Blogs / 3 December 2018
In November 28 – 29th 2018 Highclere Consulting, together with our financial consultant Mr Ion Dumitru, organized two Living Lab sessions with 32 members of the Cooperativa Agricolă Carrefour Vărăști in Giurgiu county. The event was the culmination of several months of preparatory work with the local community of smallholders…
Blogs / 31 October 2018
What did I and Irina do in Leuven? Mid September 2018 we re-joined our colleagues from Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Latvia and Norway to the second full meeting of this year of the Living Labs teams. We met again in Leuven. The objectives were to catch up on each…
Blogs / 13 May 2018
In April 2018 I met with two farmers’ groups that were potential candidates for the Living Lab. Following these meetings, we had very long discussions about whether we could work with both, as we planned. In the end we decided that we would go for Vărăști; we will still…
Blogs / 18 April 2018
Coming back from the training in Leuven I took some time to think about what we learned and reconsider our aims and what resources are available. The result was that our plan to build a nationwide platform to supply reliable and timely information and improve communication among stakeholders no…
Blogs / 5 March 2018
AgriLink project aims to improve the transition to more sustainable European agriculture through better understanding of the roles played by farm advice in farmers’ decision-making. It builds on the premise that the full range of advisors need to be included when assessing service provision and innovation adoption. To this end,…
Blogs / 10 February 2018
In the previous blog post I presented the research work I completed about Romanian advisory services, both public and private. Now for the context of the Romanian Living Lab, to reflect on challenges at the start of this adventure. Romania has a weak and fragmented AKIS and with the dismantling of…