For the 2nd AREPO Plenary Meeting for 2017 held in Crete, Anne Clermontelle, European agri-food strategies expert, has presented the progress of the Interreg Sudoe project AGROSMARTcoop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AREPO is actively participating to the projet since july 2016. To briefly reminding the project, AGROSMARTcoop is a European project cofinanced at 75% by the ERDF<\/strong>. It aims to revitalize the economic growth of the Sudoe rural areas<\/strong> with the support of their agri-food cooperatives<\/strong>, especially through the creation of a virtual platform for intercooperation<\/strong>. This platform will be equipped with advanced services to support and improve the sustainable technological innovation and the intelligent marketing, with the sharing of best practices between cooperatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The consortium covers 6 Regions of the Sudoe<\/strong>: Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha, Basque Country and Extremadura in Spain, Norte Region in Portugal and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France, and is composed of 8 partners<\/strong> with 5 cooperatives unions, 2 research centers and AREPO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project duration is 24 months for a total budget of 1 295 000 \u20ac to implement its activities, which means 925 000 \u20ac of ERDF help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Regarding the project progress<\/strong>, the activities implementation is suffering some delays but the benchmarking of strenghts and needs<\/strong> of agri-food cooperatives of the Sudoe on sustainable technological innovation and intelligent marketing is finalizing and the virtual platform of intercooperation<\/strong> is being developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AREPO has a budget of 112 500 euros cofinanced at 75% by the ERDF. We have actively participated to the benchmarking of intelligent marketing<\/strong> with our experience and our network of Regions, and we will play a key role in activities of promotion, networking and results dissemination<\/strong> to our member Regions and to strategic political representatives. This is the reason why we will organize our great European Event in March 2018<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This event is organized every 2 or 3 years and consists to highlight the importance of quality products to European institutions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The event is generally built in two parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n AREPO will organize this event for the 4th time and it is important to highlight the systematic presence of the European Commissioner of Agriculture<\/strong>: Mrs Fischer Boel in 2009, Mr Ciolos in 2011 and Mr Hogan in 2015. This event is covered by the press and is a real opportunity for agri-food cooperatives of the Sudoe to communicate on the AGROSMARTcoop project and to promote their quality products<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the 2nd AREPO Plenary Meeting for 2017 held in Crete, Anne Clermontelle, European agri-food strategies expert, has presented the progress of the Interreg Sudoe project AGROSMARTcoop. AREPO is actively participating to the projet since july 2016. To briefly reminding the project, AGROSMARTcoop is a European project cofinanced at 75% by the ERDF. It aims to revitalize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,344,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrosmartcoop-es","category-proyecto-europeo","category-reuniones-arepo-es"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n