SO5: Embedding the Soil-X-Change project and the EIP OGs in the EU AKIS community and encouraging further cross-country EIP collaboration in order to sustain the Network and leverage impact.

Activities underpinning this objective

Developing capacities and mechanisms for an effective multi-actor engagement, specifically including farmers, EIP AGRI OGs and AKIS actors in knowledge co-creation, exchange, feedback and implementation for more successful empowerment and replications across Europe beyond the project lifetime

Connecting network organisation with similar objectives and creating joint actions between them Creating sophisticated set of dissemination activities to enhance, share and grow the knowledge that will be developed in the Soil-X-Change network

Developing international cooperation, co-creation and co-innovation looking to exchange of knowledge on new topics for OGs

Achievements/Targeted outcome

9 National Nodes as first point of contact between the national actors and the EU wide Soil-X-Change Net

Soil-X-Change Net storing and sharing all the practices, solutions, problems, materials, videos, needs and abstracts collected and developed

9 Letter of support signed by AKIS Coordination bodies from Member states

All together 39 National and EU level workshops with farmers, OGs, SOIL HUBS, Synergy projects, AKIS CB, AKIS actors

Sustainability strategy with roadmap