The European Innovation Partnership (EIP) aims to bring sustainability and efficiency to agriculture.
With its new bottom-up approach, the EU wants to bring a fresh approach to agricultural innovation activities and promote better exchanges between science and practice.
The gametes of the innovative project work are the Operational Groups.
As Innovation Service Provider for the state of Schleswig-Holstein,the Innovationsbüro(Innovation Office) has the following tasks:
Knowledge transfer of the project results
The Innovation Office EIP Agrar is the interface between practice and Managing Authority, in our case the Ministry, in the implementation of EIP in SH.
The state of Schleswig-Holstein is taking the ideas of EIP Agrar and from 2015 providing funding for innovation projects with which sustainability, resource protection and agricultural productivity can be increased. In essence it aims to encourage dedicated farmers, researchers and entrepreneurs to new forms of cooperation.
Funding is provided for innovation projects that implement the transfer of knowledge and networking between agricultural practice, consultancy and science. For example, there are many challenges in the areas of animal welfare, slurry utilization, digitization and nutrient management.
Minister Jan-Philipp Albrecht stellte die EIP-Broschüre „Innovationen für landwirtschaftliche Produktivität und Nachhaltigkeit in Schleswig-Holstein - Projekte 2015-2020“ auf Gut Quarnbek der Öffentlichkeit vor. Kammer Präsidentin Ute Volquardsen unterstrich bei dieser Gelegenheit die Bedeutung des Innovationsbüros an der Landwirtschaftskammer.
Environmental protection, animal welfare and sustainable economic practices have a high priority in society. The European Agricultural Innovation Partnership (EIP Agri) has existed since 2014, with which practical innovations are promoted precisely in these future-relevant areas of the agricultural sector. The fresh wind in agricultural innovation is intended to contribute to more sustainability, resource protection and efficiency in agriculture across Europe using the bottom-up principle.
Schleswig-Holstein was the first region in Europe to implement EIP Agri with € 10 million in the current funding period. Today there are well over 3,000 successful EIP projects in Europe.
From grazing to more animal welfare to nutrient management in grassland and digitization in vegetable growing - 30 innovative projects have been funded in Schleswig-Holstein so far. A jury from the Ministry for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature and Digitization selected the best projects in the course of a selection process. The first projects in Schleswig-Holstein started in 2015, the projects of the 2nd call started in June 2018. Many of the operational groups that implement their innovation ideas together have successfully completed their work after three years of funding. The results are publicly available. >>
The innovation office has been established at the Chamber of Agriculture in Rendsburg since 2014. It works on behalf of the Ministry for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature and Digitization of the State of Schleswig-Holstein to support innovations in the agricultural sector. As an official innovation service provider and network manager, it is a partner for innovation ideas and offers advice on project development. It supports applications for funding and the implementation of EIP projects. >>
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