Day: March 29, 2026

PAMEA was pleased and honoured to take part in the launch of the HU-HUB, a key milestone within the AGRITECHErasmus+ project.

The event brought together besides the AGRITECH Consortium members, MATE, DDTG and GAZDA KONTROLL, a strong mix of stakeholders from education, industry, and policy, reflecting the growing interest in digital transformation in agriculture. Participation exceeded expectations, with active engagement and discussion throughout the session.

The high turnout and the quality of exchanges confirmed that there is real demand for spaces like the AGRITECH HUBs. These hubs are not just a project output, but a practical step toward connecting learning, innovation, and real sector needs. As defined in the project design, they aim to bring together education and enterprise to support hands-on, future-oriented training in AgriTech .

PAMEA’s involvement focused on supporting dissemination and stakeholder engagement, ensuring that the HUB concept reaches and resonates with the right audiences across Europe.

The HU-HUB launch sets a solid starting point. What matters now is keeping this momentum and turning interest into sustained participation and concrete learning activities, starting with 14.04.2026.

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On 26 March 2026, PAMEA hosted the second AGRINOVA Good Practices Exchange online meeting (10:00–13:00, Europe/Vienna). The session brought together partners and stakeholders for a practical exchange focused on real implementation experience and transferable approaches. 

In difference to the First Meeting, this second meeting featured 12 best practice presentations, each adding clear value through concrete examples, applied methods, and lessons learned. The topics covered a wide range of sustainable and smart farming solutions, including biostimulants, low-carbon approaches, intralogistics, precision seeding, soil conservation, differentiated nutrient application, drone-supported plant protection, digital technologies in livestock farming, social cooperation models, and AI applications in agriculture.

The session covered a strong mix of sustainable and smart farming applications, ranging from the benefits of bacterial biostimulants and a Czech low-label carbon initiative, to practical intralogistics and precision seeding, soil conservation and differentiated nutrient application, drone-supported plant protection, and digital technologies used in livestock farming; it also included social innovation through agricultural cooperatives, emerging AI applications in agriculture, and two recorded case studies focused on irrigation profitability and the shift from volume-based production to value-added products.

The good practices collected during this session will support AGRINOVA’s ongoing work on project outputs, including the development of guidance and training materials.

Thank you to all presenters and participants for the excellent preparation, active engagement, and meaningful contributions that made this meeting a success.

PAMEA took part in the AGRINOVA Kick-off Meeting in Bucharest, marking the official start of a new Erasmus+ cooperation project focused on sustainable farming solutions, vocational education and training, and the green and digital transition in agriculture. 

On 23-24.03, PAMEA participated in the Kick-off Meeting of AGRINOVA in Bucharest, Romania, together with the project coordinator, USAMV Bucharest, and the project partners from Turkey, Albania, Greece, and Bulgaria. AGRINOVA, titled Developing Sustainable Farming Solutions, is an Erasmus+ KA220-VET project with a total budget of €250,000 and a duration of 24 months, running from November 2025 to October 2027.

For PAMEA, the meeting in Bucharest was an important opportunity to align with partners on the project’s objectives, work plan, and first implementation steps. Within AGRINOVA, PAMEA will play an active role in co-leading work related to the AGRINOVA Guide, including focus groups with farmers and VET teachers, and will also contribute to the pedagogical structure of the curriculum and Training of Trainers activities. In addition, PAMEA will support dissemination and communication activities, helping to strengthen the project’s visibility and impact across European networks. 

The Bucharest meeting set the basis for the cooperation ahead and opened the project’s first phase of work, focused on research, stakeholder engagement, and the collection of good practices in sustainable and smart farming. Through this collaboration, AGRINOVA seeks to strengthen the capacity of VET providers, improve links between education and the agricultural sector, and support the uptake of greener and more innovative practices at local and European level. 

PAMEA is pleased to contribute to this partnership and looks forward to working with the consortium to support more resilient, practical, and future-oriented agricultural training across Europe. Stay tuned for updates as AGRINOVA progresses with research activities, curriculum development, pilot actions, and dissemination events across partner countries.