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Meetings

The PLAID Pan-European Meeting was held in Zagreb, Croatia 9th-11th October. The meeting brought together PLAID Partners from 13 partner organisations from12 Countries across European, together with their invited representatives from their case studie, consisting of both farmers and Advisors. The meeting consisted of a series of Worshops to discuss on farm demonstration in their representative countries. The experience allowed Farmers, Advisors and the PLAID partners to discuss best practice of on-farm demonstration. There was also an opportunity for Farmers and Advisors to participate in... Read more
Poster presentations
Leuven, Belgium 28th March 2018 The Meeting was hosted by PLAID Partner Innovatiesteunpunt (Marleen Gysen) The meeting was attended by representatives from PLAID, AgriDemo and subcontracted partners, from the following countries Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Norway Sweden Switzerland The Netherlands UK Also members of the International Advisory Broad and the National Stakeholders Consultative Groups were present. The meeting addressed the following areas Summary of inventory, database access, FarmDemo hub and interactive map. Summary of the Inventory by  country ... Read more
Meeting of Eastern European Countries in Krakow
Krakow, Poland 20th March 2018 The Meeting was hosted by PLAID Partner Delphy (Harm Brinks) and AgriDemo Partner CDR Janusz Dabrowski The meeting was attended by representatives from PLAID, AgriDemo and subcontracted partners, from the following countries Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Poland Romania Slovakia Serbia The meeting  addressed the following areas Summary of inventory, database access, FarmDemo hub and interactive map. Summary of the Inventory by  country  poster session Discussion of Poster session Southern European Country summary reports Summary of... Read more
PLAID Project coordinator Lee-Ann sutherland
Venice 7th February 2018 TheMeeting was hosted by PLAID Partner VINIDEA (Gianni Trioli and Cristina Micheloni), on the Italian island of San Servelo, located in the Venetian lagoon. The meeting was attended by representatives from PLAID, PLAID IAB, AgriDemo and subcontracted partners, from the following countries Austria Bulgaria Cyprus France Greece Italy Malta Portugal Slovenia Spain The meeting addressed the following areas Summary of inventory, database access, FarmDemo hub and interactive map. Summary of the Inventory by  country  poster session Discussion of Poster session Southern... Read more
Workshop discussion
Venice 5-6th February 2018 The Meeting was hosted by PLAID Partner VINIDEA (Gianni Trioli and Cristina Micheloni), on the Italian island San Servelo, located in the Venetian lagoon. The meeting was attended by 32 PLAID partners and addressed the following areas European wide Inventory collection summary, interactive map and FarmDemo hub introduction (WP3) Case study summary, data collection methods, case reporting (WP5) Virtual filming progress, Virtual Farm introduction (WP4) Introdcution to Governance, Good Practice Recommendations and Decision-support Tools (WP6) PLAID Project Management... Read more
FarmDemo meeting at The James Hutton Institute
Summary: The PLAID consortium has again joined with their sister consortium AgriDemoF2F for the second consortium meeting, held in Aberdeen. The meeting was hosted by The James Hutton Institute, with all the meetings being held in the meeting rooms at the Craigiebuckler site Aberdeen. The joint conference Hotel was the Aberdeen Treetops Hotel. The main objectives for the meeting were: To meet with the two International Advisory Boards Agree the inventory collection guidelines Discuss and agree country approach to collecting the inventory Provide training on the inventory collection... Read more
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Summary: The PLAID consortium joined their sister consortium, AgriDemoF2F, in Ghent for the kick off meetings, these were hosted by AgriDemo's Coordinator Fleur Marchand from ILVO-Institute for Agriculture and Fisheries Research. During the three days of meetings the two consortium got to know each other and understand their roles within their own project and work packages. The meetings were designed to enable information to be disseminated and discussions to be started. The steering groups decided on how best to proceed on joint work packages and deliverables, allowing coherent groups to be ... Read more