Jointly preparing the conditions in the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation (BSB Smart Farming)

Programme 2014 - 2020 Black Sea Basin ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2025-06-17

Description

Description (EN):

The main objective of the project is to develop and implement a highly replicable and transferable model for preparing the conditions for ensuring the digital transformation in agriculture and connected sectors in the area - a process intensively unfold across the world. It encompasses actions to be deployed in 6 partner countries with partial outputs to be made accessible for 2 more countries. It will contribute to foster a significant change in the preparedness of the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation, improving the capacities of the farming community, academia, public institutions, industry actors and entrepreneurs for cross-border trade opportunities in order to meet the common territorial challenges related to the lagging behind in the modernisation in the agricultural and connected sectors. It supports sweeping away some of the main Black sea basin countries demerits related to the upcoming digital transformation, boosting entrepreneurship with a well-planned and relevant activities to a number of challenges and opportunities arising from the main territorial running processes in three dimensions. The first dimension is related to the support for changing the conditions for the modernization of the agriculture and connected sectors in the area as smart digital farming is listed as the highest-ranking technology opportunity in terms of its expected positive impact. The second dimension is related to the challenges before the main driver of economy and local people welfare – the SMEs in the region. The project improves stably the conditions for supporting the SME’s in the regions operating in the agriculture and connected sectors to stay in line with the leading industrial tendencies and fertilizes the grounds for stemming new ventures in the most promising new industrial trends and needs with a strong cross-border effect, thus answering the regional disparities. The project ensures a sustainable territory for further supporting the knowledge and ventures exchanges between the countries at different levels of deployment of the innovative SMEs’ ecosystems. The third dimension is answering the socio-economic challenges in the area – the brain and skill drain and the brain waste, the migration flows, the regional disparities related to urbanization and rural areas depopulation. The project takes into consideration these trends and answers them offering a model for improving the opportunity high-skilled people to become interested in farming, or working with farmers, supporting the retention of young people in their birthplaces, creating and nourishing opportunities for start-ups as a much desired and needed alternative against the low-skilled seasonal or farmers’ fields work. The project also reacts to the depopulation and ageing processes and the unplanned migration pressure unfolding opportunities for the usage of ICT skills and competencies even in the most underdeveloped areas in the BSB area.

Achievements (EN): R 1.2 Strength of cross-border links for trade and modernisation in the agricultural and connected sectors

Website: http://blacksea-cbc.net/

Expected Results (EN): R 1.2 Strength of cross-border links for trade and modernisation in the agricultural and connected sectors

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project ensures the following results in the long run: - a significant and measurable change in the preparedness of the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation, - raised levels of the capacities of more than 600 representatives of the farming community, academia, public institutions, industry actors, entrepreneurs and policy makers for better cross-border trade opportunities in order to meet the common territorial challenges related to the lagging behind in the modernisation in the agricultural and connected sectors. - an ICT tool for Smart farming solutions for stable new cross-border links for trade and modernisation in the agricultural and connected sectors. - a sustainable ecosystem for the application of Smart farming and IoT technologies in the agri-food sector in BSB area. - a trained stakeholders' network from multi-stakeholders representatives to improve the conditions for ensuring the digital transformation in agriculture and connected sectors in the area. - a series of innovative action learning activities answering a number of challenges and opportunities arising from the main territorial processes. - a series of regional and cross-border trade and brokerage events related to the upcoming digital transformation for strengthening the cross-border links for trade. - boosted entrepreneurship and new cross-border ventures stemming and creation in Smart farming and Internet of things. - enhanced conditions for the modernization of the agriculture and connected sectors in the area. - stable cross-border links in line with the leading industrial tendencies. - unfolded new opportunities for the usage of ICT skills, competencies and businesses in the most underdeveloped rural areas in the BSB countries. - open new horizons for people in the BSB area to find work and build career in modernisation of agriculture and connected sectors instead of immigrating. - improved conditions for a better life in BSB area.

