The European Commission is organizing a two-day EIP-AGRI workshop on the theme ‘Data Sharing: ensuring a fair sharing of digitisation benefits in agriculture’.

It will take place on 4-5 April 2017 in Bratislava, Slovakia, and we are looking for participants!

Do you have relevant experience and/or ideas exploring models for data sharing? Call for participants is open till 22nd of January 2017 at 23:59. If you are interested in participating please fill in the online form.

The digital revolution is now upon us. A number of digital technologies and trends with the potential of entirely transforming the way we work are now becoming available to the agricultural sector. However, in one way or another, these technologies all rely on data sharing among different actors within and outside of the sector (input providers, farmers, advisers, processors, marketers, public bodies, etc.). Data sharing is difficult to achieve and it needs to happen in an environment of trust.

Several factors may affect the internal and external sharing of data in the agri-food sector. Data ownership and privacy, division of added-value coming from data, market power [re]distribution by data access and control, are some of these factors and they are key aspects to creating an environment of trust. 

The workshop will discuss the existing or potential arrangements, frameworks and pathways to enable effective, fair and valuable data sharing. Therefore, contributing to unlocking the potential the digital revolution holds for agriculture.

Experiences and ideas of participants will be at the core of the workshop. Therefore we kindly request applicants to tell us their experience with, or ideas of, data sharing models in the agricultural sector, or applicable to the agricultural sector. They may be already implemented or be just a concept. The focus should lie on the implications for the agricultural sector and its interests for participating in such models. 

Do you have relevant experience and/or ideas exploring models for data sharing? Call for participants is open till 22nd of January 2017 at 23:59. If you are interested in participating please fill in the online form.

Selection of participants will be made taking into account the applicants’ experiences and we are looking for a rich variety of examples, covering different sectors, stages in the food-chain, regions, farm sizes, etc.
 

Please forward this information to other people you think are willing to take this opportunity to share their experiences and ideas of data sharing models.

The selected participants will be informed by the end of January. Travel and hotel costs for participants can be covered by the European Commission.

Yours faithfully, on behalf of the organizing team,
 

Quico Ónega
Task Manager EIP-AGRI workshop on Data Sharing
EIP-AGRI Service Point “Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability"