The impact accelerator implemented by the Rural Network and the state-owned sustainable development company Motiva supports the practical application and scaling of the outputs of projects that receive rural development funding. The aim of the sustainable programme, which will run until December, is to identify further opportunities for the projects and to support their realisation by utilising co-creation and service design methods.
”The projects that received rural development funding have done an outstanding job. Now, our goal is to support the progress of these development projects selected for the programme and to ensure that the results take root in the target groups that play a key role in the introduction of agricultural innovations,” states Network Coordinator Tuija Kallio from the Rural Network.
The projects are supported, for example, in the productisation and validation of the solutions created, market surveys, and identifying opportunities for further funding and pathways to impact. The key target groups of the projects are primary producers, experts and researchers in the field, and businesses who can utilise the results and innovations produced in the projects in primary production.
Impact is achieved by focusing on the perspective and benefits of the target group
Seven teams were selected from among the applicants. The teams have been involved in implementing the projects that receive rural development funding. The project teams have developed solutions related to topics such as animal welfare and health, training of those working and studying in the dairy industry, and the utilisation of data generated in primary production.
”We examined the projects that applied for the programme, especially from the perspective of scaling potential and impact – which solutions developed in the projects could be processed as far as possible and which solutions would bring the widest possible benefits to the sector. The selected projects have concrete outputs that can be deployed to different primary production operators,” says Chief Specialist Suvi Sippola who is implementing the accelerator on behalf of Motiva.
”In practice, we support the project teams in crystallising the benefits of their outputs and encouraging stakeholders to adopt the outputs. We also use business development tools to promote the commercialisation of the outputs. The accelerator also offers opportunities for cooperation between development projects and cocreation of future projects,” Sippola sums up the idea.
Projects selected for the programme:
- Smart drinking machine 2022
- Equine intestinal health and wellbeing: can a product that maintains and improves the intestinal health of horses be developed from fresh mash?
- Producing a virtual learning environment on bovine health and welfare
- Smart measurements in livestock feeding and health (smart feed) & Good for livestock: high-quality silage through sensor monitoring and controlling cowshed microbes with natural peptides
- Added value for farm businesses from data and its management: the importance of a data cooperative and creating a concept in cooperation with farm businesses
- Finnish pollinators for commercial gardens
- BIOSIVU – from oil hemp side streams to low-carbon construction
Both competed and ongoing EIB projects that received EU rural development funding and national development projects linked to primary production were allowed to apply for the impact accelerator. The purpose of the impact accelerator is to promote the scaling of project results and outputs, meaning their deployment in practice. The impact accelerator will launch on 19 September and end on 4 December 2024. The impact accelerator includes both project-specific coaching and shared meetings on different topics.
More information:
Tuija Kallio
Network Coordinator, AKIS and innovations
Rural Network
tuija.kallio@maaseutu.fi
+358 29 520 4630
Suvi Sippola
Chief Specialist
Motiva Oy
suvi.sippola@motiva.fi
+358 (0) 400 960128, +358 (0) 9 6122 5014
Read more about the primary production impact accelerator (in Finnish)
Read more about the impact accelerator concept on Motiva’s website (in Finnish).
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