Category: Agriculture

FASTER’s Living Lab in practice: Summer School for Farmer Advisory Services agents of change

In the frame of its Living Lab process, FASTER will be organising a Summer School for Farmer Advisory Services between May 24th and June 4th 2021. The Summer School will provide tailored training activities on adaptation to climate change to practitioners of the agricultural sector engaged in the Tunisian Farm Advisory System. These courses aim…
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FASTER joins the European Bioeconomy Network (EuBioNet)

The European Bioeconomy Network (EuBioNet) is a proactive alliance of EU funded projects dealing with Bioeconomy promotion, communication and support. The main goal is to maximise the efforts, increase knowledge sharing, networking, mutual learning, and coordinate joint activities. FASTER is proud to be part of this alliance and bring together different projects from the Mediterranean…
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FASTER’s step forward to prevent climate change: Appointment as EU Climate Pact Ambassador

We are excited to announce that Mr Leonardo Piccinetti, member of FASTER and Managing Director of  Europe for Business, has been appointed as an Ambassador by the European Climate Pact Secretariat. The EU Climate Pact was launched in December 2020. Since then, it had provided a space for working together to tackle climate change and…
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Navigating through FASTER E-Learning Platform

FASTER is implementing an E-learning Platform to achieve its mission to reinforce the research excellence and knowledge transfer capacity of INRGREF on innovative land and water management to mitigate climate change and foster its implementation through Farm Advisory Systems (FAS) among all the interested stakeholders. The learners will have various courses covering different topics to…
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Postponement of the 1st Faster Spring School and Living Lab Workshop

Due to the international scope of COVID-19, the FASTER project decided to postpone its activities initially scheduled for March. Following the directives of the European Commission, the recommendations of the World Health Organization and the international framework in which the project takes place, the H2020 FASTER project has decided to postpone the organization of its…
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Faster Living Lab preparatory meeting

Participants discussed the selection of topics of interest for the realization of a set of factsheets on climate change adaptation solutions. 📅 13 February 2020📍Tabarka, Tunisia The H2020 project Faster has amongst its objectives to set up one Living lab in order to test specific Farm Advisory System solutions targeting the complete series of actors…
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(POSTPONED) 1st Faster Spring School for Farmer Advisory Services Agents of Change

FASTER organises its Spring School Program on Farmer Advisory Services. Two Spring Schools will be held until 2021. The first Spring School consists on 5-days activities including training, interactive workshops and field trips to interact and share experiences, as well as contributing to the co-design of adaptation solutions and improving the production of relevant scientific…
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Publish in the MDPI open-access journal “Sustainability”

Participate in #ResearchExcellence The MDPI open-access journal is releasing a special issue focused on “Sustainable Applications in Agriculture”. It is in line with FASTER’s objective to support excellence in research on adaptation to climate change in land and water management. A call for contributions from researchers active in the sector is currently open. As stated…
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