Thematic information

ICT and digital society Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Thematic Objective: Business and SME development

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Πιερική Αναπτυξιακή Α.Ε.-Ο.Τ.Α.

Address: 16th Oktobriou 17b, 60100 Katerini, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.pieriki-anaptixiaki.gr

Total budget: EUR 9 084.03

Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University, TeSaU

Name: Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University, TeSaU

Address: Kartuli Universiteti Str. 1, 2200 Telavi, Georgia

Legal status: public

Website: http://tesau.edu.ge/

Total budget: EUR 7 110.86

Fund “Investment Support Center”

Name: Fund “Investment Support Center”

Address: Hanrapetutyan 5, 0002 Yerevan, Armenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.smednc.am

Total budget: EUR 15 763.81

"Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati (UDJG)

Name: "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati (UDJG)

Address: Domneasca Street, 47, 800008 Galati, Romania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.if.ugal.ro

Total budget: EUR 14 198.91

Business Advisory Center

Name: Business Advisory Center

Address: Mitropolitul Petru Movila 23/9 , office 3, MD-2004 Chisinau, Moldova

Legal status: private

Website: http://cca-ngo.org/

Total budget: EUR 25 832.57

Сдружение Бизнес агенция

Name: Сдружение Бизнес агенция

Address: 11 "Prezviter Kozma" 11 "Prezviter Kozma", 9000 Varna, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 22 086.97

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Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University, TeSaU

Jointly preparing the conditions in the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation (BSB Smart Farming)

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Fund “Investment Support Center”

Jointly preparing the conditions in the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation (BSB Smart Farming)

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"Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati (UDJG)

Jointly preparing the conditions in the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation (BSB Smart Farming)

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Business Advisory Center

Jointly preparing the conditions in the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation (BSB Smart Farming)

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Business Agency Association

Jointly preparing the conditions in the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation (BSB Smart Farming)

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Pieriki Anaptixiaki S.A.-O.L.A.

Jointly preparing the conditions in the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation (BSB Smart Farming)

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Summary

Project name (EN): Jointly preparing the conditions in the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation (BSB Smart Farming)

Project acronym: BSB Smart Farming

Project start date: 2020-07-14

Project end date: 2022-11-13

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 94 077.15

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 86 550.95

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Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Methodology for research and synthesis report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bsb-smartfarming.com/

Publication date: 2024-07-31

Document date: 2021-02-03

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Regional analysis - Bulgaria

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bsb-smartfarming.com/

Publication date: 2024-07-31

Document date: 2021-02-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Regional analysis - Armenia

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bsb-smartfarming.com/

Publication date: 2024-07-31

Document date: 2021-02-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Regional analysis - Georgia

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bsb-smartfarming.com/

Publication date: 2024-07-31

Document date: 2021-03-17

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Regional analysis - Greece

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bsb-smartfarming.com/

Publication date: 2024-07-31

Document date: 2021-03-17

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Regional analysis - Moldova

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bsb-smartfarming.com/

Publication date: 2024-07-31

Document date: 2021-02-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Regional analysis - Romania

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bsb-smartfarming.com/

Publication date: 2024-07-31

Document date: 2021-02-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Synthesis report on the level of preparedness for Smart farming of BSB area countries

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bsb-smartfarming.com/

Publication date: 2024-07-31

Document date: 2022-01-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Black Sea Basin ENI CBC

Latest month of project-partner-call data publication

2025-12

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

57 / 57 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

290 / 290 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme on 2025-03-10 and on 2025-12-29. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://blacksea-cbc.net/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2024-02-01, except for projects with acronyms AGREEN, BeECO, BRIDGES, BSB ECO MONITORING, BSB Smart Farming, CRoCuS, EXCELTOUR, LeNetEco 2, LOC-FOOD, SILC, THC (in these cases, the information was provided by the Programme).

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Jointly preparing the conditions in the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation (BSB Smart Farming)

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