Soil-X-Change

The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Network, formerly the European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI), is a forum for peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing to foster competitive and sustainable farming and forestry. Its members include national CAP networks and other agriculture and rural policy stakeholders including organisations, policymakers, researchers and practitioners. The EU-funded Soil-X-Change project was initiated to expedite and intensify the sharing and co-creation process on the field of sustainable soil and farm management. It will assimilate, harmonise and analyse data products and results and share innovative data practices while introducing ready-to-use best practices.
The proposed project: Initiative of Fostering cross-border knowledge exchange and co-creation on sustainable soil and farm management (Soil-X-Change) will help to connect farmers, actors, policy makers, projects, and initiatives to speed up innovation and promote faster, wider co-creation and transposition of innovative solutions into practice. It will contribute to effective AKIS by intensifying thematic cooperation between researchers, farmers, and other stakeholders in the EU. Soil-X-Change will also contribute to the green transition, smart agriculture, climate-neutrality, and sustainability areas, as well as enhancing and exchanging the knowledge of the main actors. Soil-X-Change, initiated by EIP-AGRI Operational Group practitioners (OGs), reflects the needs of 151 direct partners. It will collect, combine, harmonise, analyse and integrate the results and data product developed by the different EIP-AGRI OGs and the project partners. Soil-X-Change will disseminate and share innovative practices across 9 member countries. Furthermore, the Soil-X-Change project will bring together EIP OGs and key stakeholders working on sustainable soil and farm management to create an EU-wide network, share knowledge, and introduce ready-to-use practices that will enable farmers to make the right decisions related to agricultural production practices. At the end of the project the extended knowledge and innovative ideas of member and non-member OGs will widen the scope of their activities and showcasing their result to an increased number of stakeholders and farmers in an international environment and network across EU countries. Soil-X-Change will use a bottom-up approach (farmers to OGs) and will reinforce and share practical knowledge using the main dissemination channels suitable for farmers and practitioners.