CORENET AND EU4ADVICE AT THE ESEE2025
Different representatives from the twin projects COREnet and EU4Advice attended the 27th European Seminar on Extension & Education – ESEE, in Vila Real (Portugal) on June 30 – July 4, 2025.
ESEE is aimed at supporting discussions between science and practice, to explore concepts, frameworks, methods, tools, and empirical evidence related to transformative transitions of the agrifood system.
The main theme of this edition was “Inclusivity and Transformations of Agricultural Extension and Education”, involving more than 150 participants from over 25 worldwide countries.
Among those, Fedele Colantuono representing COREnet gave a presentation about “The functioning and potential of European online Advisory Networks: the case of short food supply chain advisors”, contributing to the TOPIC 2 sessions – Collective learning, innovation processes and capacity building: new tools and methodologies.
Whereas, Lisa Blix Germundsson presented the work “How Do Advisory Services Translate into Improved Performance and Impact of Short Food Supply Chains? An Analysis of “Golden Cases” identified in the COREnet project”, within TOPIC 5 sessions – How education and advice drive agrifood systems transformations.
One more initiative coming from our project partners has been the organisation of a “Special Session: Advisory skills at the frontier – insight from short food supply chain advising from Horizon Europe Advisory Networks COREnet and EU4Advice” where Fedele Colantuono, Jan Willem van der Schans, Marta Fernandez, Áine Macken-Walsh and Lisa Blix Germundsson contributed to a fruitful panel session, sharing their experience related to advisory services and advisors’ skills, also promoting a round table discussion among attendants interested to this topic.
The event also gave the opportunity of touching local farms initiatives dealing with innovative and resilience solutions through dedicated field visits on agricultural heritage systems, agroecological transitions in Douro wine region, and projects against abandonment of mountain pasture areas. Whereas the last day was dedicated to a training session organised by the Attractiss project through interactive training knowledge and techniques.
The event was a great opportunity for COREnet and EU4Advice to share results, promote the SFSC advisory network and networking with different experts. Thanks to all project partners contributing to it!
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Photo credits: Fedele Colantuono
