Conceptual Grounds and Common Understandings

This document outlines the shared frameworks, key concepts, and technical terminology drawn from agricultural and forestry extension, Innovations- und Wissenssystemforschung, and human resource and organizational development.

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AFKIS Inventory

The AFKIS inventory provides a comprehensive overview of Agricultural and Forestry Knowledge and Innovation System (AFKIS) infrastructures and the primary agricultural and forestry advisory services at national and, wo anwendbar, regionale Ebenen.

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Repository of Required Competencies of an Innovation Advisor

This document serves as a repository of essential skills and competencies needed by “Welche Rolle spielt NAK in i2connect” and identifies key factors that foster a supportive organizational environment. The findings are based on an extensive literature review and expert interviews.

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Scientific Papers

This deliverable includes four scientific articles produced within the project, with contributions from the University of Hohenheim (UHOH) and Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (ILVO). These articles enhance understanding of core aspects of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AUGE) and the competencies required for innovation advisors.

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Overview of Successful Innovation Activities

These document summarizes key insights gathered from project partners, covering topics, learnings, and reflections relevant to interactive innovation theory and the practical experiences of actors supporting innovation processes.

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Report on the Reflective Capitalisation Approach

These reports present findings from the consortium’s reflective capitalisation approach, highlighting insights and outcomes from this method.

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Individual Reports from the Field Review

These documents compiles individual reports, in both local languages and English, documenting findings from field reviews of practical cases. The peer-reviewed cases of successful interactive innovation are identified by i2connect partners across different countries and selected by a panel of experts based on criteria ensuring relevance and value to the project.

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Report on Best Practices in Support of Interactive Innovation

Theses documents details the process used to identify, beschreiben, and validate good practices evident in the selected and reviewed practical innovation cases as well as a list of good practices.

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Recommendations for Didactical Strategies

This document summarize the recommendation for the didactical strategy developed in the project and through the different training activities

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Didactical Concept and Toolkit for Advisor Trainings

This toolkit explores the role of innovation in advisory work, highlighting methods that have evolved from introducing new production techniques to optimizing costs and subsidies. It provides strategies to foster innovation-friendly advisory practices.

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Coaching guidelines

Every i2c 3day innovation support method training is complemented by a 6-month coaching period after the training. The goal is to offer a target-tailored support to the rural advisors in their individual innovation projects and processes. The coaching period intents to improve the transfer of the training content into practice.

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Methods and Tools for an “Innovation-Friendly” Management of Advisory Services

Based on a survey conducted in August and September 2020, this report includes a mind map designed to facilitate discussions among managers during “Excellence Classes.”

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Summer School Programme and Training Material

This document highlights the program and training materials developed for the summer school, aimed at training students and educators.

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Training of Trainers’ Programme and Training Material

This document provides an overview of the program and training materials created for the “Train the Trainers” initiative.

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Learnings from Cross-Visits

Cross-visits are activities allowing advisors and farmers to discover innovations in other European countries. These documents presents key learnings from these cross-visits.

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Guidelines and Actions for Networking, Ermöglichende Umgebung, and Educational Support

This report describes the guidelines and actions for promoting networking, creating an enabling environment, and providing educational support.

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Education Report

This deliverable provides a comprehensive overview of the i2connect summer schools, designed to help replicate efforts in developing social skills for young rural advisors and researchers. It includes a detailed presentation of organizational and educational activities, evaluations, and references to relevant materials.

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Audio-Visual Material on Lessons Learned by Advisors

This report summarizes all multimedia materials produced throughout the project, showcasing the lessons learned by advisors.

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Practice Abstract

Effective communication of project outcomes is essential to encourage the widespread adoption of best practices. These document’s main purpose is to disseminate original, inspirierend, and replicable practices in the field of interactive innovation support.

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Report on Conferences and Workshops

These reports highlight key outcomes from the four regional stakeholder workshops, as well as from the mid-term and final conferences.

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