Innovation Hub

The CAP Network Innovation Hub is working to support the development and sharing of innovative ideas and solutions to ensure the economic, environmental and social sustainability of farming and of rural areas. It’s an initiative which aims to accelerate the uptake of knowledge, and involves: 

Mapping the Ecosystem:

Understanding the funding programmes, stakeholders and projects generating knowledge and the multipliers who can help bridge the gap.

Knowledge Sharing:

Identifying and sorting knowledge with potential for transfer or that which is of interest to a wider audience.

Innovation Scoping:

Thematic deep dives to identify innovations to support key challenges and needs in specific sectors.

Knowledge Exchange:

Transfer of these innovations to specific target groups to maximise likelihood of uptake.

Enabling Supports:

Activities that move knowledge down pathways to impact by connecting relevant actors, facilitating co-creation and providing advice.

Explore The Innovation Hub

Explore the work of the Innovation Hub below:

AKIS in Ireland

– AKIS Farmer Survey

– AKIS Actor Mapping

– AKIS Funding Mapping

– AKIS News

Knowledge Hub

– Pilot Studies

– Knowledge

– Impact

    The team are currently running three thematic pilots and have been interviewing people and projects to source knowledge with the potential to address key challenges facing the agricultural sector.

    We are also running an Innovation Spotlight series to highlight and promote sustainable innovations that may hold solutions to challenges facing the agricultural sector in Ireland.

    Explore this work below:

    Innovation News

    Ireland’s AKIS Coordination Group

    In the CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) committed to forming an Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) coordination group to improve synergies and complementarities between the institutions that make...

    Mapping of AKIS Actors in Ireland

    A map of AKIS actors in Ireland has been developed by the AKIS Coordination Group. Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) is the combined organisation and interactions between persons, organisations and institutions that produce and use knowledge and...

    Harvesting and Scaling Tacit Knowledge within AKIS

    While national agri-food authorities are key stakeholders within the Irish AKIS, innovation also occurs within social, bottom-up and interactive processes and networks. This includes projects funded under Cluster 6 of the Horizon Europe Work Programme (Food,...
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