Project title: Smart Solutions to Empower Small- and Medium-Sized Farms as Guardians of the Territory
Project name: GUARDIANS
Call title: Horizon Europe - Agro-ecological approaches in African agriculture systems (HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-12)
Project registration number: 101084468-2
Project description:
The general objective of GUARDIANS is the empowerment of small- and medium-sized farms through smart solutions. A set of nine digital innovative solutions will be tested in four testbeds, and piloted in 27 small- and medium-sized farms (including different types of crops, grassland, and livestock in Spain, Italy, Sweden, UK, and Czechia), reaching a total of 95 farmers through the rollout and replication phase.
Total eligible expenditure: 4 997 500 EUR
Expenses for CZU: 195 500 EUR
Physical implementation: 01.06.2026 – 31.05.2027
Project coordination: CTIC - Fundación CTIC Centro Tecnológico para el desarrollo en Asturias de las tecnologías de la información
Participants
- Campoastur Productos y Servicios Sociedad Cooperativa Asturiana
- CENTRAL LECHERA ASTURIANA
- Comunidad de Regantes del Canal del Pisuerga
- Corporación Alimentaria Peasanta, S.A. (CAPSA Food)
- Flox AB
- Fondazione ICONS
- Fondazione links
- FOODSCALE HUB GREECE ASSOCIATION FOR ENTREPREUNERSHIP AND INNOVATION ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA
- Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León
- I.A.C. SOC. CONSORTILE PER AZIONI
- Naturbeteskött i Sverige, Nofima - The Norwegian food research institute
- RINA CONSULTING S.P.A, SERIDA - Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario
- SHINE 2Europe
- SMACT scpa
- Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL), UAB - Art21
- Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
- Zemědělské družstvo Květná
Principal Investigator for CZU Faculty of Engineering: prof. Dr. Ing. František Kumhála
Webpage: guardians-project.eu