{"id":15699,"date":"2025-03-09T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T08:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eihp.hr\/?p=15699"},"modified":"2025-03-12T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T09:21:51","slug":"projekt-value4farm-postize-kljucnu-prekretnicu-u-podrsci-odrzivosti-u-poljoprivredi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eihp.hr\/en\/projekt-value4farm-postize-kljucnu-prekretnicu-u-podrsci-odrzivosti-u-poljoprivredi\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon Europe Value4Farm project achieves key milestones in supporting sustainability in agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d078b50fdd4846ee53d56e290f1dff88\"><em>\u20ac6.9m project aims to demonstrate successful integration of biogas and agrivoltaics technologies on farms in a bid to defossilise agriculture and boost food production <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-552ca03a29ef7980086fefbba2c62dee\"><em>Three demonstration sites in Belgium, Denmark and Italy used to establish diverse environmental conditions and technical requirements <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ac54ea7421cfcef06705d4da9da6fbc6\"><em>Study establishes farmers\u2019 needs ahead of developing Decision Support Tool <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2e4bc144510c28f2c1510058b84c9eb9\"><em>Analysis of national regulations and policies carried out to stimulate implementation across Europe<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6927827c1e4ac6ad9e648e021042985d\"><em>Advisory boards set up to steer research and secure stakeholders\u2019 engagement with the project and output uptake<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine a farm that not only produces food but also generates its own renewable energy. That is exactly what the Horizon Europe project  <a href=\"https:\/\/value4farm.eu\/hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Value4Farm<\/a>.aims to achieve. By 2024, the project has taken important steps to help farmers integrate biogas and agrivoltaic technologies into their operations, with the goal of making agriculture more sustainable and food production more efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched in September 2023, Value4Farm is a \u20ac6.9m project funded by the European Union under its Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme. It aims to defossilise agriculture by integrating\nenergy production technologies \u2013 biogas and agrivoltaics \u2013 with food production systems on farms of various sizes and under various climatic and geological environments. The 42-month project brings together 14 partners from 10 countries across Europe into a Consortium working on the development of demonstration sites in Belgium, Denmark and Italy. Once the effectiveness, sustainability, feasibility and viability of the renewable-based value chains implemented on those sites are established, replication sites will be developed in Iceland, Italy and Poland. The ultimate objective of this research is to reduce the carbon footprint of the European agriculture sector, which currently contributes over 10 % of the overall GHG emissions generated by the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first phase of the project consisted in ensuring that farmers and a range of stakeholders were involved from the start to enable Consortium partners to fully understand their needs, challenges and concerns related to integrated food and production, and to use these views to steer their work towards achieving the overall objective of Value4Farm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Identifying farmers\u2019 requirements was an initial task led by the University of Reading, who conducted a\ncomprehensive survey of 170 European farmers to map their needs in terms of crops and energy demand and provide guidelines for developing a Decision Support Tool to establish the best options for their specific circumstances. Meanwhile, the Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) identified the environmental conditions and technical requirements for the Value4Farm demonstration sites, and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) carried out an analysis of the regulation framework, reviewing policies that can regulate and stimulate the implementation of the Value4Farm innovative value chains. Finally, the World Biogas Association (WBA) led the recruitment of external stakeholders into two Advisory Boards\u2013 technology provides and end-users - whose role will be to regularly review progress and provide feedback and expertise to steer the project towards the successful deployment of the Value4Farm solutions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next phase of the project, now ongoing and led by project coordinators Inagro, focuses on developing flameless microturbines, establishing renewable-based agricultural protocols for different regions, and conducting a comprehensive study on off-grid biomethane plants. The protocols have now been published, marking significant progress in the partners\u2019 efforts to implement these sustainable agricultural practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sander Vandendriessche<\/strong>, Researcher with project leaders Inagro, said: \"Farmers are challenged with the task of working more sustainably without sacrificing their productivity. Once again this year, Value4Farm demonstrates that this balance is achievable, proving that renewable energy and agriculture can coexist seamlessly. We eagerly anticipate taking even more significant steps in 2025 to further this success story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eihp.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Value4Farm_logo.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15440\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zamislite farmu koja ne samo da proizvodi hranu, ve\u0107 i stvara vlastitu obnovljivu energiju. Upravo to \u017eeli posti\u0107i Horizon Europe projekt Value4Farm. Do 2024. projekt je poduzeo va\u017ene korake kako bi pomogao poljoprivrednicima da integriraju bioplin i agro-fotonaponske tehnologije u svoje poslovanje, s ciljem da poljoprivreda postane odr\u017eivija, a proizvodnja hrane u\u010dinkovitija. 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