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28 April 2026EU-FarmBook Ambassadors Gathered in Barcelona for Reflection & Innovation Workshop
From 21 to 23 April 2026, EU-FarmBook Ambassadors came together in Granollers, Barcelona, for their 3rd Reflection and…
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7 April 2026Building a European wide network of livestock advisors: Insights from the LiveNet Annual Meeting in Dublin
Forming 33 national networks and activating 11 of them is a complex work that ran over the first…
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12 March 2026Strengthening European preparedness: HCC Insights from the EU-FAWREADY Milan Workshop 2026
In a significant step toward safeguarding European agriculture, Highclere Consulting (HCC) recently participated in the EU-FAWREADY Workshop 2026,…
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23 February 2026Strengthening European preparedness: HCC facilitates the first EUFAWREADY Webinar
As part of our ongoing commitment to fostering resilient and sustainable agricultural systems, Highclere Consulting (HCC) organized and…
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16 February 2026VISIONARY: 3rd SPI Workshop – Agri-food markets in Brașov – between authentic agri-food production and the need for modernisation
After four years of implementation, the VISIONARY project is coming to an end this year. The project aimed…
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3 February 2026Building pathways for sustainable livestock: insights from the EU CAP Network Thematic Group
Last Thursday, our colleague Cătălina Rogozan attended her first EU CAP Network Thematic Group meeting in Brussels—a milestone…
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13 January 2026Knowledge Platform EU-FarmBook Brings Agricultural Studies in Understandable Language
The EU-FarmBook information platform is now freely available to everyone. This free, open-access, and multilingual online platform collects…
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8 December 2025Join the EU-FarmBook Forum, ”Turning Knowledge into Action for Competitive Farms and Forests”
The EU-FarmBook Forum 2025 marks the public launch of the platform to all users. EU-FarmBook is a Horizon…
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3 November 2025EU-FarmBook at the “HEALTHY SOIL AS THE FOUNDATION OF CHANGE” conference: Connecting knowledge to action
The vital link between agricultural research, policy, and practical farming was strongly reinforced last week at the impactful…
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27 October 2025Driving impact: HCC leads Stakeholder Engagement Training at PRO-WILD Consortium Meeting in Vienna
The journey for the EU-funded PRO-WILD: Protect and Promote Crop Wild Relatives officially had the second meeting last…
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20 June 2025HCC leads Stakeholder Engagement in new EUFAWREADY Project: an European defense against the cross-border “Fall Armyworm”
Highclere Consulting (HCC) is strengthening its position as a thought leader and strategic partner in sustainable agriculture at…
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11 April 2025LiveNet Project – A New Chapter for Sustainable Livestock Advisory
The Highclere Consulting team joined an inspiring gathering in Paris, France, for the Kick-off Meeting of the LiveNet project, held…
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5 March 2025Second EU-FarmBook Ambassadors’ Reflection and Refresher Workshop
The EU-Farmbook platform, an essential tool for farmers, foresters and consultants, was further developed in Brasov. On February…
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4 December 2024VISIONARY: Second SPI Workshop
The concept of a local gastronomic point was developed as for supporting small producers, more specifically fishermen…
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20 September 2024European project “PRO-WILD” to protect and promote crop wild relatives launched
A ground-breaking European initiative, “PRO-WILD”, has officially commenced with the aim of protecting and promoting crop wild relatives (CWR) that…
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23 July 2024Cross-Country Visit to Scotland, Cairngorms National Park
One of the key objectives of the MOVING project was to create an EU multi-actor platform that could…
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29 May 2024MOVING: HCC Summer School
HCC Summer School – or how we want to raise awareness among young people in Brasov county about…
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29 May 2024VISIONARY: Cross-country visit
Consolidating and extending the technical capacity of young and early-stage researchers for developing more meaningful stakeholder engagement. In…
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17 May 2024MOVING: Cross-country visit to Romania
Between the 22nd and 26th of April, we hosted a regional cross-country visit to Romania, welcoming three MOVING partners…
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11 September 2023FoodSHIFT2030: Local Gastronomic Points – from concept to operation
What is a Local Gastronomic Point? Who sets it up? What is the added value that it brings…
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18 May 2023About COCOREADO and the experience of being an ambassador in a European research project
New to the HCC team, with a background in economics and business administration, I was faced with concepts…
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20 April 2023Young people’s vision of the food system in Brașov in 2040
Are young people in Brașov thinking about their food source? What criteria determine their food choices? What is…
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19 April 2023MOVING: Planning for the future of Țara Făgăraș, as the local people want it to be
Several key stakeholders from Brașov met to discuss the future of the Țara Făgărașului region in Cobor. The…
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22 December 2022FARMWELL: Examples of social innovations
The FARMWELL project set out to address the challenges that farming communities face when it comes to…
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18 December 2022FARMWELL: Connecting farming communities
FARMWELL is a thematic network and is one of the first projects to focus exclusively on promoting social…
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31 October 2022MOVING: Sustainable tourism and developing mountain areas in Romania
MOVING is a Horizon 2020 project, carried out between 2020 and 2024 and gathering 23 partner organisations. The project…
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12 October 2022FoodSHIFT Roundtable and Showcase in Brașov
Between the 6th and the 8th of September, FAL Brașov had the chance to host the FoodSHIFT2030 partners…
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29 September 202229th September: International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
