E-SPFdigit will bring novel onsite digital tools already at TRL5 under systemic innovation, which will be further deployed, upscaled, field-tested and demonstrated to TRL7-8, in viticulture and horticulture applications in Greece and Spain in soil-contaminated areas (located near mines, offensive industries, highways, floodwaters). E-SPFdigit brings novel developed: i) MIP-based electrochemical sensors coupled with SPME for on-site monitoring and analysis of dedicated to PFAS targeted molecules, ii) Multiplex organic Surface Plasmon Resonance optical biosensors for onsite pesticides residues monitoring and analysis, iii) IDE-based electrochemical sensors for onsite detection and quantification of heavy metals & micronutrients, and iv) UVC LED -based nutrient analysers for soil water content in-situ and real time monitoring. The AI-driven onsite digital tools will be model calibrated using machine learning algorithms to improve error distribution of a predictive model, ensuring reliability. Also, E-SPFdigit brings an edge-based remote sensing framework via a robust autonomous mobile robot self-navigating and a heavy-duty unmanned aerial vehicle for in-field detection of soil parameters regarding the aforementioned chemical and biological stressors. Finally, to predict pesticide and fertiliser and other chemical contaminants impacts on crop-soil-microbiome nexus, the project will use on-field real-time digital ground sensors combined with Earth Observation data and causal machine learning. All the onsite digital tools will be interconnected with a Decision Support Systems with blockchain and cybersecurity mechanisms enabling informed decisions and automated decision making for IPM and INM, enhanced with automated decision making for immediate soil management practices.

PestNu targets the field -testing and demonstration of digital and space based technologies (DST) and agro-ecological and organic practices (AOP) under a systemic approach to reduce the pesticides and fertilisers use, and loss of nutrients. The consortium brings novel DST including: AI robotic traps for real time pest monitoring; Autonomous mobile robots for pesticide monitoring and 3D spot spraying; Earth Observation missions with robust Agroradar AI algorithms to map soil/plant nutrients and pest plant inputs using Copernicus data/services; and in-situ and real-time nutrient analysers. All the DST will be interconnected to a user-centric cloud-based Farm Management System, which features a robust Decision Support System integrated with a blockchain based system for DST data evidence, integrity and AI models verification and with a cybersecurity platform to prevent cyber-attacks and IoT vulnerabilities. The AOP include: on-site production of biofertilisers from agricultural waste-waters through a robust automated drainage recycling system via an innovative enzymatic hydrolysis procedure; a novel foliar biopesticide formulated by circular bioeconomy operations, targeting fungal diseases with biostimulant effect; and advanced nutritional programs for organic farming. The showcase systemic DST & AOP solutions will be demonstrated and tested in aquaponic and hydroponic greenhouse and open-field vegetable cultivation in Greece and Spain. A Pesticide Reduction Program will evaluate the Maximum Residue and the Acceptable Daily Intake levels to ensure vegetable's food safety and LCA activities will be performed. All these systemic approaches will be performed under a strong collaboration among all the Farm to Fork stakeholders and European Commission services.

"The European Good DEEDS Challenge was created to generate three long-term positive effects:1. to bring the attention of a large audience to the issue of energy waste deriving from an uneducated use of digital technologies, and to contribute on the one hand to contrasting the dominant ""magical"" concept of digital that generates desirable results at zero environmental cost, and on the other to stimulate informed and virtuous behavior from the point of view of reducing the environmental footprint.2. encourage a wide adoption by European VET schools of training activities related to emerging needs in the market prefigured by the ""New Green Deal"" for skills on the energy efficiency of digital systems, remote assistance in augmented reality and AI-based predictive maintenance, providing a training toolkit for teachers and innovative tools for online student training.3. to favor the establishment of local ecosystems of socially responsible organizations that support VET educational activities of particular ethical value.The inspiration for the project comes from ""The European Green Deal"" [COM (2019) 640], where a new growth strategy is proposed to transform ""the Union into a modern, resource efficient and competitive economy"".Energy efficiency and the digital sector play a central role in this strategy. The latter by virtue of its transformative potential linked to the advent of artificial intelligences for sure, but also as a recipient of particular attention by virtue of its intense use of energy resources, which becomes increasingly clearly not sustainable. Using digital technology in 2018 led to an energy consumption 37% higher than in 2010. The exact opposite of what is generally attributed to digital technologyThe strategy of ""The European Green Deal"" considers that ""it takes 25 years - a generation - to transform an industrial sector and all its value chains"". Therefore, even in the field of energy efficiency and the reduction of the digital environmental footprint ""it is necessary to make decisions and take action within the next 5 years"" to achieve the objectives set for 2050. A scenario that requires the presence right now of professionals with both full awareness of the depth of the digital environmental footprint and the skills to design technological and behavioral processes that will contribute to its reduction.In this scenario, Good DEEDS was born with the aim of developing a methodology and a learning platform for VET teachers and students, aimed at a strategy of sustainable growth of sectorial skills on reducing the digital environmental footprint, and based on the participation in a annual international competition promoted by a European network of local partnerships between schools, businesses and institutions.This objective translates into the creation of a Knowledge Management System, a training toolkit for VET teachers and students and the ""Online Good DEEDS"" platform.The project adopts a circular approach to activate a self-feeding process. The creation of the Good DEEDS KMS lays the foundations for the definition of a blended training course for VET teachers and students. The teachers acquire theoretical knowledge by studying the contents of the KMS and then apply it in the construction of a training course for students in collaboration with local public and private organizations, sensitive to social responsibility on the environmental issue. Students follow a theoretical path traced by the teachers thanks to the OER available in the KMS and then apply it in the design of solutions for the energy efficiency of their institutes through activities that involve the development of innovative skills such as remote assistance in augmented reality or management of predictive maintenance systems. In this way VET schools receive direct added value from their teaching activities. Finally, the Good DEEDS Challenge requires students to become champions of their territory and to translate into OER available for all the good practices they have implemented in collaboration with their school and local networks. The competition leads to a selection of the best national and then European OER, which, after being validated by a jury of experts, are acquired within the KMS, guaranteeing constant updating and closing the circle of value.At the end of the project, the pilot’s 60 teachers acquire useful knowledge to strengthen a specific digital key competence of their 1200 students: the digital energy efficiency. Competence that contributes to improving qualifications for the world of work as it will evolve in the coming years based on the directives of the ""The European Green Deal"" for a Europe with zero impact on the environment."