Questions
- Which technologies, business models and initiatives can evolve into innovations for a sustainable transformation of our agricultural and food sector?
- What is the role of digitalization and technological progress in agricultural production, processing and trade (smart farming, precision technology, etc.) for our future food supply?
- Which innovative concepts strengthen the common good alignment and resilience of our agricultural and food system?
- What potential do novel concepts such as regenerative and circular economies on the one hand and valuation and remuneration approaches on the other have for transforming our agricultural and food system as far as possible?
- How do niche innovations affect socio-technical transitions in the agricultural and food systems?
- How do innovations spread in practice, what novel approaches for knowledge transfer (digital, visual, etc.) are there and what paths must science communication take?
- What is the role of agricultural and nutrition counseling thereby?
- What innovative teaching and learning approaches have been proven useful for fostering design or transformational competences?
- How are educational concepts/programs and qualification approaches redesigned and adapted to today's challenges of the agricultural and food industry?
- Which new professions have emerged or are emerging (e.g., value chain manager, eco-inspector) and which competences are required, therefore?
- Which new and creative ways of generating knowledge exist and how do innovations look like at different stages of the research process?
- What innovative methods and research designs have proven useful for collaboration with practitioners (real labs, co-design, etc.)?
- What framework conditions are needed for innovative, both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scientific research in the agricultural and food sector?