In Romania, we throw away each day about 6,000 tonnes of food. Every year, we throw away about…
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21 September 2022FoodSHIFT2030: About sustainable food systems, small producers, healthy food and engaged communities
During the week of 5 – 11 September, dedicated to the Forum of Green Cities (FOV) in Brasov,…
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1 March 2022We stand for Ukraine
15 March 2022 Update We admire and support (as much as we can) the efforts that NGOs, volunteers,…
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21 April 2021FARMWELL: Social wellbeing of farmers
Launched in January 2021, FARMWELL has a very ambitious and innovative goal: to identify the main social challenges farmers and…
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21 May 2020FoodSHIFT 2030 project announces food system support for COVID-19 recovery
Last week, the EU Innovation Action project FoodSHIFT 2030, funded by H2020 in line with the EU Food 2030 Policy…
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29 April 2020Importance of the AKIS for sustainable agriculture in the Danube River Basin
Reducing nutrient and pesticide pollution from agriculture in the Danube River Basin (DRB) has been an important objective…
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17 February 2020Farmers of the Future – A mix of foresight and design approaches
15 Farmers from and around Brașov area will participate, Thursday, Feb 20th in a workshop which is part of…
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23 January 2020Food 4.0 Brasov: How to innovate the food sector in the region
Last week, a “Workshop on entrepreneurial discovery” was organized in Brasov, to generate a direct collaboration between the…
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10 December 2019LIAISON: European Rural Innovation Contest – EURIC
The LIAISON project aimed to better understand what makes a partnership successful for innovation. Why do some partnerships have…
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26 November 2019LIAISON: Civitas Foundation won the Rural Innovation Ambassador Award with Nod Verde project
In January 2019 the Horizon 2020 project LIAISON launched a Europe-wide contest, EURIC, with the aim of seeking-out innovative, inspiring and…
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19 November 2019FoodSHIFT2030: An innovative project about the future of food in Europe, implemented in Brasov by a multi-disciplinary partnership.
Starting with January 2020, the project “FoodSHIFT2030: Food System Hubs Innovating towards Fast Transition by 2030”, launches…
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26 March 2019SALSA: Small farmers in Romania- Who will feed us in 2050? And how 2030 will look like?
Stakeholders relevant to small farmers and small foods’ business gather recently in Bucharest for a participatory foresight workshop…
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10 January 2019Rural Networking – does it get any more exciting?
Here at Highclere Consulting we consider ourselves to be seasoned and experienced ‘rural networkers’. In addition to our…
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10 January 2019Digitization in Romanian Agriculture: Three solutions to bridge two EU 2030 Agendas
The disruptive power of technology 2018 has been a year when the disruptive potential of upcoming digital technologies…
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9 January 2019Smart Villages: an idea whose time has finally come for Romania?
Rural areas across Europe are undergoing rapid change. On the one hand, persistent challenges, such as poor infrastructure,…
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3 December 2018AgriLink: Delivering Financial Advice for Varasti Cooperative Members
In November 28 – 29th 2018 Highclere Consulting, together with our financial consultant Mr Ion Dumitru, organized two…
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31 October 2018AgriLink: Living Lab – Second training in Leuven
What did I and Irina do in Leuven? Mid September 2018 we re-joined our colleagues from Italy,…
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17 June 2018SALSA: Low price, lack of labour force, limited subsidies for small farmers
The main problems that cause small farmers in Bistrița-Năsăud to produce less are the very low prices offered…
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20 May 2018SALSA: Achieving FNS beyond 2020 though enabling conditions for small farms, Rome
During the week of May 14th to 16th, Highclere Consulting organized a meeting with the coordinators of the…
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13 May 2018AgriLink: Vărăști will have its first Living Lab
In April 2018 I met with two farmers’ groups that were potential candidates for the Living Lab….
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27 April 2018Conference: “The Future of High Nature Value farming in Romania”, Cluj Napoca, Romania
The AGRARIA Fair in Cluj-Napoca is the 2nd largest agricultural show in Romania and on 22 April 2018…
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18 April 2018AgriLink: Reconsidering our scope: Farmers’ groups evaluation
Coming back from the training in Leuven I took some time to think about what we learned…
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5 March 2018AgriLink: First Living Lab team training
AgriLink project aims to improve the transition to more sustainable European agriculture through better understanding of the roles…
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10 February 2018AgriLink: Challenges before launching the AgriLink Living Lab
In the previous blog post I presented the research work I completed about Romanian advisory services, both public and…
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31 January 2018Subsistence agriculture, a socio-economic reality without a future?
Despite the technical, industrial advances in Romania and certain economic sectors that are highly developed, there is a…
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28 January 2018SALSA Annual meeting: fieldwork and stakeholders engagement
At the beginning of 2018, from 22nd to 26th of January, 45 project’s partners meet in Valencia, Spain,…
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23 January 2018AgriLink: Exploring the Romanian Advisory Services
In AgriLink, one thing we want to know is who’s an information and inspiration to the farmers –…
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10 December 2017SALSA: HCC at Global Food Security Conference in Cape Town
The 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security: Global Challenges, Local Solutions and Connected Pathways took place between…
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15 November 2017AgriLink: Highclere at 2nd Consortium meeting, Vila Real
The AgriLink consortium met for the second time on 9-10 November 2017 to discuss and move forward…