More about GEA 2022

You can expect:

The Academy will supply you with expert knowledge on challenges faced by the global agrifood industry, state-of-the-art technologies relevant to the contemporary food system and best practices in innovation management. With our guests and experts from the field, you can expect to strengthen the innovation eco-systems in your country, increase the internationalization of your country’s agrifood companies and increase success rates of new product launches to leverage the benefits of public funding distributed for Research & Innovations. You will also have an opportunity to share good practices, benefit from lessons learned from other countries and participate in an international network of policy experts involved in the updates of RIS3 and the development of future operational programmes based on European Structural and Investment Funds, 2021-2027.

You will meet:

You will be part of a cohort of government representatives from 22 RIS countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine) involved in the design, implementation and/or monitoring of Research & Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategies (RIS3) and programmes related to agrifood industry, or in defining regulatory policies related to agrifood industry.

During the Academy, you will meet government executives, directors, managers, scientists and other experts working in the agrifood industry, non-governmental sector, European institutions and media.