Wat was de uitdaging/het probleem aangepakt?

Purpose & mission: Connecting the universes of agriculture & voedsel, entrepreneurship & innovation around local consumption issues; creating synergies at the inter-cantonal level, identifying and sustaining specific support.

Star’Terre supports and accompanies the actors of the Lake Geneva food ecosystem in their commitment to share, innovate and better value

production and the agricultural & food know-how. Supporting and accompanying innovative projects linked to local consumption to encourage their development, enhance and reinvent them is a key objective.

Star’Terre provides:

– a simple, smooth coaching system for entrepreneurs who are often isolated in the long term or sometimes oriented towards inadequate services,

– a network of expertise and support for new initiatives

– a dedicated desk for topics and issues at the interface between agricultural & food ecosystems and entrepreneurshipa, offering professional advice,

– a knowledge base providing specific information, tools and skills

Star’Terre associates farmers, ondernemers, public and private organizations, Onderzoek, the ecosystem supporting entrepreneurship and innovation, agricultural extension actors and a large network of specific skills.

https://www.starterre.ch/

Wat zijn de succesfactoren bij het oplossen van het probleem??

Pro-active public support

Partnerships in conceptualization and implementation

The method of calling for project proposals

Wat waren de belangrijkste uitdagingen tijdens het innovatieproces??

Securing funding

Adjust the scale and type of response as necessary (ensure that the end users/beneficiairies of added value are the farmers)

Find the right size ( do not get too big but reproduce)

Welke rol speelt de adviseur of adviesdienst met de praktische zaak?

Kennisbewustzijn en -uitwisseling, Adviserend, consultancy en backstopping gericht op het oplossen van complexe problemen, die tijdens het innovatieproces moet worden geboden en gebaseerd op de eisen van actoren en de gezamenlijke constructie van oplossingen, Demand articulation, to allow actors to have access to new ideas, identify their needs, define their objectives and express clear demands to other actors, Netwerkfacilitatie en -bemiddeling, netwerken helpen organiseren of versterken, de relaties tussen de belangrijkste actoren te verbeteren en de diensten op elkaar af te stemmen, zodat ze elkaar kunnen aanvullen, Capacity building, aimed at increasing innovation actors’ capacities in order to play their roles in the innovation process, Verbetering/ondersteuning van de toegang tot hulpbronnen door de toegang tot inputs te vergemakkelijken, faciliteiten en financiering, Het faciliteren van toegang tot nieuwe netwerken en actoren

Voor het delen van ervaringen uit de praktijkcasus, Neem contact op

Magali Estève & Astrid Gerz

magali.esteve@agridea.ch, +41 (0)787112377; astrid.gerz@agridea.ch, +41(0)786847799