The most important challenge in European agriculture is the cost and scarcity of labour. Robots have replaced labour in several sectors of the economy. Agricultural robots have not yet reached widespread acceptance. The vision of ROBS4CROPS is an agricultural sector where robots will replace humans in all heavy and unpleasant work! From a technical point of view, agricultural robots do not reach their potential because they are used as stand-alone units rather than as part of a complete, innovative robotic system. From a non-technical point of view, agricultural robots do not fit well with current farming practices and agricultural standards and are not supported by an ecosystem of stakeholders. ROBS4CROPS will tackle technical challenges by creating a robotic farming solution that consists of three elements: smart implements, autonomous vehicles, and the farming controller. Existing agricultural implements and tractors will be upgraded so that they can function, together with existing agricultural robots, as parts of a robotic system. Development and testing will take place in real farming environments (real operating conditions), in four countries, in iterative cycles, and in close collaboration with stakeholders. ROBS4CROPS will tackle non-technical challenges by using existing agricultural standards, by utilizing existing machinery (thus lowering the initial investment needed), and by addressing the lack of maintenance, insurance, financing and training. Compliance with regulations, robo-ethics and socio-economic impact will be explicitly addressed. Robotics offers an opportunity to develop novel business models. Building the ecosystem for agricultural robotics will take place iteratively, in parallel with technical development. The complete robotic system (technical and non-technical) will be demonstrated at scale in pilots in four European countries.

BROILERNET will create twelve national level innovation networks and three EU level networks of broiler farmers, advisors, supply chain integrator companies, farmers' organisations, researchers and veterinarians to address the upcoming challenges faced by broiler farmers. The project will be designed around three main fields of concern: (1) environmental sustainability; (2) animal welfare; and (3) animal health management. Through a multi-actor approach, the most urgent needs of broiler farmers will be identified and the network will collect and evaluate good practices that are able to meet these needs. BROILERNET will also engage with existing and new broiler-focused EIP-AGRI Operational Groups (OGs) and enhance their impact. The selected best practices will be spread through a variety of communication and dissemination activities to reach the vast majority of broiler farmers in the countries of the participating consortium partners, but also to all broiler farmers across Europe. Numerous multi-language flyers, videos and national roadshows are just some of the dissemination methods that will be foreseen among the activities dedicated to communication and dissemination.

ReMIX will exploit the benefits of species mixtures to design more diversified and resilient agro-ecological arable cropping systems less dependent on external inputs. Based on a multi-actor approach, ReMIX will produce new knowledge that is both scientifically credible and socially valuable in conventional and organic agriculture. It will tackle practical questions and co-design ready-to-use practical solutions adapted to producing mainly grain cash crops in diverse EU pedo-climatic conditions. ReMIX will: 1) overcome barriers to stimulate the adoption of species mixtures by farmers and in agri-food chains, 2) unravel mechanisms of plant-plant interactions to maximize resource use efficiency, 3) determine the role of species mixtures in controlling diseases, pests and weeds and alleviating yield damages, 4) demonstrate the role of species mixtures in improving ecosystem service provision and development of resilience to biotic stress, 5) identify key traits and create novel breeding and phenotyping methods and tools adapted to species mixtures, 6) generate novel breeding material adapted to grain legume/cereal mixtures, 7) develop generic rules for assembling species for efficient cash crop production using process-based simulation models, 8) develop new management techniques to optimise species mixtures performance, 9) optimise settings and specifications for agricultural machines for harvesting and separating grains, and 10) develop a tool box, an educational serious game and technical booklets for farmers and advisors. The project will span from the specification of end-user needs and the co-design of in-field and on-farm experiments to demonstrations with evaluation of new varieties and practices. ReMIX will contribute to the adoption of productive and resilient agricultural systems based on plants diversity, to increase legume production and competitiveness in EU and to healthier diets based on plant proteins from cereals and legumes.

AGRALID project involves a multidisciplinary team of 9 partners (INRA PEGASE, INRA URA and PEAT, INRA SAS, LARESS-ESA, LESMA-Audencia, Bleu Blanc Coeur, Valorex, Terrena, and CERNh Développement). The project focuses on developing a tool to help define the best dietary strategies that conciliate human health, animal welfare, agricultural biodiversity, and environmental impacts of food production. The project is centred on the consumer whose eating habits are quite pervasively present. The main objective of the project is to offer the consumer: 1/ A better access to more balanced food, especially regarding lipid content in products of animal origin with a focus on restoring a good balance between Omega 3 (n-3 FAs) and Omega 6 (n-6 FAs), diminishing saturated fatty acids, altogether with a better consideration of the environmental impact. 2/ An optimization guide for eating practices that will bring the consumer solutions, only slightly modifying his eating habits, to strike a good balance regarding the three dimensions: environment, nutrition and cost. Starting with defined weekly menus, representatives of the eating habits of the french population, the project will establish a database on the threedimensional impact (nutrition, environment and socio-economy) of the food items that constitute those menus. As it is extremely difficult to change consumer habits, the project focuses on food items quality, more specifically on food items of animal origin, as those are the most impacting on nutrition, environment and socio-economy. Thus, the project will propose and analyse diverses solutions to optimize agricultural products of animal origin, experimenting new feed sources and the acceptation by the producers of the agricultural practices associated. The three dimensional impact of those optimized food items will be measured and integrated in the database. Using multivariate statistics the project will position the original weekly menus, with or without optimized food items, with regard to soci-economic perception (consumer and producer point of view), nutritional quality and environmental impact. Using linear programming, the project will extend this analysis to other types of menus, thus developping a decision making tool or an optimization guide that will position diverse menus on three cursors: the environmental cursor, the nutritionnal cursor and the socio-economic cursor. This tool will not only address the consumer but also all other actors of the food chain: farmers; national authorities, actors of the food transformation industry; actors from the catering sector.