots level and researchers

Matching with the Midi-Pyrénées’ RDP and call for proposal for EIP measure

A project written by (in 15 days in July):Coop de France Midi-Pyrénées – project leader

Focusing on the involvement of sheep breeders

Institut de l’Elevage - innovation broker

Partners

With the support of the Regional Council Languedoc Roussillon

Midi Pyrenees, Managing Authority of RDP Midi-Pyrénées

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ChallengesFirst call = rules not totally

clearShort time for partners

consultation and for writing

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ROBUSTAGNO : partners search

Coordinated by Coop de France Midi-Pyrénées through existing

networks (GIE, UMT)

Focus on 2 main sheep departments

A multi-actors approachFarmers organisation:

Sheep breeders involvement

Advisors:

Seek and transfer innovations

School (technical college for agriculture):

Test and transfer innovation to students

Research:

Scientific knowledge transfer

innovation support service:

Innovation broker

Regional network:

Wider dissemination

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The cross-

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From grass roots level

New research to meet end-user

needs

inventory / cross-fertilization / cross-

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Efficient & convenient solutions

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Disseminationof good pratices

Advisors

Schools

Farmers

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WP1 - OG (organisation

and meetings) O X X O X X O X X O X X O

Seek innovations, best

pratiques

Test innovations, best

pratiques

Communication S S S S S S S S

2016 2017 2018 2019

ROBUSTAGNO: timeline

X : Réunion du GOOG Meeting

O : Réunion du Comité de Pilotagesteering committee

S : Seminar

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Innovation Broker / Facilitator agent - role

Interconnect partners,

Foster the exchange of information and knowledge between members of the OG

Lead the OG meetings

Capture, synthesize and make available innovations

Identify innovative solutions from other (non-members of the OG)

Promote ideas’ incubation by combining scientific knowledge and innovations from the field,

Test innovative solutions

Product communication materials

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ChallengeTo involved farmers

and field actors

Good practicesSpecific training

SharePointCommunication tools

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Project leader -role

Responsible to insure the respect of the EU functioning rules

Interlocutor of the Managing Authority and the public financial supporters

In charge of requests of payment and distribution of the public subsidies

Not the funniest role but essential to

manage a multi-partnership project with

public subsidies

• Partnership

agreement

• Documents of

traceability

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ChallengeTo respect all complex EU rules

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SheepNet: a wider network

Why?Same issue in different EU sheep countries and worldwide

How?By linking EIP OGs (or equivalent networks)

By a transdisciplinary and a multi-actor approach

Add values?Global approach for a sustainable sheep productivity

Foster knowledge and best practices transfer/sharing between EU sheep actors and dissemination to sheep breeders

Definition of new research needs in accordance with sheep breeder’s needs

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Thank you

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