Presentation by Harald Sundmaeker Senior Researcher, ATB-Bremen FIWARE Global Summit 23-24 October 2019 - Berlin, Germany

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FIWARE Summit – Stakeholders and Use Cases
SmartAgriHubs
EU based initiative for innovation in agri-food, regional coaching,
knowledge exchange and funding
Harald Sundmaeker, October 23rd 2019, Berlin

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Expansion of Innovation in Agri-Food
Based on strategic initiatives - Examples
02.2008 04.2011 09.201404.2013 01.2017 11.2018
Research Innovation Acceleration Validation
Network
Expansion
www.iof2020.eu www.smartagrihubs.euwww.fiware.org
Device Use Case
Service
Composition
Business Model
Innovation
Large Scale
Use Case
Innovation
Experiments

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SmartAgriHubs
What I am talking about
• 48 months project
• Funded by EC
• Partners all over EU
• Network of Networks
• Key Enabler:
Digital Innovation Hubs
www.smartagrihubs.eu

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General information about DIHs:
https://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/digital-innovation-hubs
Digital Innovation Hubs
Innovation Services
Ecosystem
• Community building
• Strategy development
• Ecosystem learning
• Project development
• Lobbying
Technology
• Technical support on scale-up
• Provision of technology
infrastructure
• Testing and validation
• Strategic RDI
• Contract research
Business
• Incubator/accelerator
support
• Access to finance
• Skills and education

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Competence
Centres
in the EU
(organised by topics)
SmartAgriHubs core Stakeholders in the Network of Networks
www.smartagrihubs.eu
Digital
Innovation
Hubs
(Located in regions)
South-East
North-East
Scandinavia
North-
West
UK &
Ireland
France
Iberia Italy &
Malta
Central
Innovation
Experiments
(End-users & Innov. Providers
supported by DIHs & CCs)
9 Regional Clusters
Digitisation in 5 agri-food sectors:
Arable farming, livestock, vegetable,
fruits and aquaculture
Coaching
Validate
Artificial
Intelligence
IoT Big Data Robotics….
Identify
Support
Validate

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• Facilitate growth of the Network of Networks
• Team-up with existing initiatives
(e.g. regional or topical)
• Validate coaching and support schemes
to learn and improve
• Leverage funding
SmartAgriHubs Open Calls
Key Objectives

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Perspectives for organising Open Calls
IE, DIH, CC
Instruments
Geographical location
RegionLivestock, arable,
vegetables, fruit, aquaculture
Agri-food sector
KPIs:
• 70 New Innovation Experiments
• 6 M€ SmartAgriHubs Funding
• Leverage with external public &
private funds aiming at mobilising
additional 24 M€
• Validate support of DIHs & CCs

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How to match Agripreneurs’ Needs?

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Selection Criteria
for Identifying Unicorns
• Possible Open Call Types
by/for whom?
• Eligibility Criteria?
• Evaluation Criteria & Process?
Technology and Business Models
What’s hot and what’s not
• How help teams to work on most relevant
• Solutions
• Data Sources
• SmartAgriHubs already includes diverse
Innovation Experiments from diverse regions
and sectors
Matching Grants with
Private Equity Funding
• Role & Interest of Stakeholders?
• Possible procedure to combine
public & private funds?
• What would be the balance between
own, private and public funds?
• User Needs
• Business Models
Topics Currently Discussed

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• Hackathon in Wageningen (25.-26.10.)
• FIWARE SmartAgriFood Domain Committee
Meeting at the FIWARE Global Summit
(24.10.2019)
• Present at the AgriTechnica (11/2019)
• First Open Calls in 2020
Next Steps
https://www.smartagrihubs.eu/ - https://forum.farmhack.nl/
https://www.fiware.org/summit/startup-day/hackathon/

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