Tech 4 RegenAg
Enabling Technologies for Advancing Regenerative Agriculture in the EU.
Overview
Tech4RegenAg accelerates the adoption of regenerative agriculture by combining data-driven insights, pilots, education and innovation contributing to building a resilient, sustainable and scalable European agricultural ecosystem.
What Tech4RegenAg Delivers
Tech4RegenAg drives transformational change in European agriculture by:
- Implementing on-farm pilots and demonstrations
- Creating data-driven solutions and a federated data space (RegenAg-X)
- Supporting startup acceleration and innovation partnerships
- Strengthening policy engagement and consumer trust
- Enabling education, training and human capital development
- Promoting cross-sector collaboration and evidence-based decision-making
Tech4RegenAg Action Areas
Policy & Regulatory Engagement
Enabling supportive frameworks for RegenAg adoption
RegenAg-X Data Space
Stakeholders participation in a secure, federated agrifood data ecosystem for actionable insights and collaboration.
Pilot Implementation & Consultancy Support
Testing and validating regenerative practices in real farm contexts with Farmers as partners
Education & Training
Building skills and knowledge across stakeholder groups as farmers, startups, agrifood professionals among others
Startup Ecosystem & Corporate Engagement
Accelerating tech innovation and strategic partnerships with new and upcoming startups
Consumer Awareness & Trust
Improving perception and demand for RegenAg products
How can Tech4RegenAg and the RegenAg-X Data Space support the agrifood and farming businesses?
A flagship output of the project, RegenAg-X is a secure, Gaia-X compliant data space that enables stakeholders to:
- share data securely with full data sovereignty
- leverage analytics and AI for smarter practices
- develop traceability and sustainability insights
- unlock new revenue streams through data monetization and collaboration through RegenAg-X.
This novel platform can empower farmers, producers, researchers, corporations and policymakers with real-time intelligence on the farming and agrifood key data and allow the establishment of new partnership opportunities.
How does Tech4RegenAg support Startups? - Our Acceleration Programs
Innovation is a key enabler of regenerative agriculture adoption. Within Tech4RegenAg, dedicated Startup Acceleration Programmes support AgTech startups in validating, piloting and scaling technologies that contribute to regenerative farming systems across Europe.
What we do
- Capacity Building: A foundational phase to strengthen startups' strategic, legal, IP management, commercial and market readiness.
- Pilot Design: Assess your technology maturity and co-create pilots with farmers and corporate partners to validate your technology in real-world conditions, and advance towards market deployment and investability.
- Demo Day Online: Pitch your technology and validate your pilot to a panel of renowned experts and stakeholders from the agrifood sector. Top performers will gain the opportunity to be connected to suitable partners for pilot opportunities that lie outside the scope of the acceleration programme and are independently facilitated by BGI.
What startups gain
- Business model, legal, ESG and sales support
- Co-creation of pilots with farmers and corporate partners
- Strategic connections across the European agrifood ecosystem
- Visibility through Demo Days and Tech4RegenAg dissemination activities
- Pathways to pilot implementation and further collaboration
Startups supported through these programmes are fully integrated into the Tech4RegenAg ecosystem, contributing to pilot implementation, data generation and innovation-driven impact.
Startup Acceleration Program Edition 1 - 2025
41 startup applications received, with 10 selected startups primarily at TRL 6–7, supported through mentoring, expert feedback and ecosystem engagement.
The program selected 3 finalists:
- Agribot – [https://agribot.ai/] creates accessible technology that solves real-world problems in the Agri-food industry by providing early insight.
- BioArmix – [https://www.bioarmix.com/] tackles agriculture‘s urgent issue: bacterial plant pathogens.
- Nature Robots – [https://lnkd.in/dHEKVuSd] develops the leading AI & Robotics Design-in Software Platform for Regenerative & Complex Farming.
Startup Acceleration Program Edition 2 - 2026
31 startup applications received so far.
The program will take place from January to March 2026.
Watch the Tech4RegenAg Events and Webinars
Timeline
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July 2024
Project Kick-Off
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July 2024
First collection of soil samples for baseline
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September 2024
Start of Farmer Engagement
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October 2024
Project presentation at EIT Food NextBite
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November 2024
Participation at Foro Datagri 2024
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November 2024
Participation at the Gaia-X Association for Data and Cloud (AISBL)
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December 2024
Participation at Eclipse XFSC Workshop
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December 2024
Launch of RegenAg-X Agri-food data space
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January 2025
RegenAg-X approved as qualified project by Gaia-X
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February 2025
Participation at Gaia-X Data Spaces Business Committee DSBC Workshop in the Hague
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February 2025
Participation in Technical Workshop on Data Space protocol and Eclipse components in Madrid
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March 2025
Project presentation at the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Animals
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April 2025
Tech4RegenAg presented at RegenAg-X in Gaia-X Market-X in Valencia Spain
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May 2025
European consumer study
”Farming Smarter with Data Spaces: Take Control, Save Time, Earn More” Webinar
Tech4RegenAg showcased in ReGenomics POD is a 4-part series
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June 2025
1st Startup Acceleration Program launched
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July 2025
“Lessons Learned from Regenerating EU Agricultural Policy” Webinar
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September 2025
3 Finalists selected for the 1st Tech4RegenAg Startup Acceleration programme:
Agribot – https://agribot.ai/; BioArmix – https://www.bioarmix.com/ and Nature Robots – https://lnkd.in/dHEKVuSd.Tech4RegenAg “RegenAg-X” is approved as a Gaia-X Europe Lighthouse Project.
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October 2025
“How can regenerative agriculture be monitored for effective outcome-based measures?” Webinar
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November 2025
RegenAg-X, developed under Tech4RegenAg showcased at the Gaia-X Summit 2025 in Porto.
Tech4RegenAg featured in Agrifood Open Day event in Portugal
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December 2025
Tech4RegenAg featured at the i-Danha Food Lab event
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January 2026
2nd Startup Acceleration Program launched
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