iNnovative approaches to Education eXperimentation & enTrepreneurship in peri-urban AGRIcultural territories

Programme 2014 - 2020 URBACT III

Date of latest update: 2025-01-21

Description

Description (EN):

At the core of the project there is an“Open Innovation Hub on Peri-Urban Agriculture”as an integrated strategy to deliver innovation in existing and newly created nodes of the agri-food value chain, focusing on new skills, training, pilot projects for SMEs and startups. The good practice to be transferred focuses on policy instruments,implementation tools and selected project outcomes with the aim of sharing knowledge and critical barriers to a successful innovation-driven inclusive growth model.

Achievements (EN):

OpenAgri, Milan’s UIA project under the Jobs and Skills topic, aimed at testing an integrated strategy to deliver innovation in existing and newly created nodes of the agrifood value chain, focusing on new skills, training, pilot projects for SMEs and startups ideas. The proposed solution is an “Open Innovation Hub on PeriUrban Agriculture” as a tool to integrate into the Milan Food Policy and the Circular Milan strategy startups promotion, capacity building initiatives, technological projects, community involvement processes. As the focus of the proposal was on business development and innovation, OpenAgri has tested unconventional tools and innovative learning paths to support both the creation of new businesses and the development of existing ones. Besides, the project paid attention to the inclusive role of agriculture in peripheral urban areas, and the social and territorial impacts of the new businesses created. This experimental project challenged existing practices and regulations in cities, regions, policy fields and local contexts. The project proved to be an excellent testbed for UIA program approach, which takes a place-based approach to employment and skills strategies. It means not starting from physical regeneration per se, but stimulating new economic dynamics within a local area, with the ambition to connect the newly created skills and jobs to a wider system, at the urban and metropolitan level.

Website: http://www.urbact.eu

Thematic information

Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks Education and training SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: To improve the design of sustainable urban strategies and action plans in cities

Thematic Objective:

(11) enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration through actions to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administrations and public services related to the implementation of the ERDF, and in support of actions under the ESF to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administration.

Investment Priority:

(11 ETC) ETC specific for interregional cooperation: enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by disseminating good practices and expertise and capitalising on the results of the exchange of experience in relation to sustainable urban development, including urban-rural linkages pursuant to point (3)(b) of Article 2 (exchange of experience concerning the identification, transfer and dissemination of good practices in relation to sustainable urban development, including urban-rural linkages)

Partners (4)

Lead Partner: City of Milan

Address: PIAZZA DUOMO 19, 20122 MILAN, Italy

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 213 932.00

ERDF budget: EUR 149 752.40

Municipality of Almere

Name: Municipality of Almere

Address: Stadhuisplein 1, 1315HR Almere, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 132 350.00

ERDF budget: EUR 92 645.00

Municipality of Stara Zagora

Name: Municipality of Stara Zagora

Address: 107 Tsar Simeon Veliki Blv,, 6000 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 70 255.00

ERDF budget: EUR 49 178.50

Municipality Vila Nova de Gaia

Name: Municipality Vila Nova de Gaia

Department: EU Projects, Innovation and Strategic Planning Unit

Address: Rua Álvares Cabral, 4 400 177 Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 129 610.20

ERDF budget: EUR 90 727.14

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Summary

Project name (EN): iNnovative approaches to Education eXperimentation & enTrepreneurship in peri-urban AGRIcultural territories

Project acronym: NEXTAGRI

Project start date: 2021-03-09

Project end date: 2022-09-09

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 546 147.20

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 382 303.04

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 382 303.04.

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.

Project’s final reports

Network Final Report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Project’s final report

Data source: https://urbact.eu/networks/next-agri

Publication date: 2023-11-21

Document date: 2022-09-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Reports

Investment Plan - Almere

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://urbact.eu/networks/next-agri

Publication date: 2023-11-21

Document date: 2022-09-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Investment Plan - Stara Zagora

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://urbact.eu/networks/next-agri

Publication date: 2023-11-21

Document date: 2022-09-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Investment Plan - Vila Nova de Gaia

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://urbact.eu/networks/next-agri

Publication date: 2023-11-21

Document date: 2022-09-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Springboard Plan - Milano

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://urbact.eu/networks/next-agri

Publication date: 2023-11-21

Document date: 2022-09-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

URBACT NextAgri Final Video

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://urbact.eu/final-video-nextagri-project

Publication date: 2023-11-21

Document date: 2022-11-09

Languages: en

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 URBACT III

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-03-28

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

88 / 88 (100%)

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

716 / 716 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.urbact.eu), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-12-13, 2023-01-03 and 2024-02-01.

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iNnovative approaches to Education eXperimentation & enTrepreneurship in peri-urban AGRIcultural territories

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