WoW – ISS in action: Overcoming Barriers to Innovation on Small and Medium Farms
📅 19 November 2025 | 🕙 10:00–11:30 CET | 💻 Online via Teams🎙️ Hosted by modernAKIS & ATTRACTISS | Part of the AKISConnect WoW – Webinars on Wednesdays series
Innovation is vital for the resilience and sustainability of small and medium-sized farms—but many face daily challenges such as limited resources, funding uncertainty, or lack of support networks. In this session, you will hear how farmers, advisors, and networks across Europe overcome these barriers to keep innovating.
✨ What to Expect:
- Personal story: Arta Zikmane, Latvian farmer, shares how she overcame barriers and established her new farm successfully
- Collaboration insights: Petri Linna, Finnish Smart Farming Thematic Group, on keeping collaboration alive beyond projects
- Practical examples: Advisors and farmers from Estonia on exploring and adopting new technologies in practice
- Innovation without funding: Peter Paree, Dutch advisor, on sustaining innovation even without confirmed external support
🌿Be part of the next WoW! This webinar brings together real-life stories and practical insights from across Europe, showing how barriers to innovation can be overcome. Participants will discover ways to stay innovative despite limited resources, strengthen collaboration across research, advisory, and farming communities, support peer learning and technology adoption, and foster an entrepreneurial, solution-oriented mindset.
đź“© Questions? Contact Maria Suomela at maria.suomela@proagria.fi