CREDIT Vibes presents a cloud of Creativity, Research, Education, Development, Innovation, and Transformation (CREDIT) where the training of the highly-skilled researchers and non-research staff is the priority. CREDIT Vibes are launched healthy food/feed, a healthy eco-friendly environment, and healthy life on a healthy planet. It was guided by the idea that if Maize Research Institute from Serbia is structurally transformed and thus improved transfer of agro-technology and agro-knowledge and increase number of manageable projects, other institutions in Serbia and the region will copy that pattern and enhance-self. When several smaller micro-transformations come together, the community's interest rises to the global level, and excellence is born. The main project's objectives are to transform and access excellence following the scientific and technology roadmaps and thus extend networking and collaboration in the region and Europe Research Area. CREDIT Vibes expects broader scientific, economic, and societal effects in raising the excellence of Maize Research Institute, which will open new science pathways and thus increase the number of manageable projects. Furthermore, increasing the transfer of agro-knowledge and agro-technologies into the economy by 15% will be the main long-term propeller of economic growth.

In Slovenia Sustainable food production and Ecology are now key priorities of all national strategies. However as a small country it faces lack of financial and human resources which are moreover dispersed along different research institutions. A justified model for governmental investment in a top research CoE is to horizontally unite the research capacities around existing infrastructure. KIS being the only public research institute in the field of agriculture with its mission and research facilities and experimental stations across Slovenia, has the potential to integrate RDI efforts in the field. The goal of the project is to establish a Slovenian Center of Excellence in Agricultural Sciences (SLO-ACE) as a joint initiative of Agricultural Institute of Slovenia - KIS (supported by five top research Slovenian institutes) and two world-class institutes i.e. Aarhus University (AU), Denmark and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France. The Teaming project will aim to: • improve research and innovation performance of KIS and capacity of Slovenian agriculture to achieve a competitive position on the national, regional and global level • increase the Slovenian scientific capabilities and enable agriculture sector to engage in a strategic growth path for economic development • establish links with innovative clusters • provide access to foreign knowledge flanked with technological modernizations and increased mobility of qualified scientists The expected impact is to achieve significant improvement of research in agriculture and food and innovation culture in Slovenia and to create a development model transferable within the South East European regions. Benefits will also accrue to the partners’ institutions from the more intensive R&I performers, in terms of access to new research avenues, increased creativity and development of new approaches as basis for innovation, as well as a source for increased mobility of scientists.

<< Objectives >>Com4AgriPlant is addressing EU goal on environment and fight against climate change through improving the competences of adult educators, explicitly in the field of sustainable farming and environmentally responsible behaviour related to food consumption. We plan to improve the sustainability competences of the project main target groups in the field of promoting plant-based farming and consumption as the opposite of conventional farming as being more environmentally friendly.<< Implementation >>First we will research existing promotional strategies and LLL opportunities on plant-based farming at all levels (local to EU). This will be followed by development of learning methodology and innovative toolkit for promotion of plant-based production & consumption, based on comics as innovative learning tools for adults. This will continue in development of training course for promotion of plant-based production. All developed materials will be uploaded on Com4AgriPlant e-learning platform.<< Results >>Com4AgriPlant planned results are: 1. comprehensive report on promotional strategies and LLL opportunities on plant-based farming, 2. learning methodology and innovative toolkit for promotion of plant-based production and consumption using comics as innovative learning tools, 3.training course including curriculum and training material for conducting trainings to final beneficiaries, 4. eLearning platform including interactive toolkit and guidebook with all developed materials.

PerceptiveSentinel project will deliver PerceptiveSentinel platform - an INTERMEDIATE EO service that will through seamless access to highly pre-processed DATA provide: - MODELLING and PUBLISHING capabilities for - DESIGN, EXPOSURE and EXPLOITATION of EO-processing chains for - FORECASTING, MONITORING and HISTORICAL ANALYSIS in different domain fields, based on - MULTI-TEMPORAL and MULTI-SPECTRAL EO-Data and Non-EO Data MODELLING. PerceptiveSentinel platform will combine BIG-DATA SOURCES, (2) both spatial and non-spatial, (2) whether remote sensed, observed in-situ or derived (3) whether public, private or proprietary—onto a single system. The data will be transformed into action by applying STREAMING MACHINE LEARNING to UNLOCK its value. Platform’s capabilities will significantly shorten development cycles, enabling rapid development of EO services, opening new opportunities for large-scale exploitation of data and provide the means for new EO “downstream players” to smoothly enter the market without the investment into their own storage and processing capabilities. Commercialisation approach will be based on (1) FREE and OPEN access to services and data, (2) OPEN-VALUE-CHAIN approach, (3) LOW COST of services and on (4) DELIVERING VALUE TO END USERS. It is our intention that PerceptiveSentinel platform becomes FIRST value and benefit sharing EO platform in the world. We intent to expose an alternative business model building on COOPERATIVE VALUE CREATION and capture, including all aspects of EO value chain from data providing, product/service development, publishing and consuming. We believe in synergetic effects of cooperation, using PerceptiveSentinel platform to establish alliances with external partners, taking an open approach to participation and building joint commercial success on the delivery of new added value.