Digital Innovation Hubs: democratising digital technologies in agriculture

The purpose of this document is to provide clarifications and recommendations about the implementation of Agriculture Digital Innovation Hubs (ADIH) in Europe. DIHs are instruments conceived to support businesses, notably SMEs, farmers, agri-cooperatives and non-tech industries, in their digital transformation. DIHs are receiving a strong back from the EC under the Digitising European Industry (DEI) initiative and in particular under the framework of the H2020 2018-2020 programme, which include specific calls for agriculture DIHs such as the DT-RUR-14-2018. ADIHs have the potential to play an important role in the democratisation of IoT and digital technologies in the European agri-food domain, but they will require significant investments from the regions and Member States, and strong coordination efforts to maximise their positive impact.

05-jun-2018