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This project reaches out to the little ones at the European scientist's event

European Researchers' Night is a scientific dissemination project promoted by the European Commission within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions of the Horizon Europe program, which has been taking place simultaneously in almost 400 European cities since 2005.  The Night 2024 offers hundreds of free activities in which researchers will bring their work to the citizens in a playful way through experiments, workshops, lectures, etc.

 

The Agri-Food Institute of Aragon (IA2) has once again participated in the new edition of the European Researchers' Night on September 27th, 2024. Pilar Oñate and María Garrido participated in the “Research Fair” in CaixaForum Zaragoza with the stand LOFT: Local Food Trace, a project on traceability of local food, through an interactive kahoot game about the path of food, for teenagers. The novelty this year was several board games on the importance of local food to raise awareness among children, rewarding them with a tomato keychain, which is the logo of the project.


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This Erasmus + project in which IA2 participates presented a poster in the session on digital transformation

The city of Barcelona hosted during the 3rd and 4th of April the XII CYTA-CESIA 2024 National Congress, an event in which LOFT, an Erasmus + project in which the Agri-Food Institute of Aragon (IA2) participates, was present. This congress, one of the most important nationally within its field, pays attention to topics such as food and health, food safety, advances in food processing technologies, digital transformation or food sustainability.

Specifically, the project participated on April 4 in the Digital Transformation session, where a communication was presented in poster format entitled "Evaluation of the digital competencies of local food producers and analysis of their training needs". María Garrido presented part of the work package led by the IA2 within the LOFT project. As a starting point, interviews with producers and local management authorities were proposed with the aim of knowing the current situation of the sector in digitization, identifying the training needs of the LFP (Local Food Producers, local food producers), also relying on the local authorities with management competences and compiling good practices of the agri-food sector.

These surveys were conducted between May-September 2023 and a total of 120 responses were received between the four partner countries (Turkey, Italy, France and Spain), from which the following results have been identified: that LFPs exercise a low use of digital tools, while local authorities and management agents overestimate the digitization of the sector; that most LFPs did not received any previous digitization course but are interested in doing so in the future, especially in online sales and marketing, and that LFPs prefer online learning formats while Local management authorities and actors opt for face-to-face events due to the complexity of the digitization issue.

The study therefore concludes that there is a clear need for digital training for local producers in all the countries of the study. Of all the prioritized training needs, respondents show a greater preference for online training on digital marketing and sales tools.



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This Erasmus+ project gave visibility to local producers at the event

The LOFT project was present on Sunday March 24 in the VI Runizar Animal Race giving visibility to local food production. LOFT had a stand in which free fruit from local producers was distributed to the participants in this event, which took place at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Zaragoza and its surroundings and which had more than 400 people attending.

LOFT is an Erasmus + project funded by the European Union and developed by a consortium of five partners from four Mediterranean countries (France, Spain, Italy and Turkey) in which the University of Zaragoza participates - through the Agri-Food Institute of Aragon (IA2). Targeted at small local food producers, consumers, local authorities and the general public, the project aims to contribute to EU policy on harnessing the potential of digital technologies for teaching and learning, and developing the digital skills of local small-scale food producers, involving them on the path of digital transformation.     

   


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