LivestockSense – Focus group discussion at AKI
In the framework of the LivestockSense project, the AKI Institute of Agricultural Economics invited stakeholders involved in precision livestock farming (PLF) in the pig and poultry sector to a focus…
The European Thematic Network held its first major event of the year in Budapest
The first major event of the year 2023 for the FARMWELL project was the 3rd meeting of the ever-expanding European Thematic Network on 12 and 13 January in Budapest. The…
New Agricultural Statistics Pocketbook is published
The publication provides information on the developments and situation in agriculture, forestry and food industry in 2021. Statistical data published in previous pocketbooks were used to provide comparability of time…
Our colleagues at the launch event of the modernAKIS project in Rome
The physical launch event of the Horizon Europe project modernAKIS was held in Rome on 7–9 November 2022, with the participation of our colleagues Dr. Pál Goda Managing Director, Lívia…
The EU FarmBook project started with the opening event in Florence
Florence hosted the kick-off meeting of the EU FarmBook project, held on October 19-21, 2022, where after the previously held online kick-off, the project participants could also meet physically and…
The ATTRACTISS project started with the participation of AKI
The kick-off meeting of the ATTRACTISS project was held on October 17-19, 2022 in Florence with the participation of our colleagues Lívia Kránitz and Dr. Szabolcs Vágó. The event took…
AKI in Greece for the BIKE project’s 4th Progress meeting
After a long period of virtual meetings due to COVID-19 pandemic policies across Europe, on 28-29 September 2022, AKI staff participated in the EU-funded H2020 project BIKE Progress meeting led…
Bike Open Lab – Sardinia
On 5-6th September 2022, AKI participated in the BIKE (Biofuels production at Low-ILUC risk for European Sustainable Bioeconomy) project’s Open Lab in Sardinia (Italy) held at the Bonifiche Ferrasi Farm.…
Financial opportunities for the bioeconomy in the EU
A webinar on the opportunities of the 6th Cluster of Horizon Europe and the Circular Biobased Europe Partnership (CBE JU) was held on 28 April with more than 110 participants,…
A bunch of winning projects: our participation in the HORIZON EUROPE programme
The Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) is one of Hungary’s most successful institutions in terms of participation in projects under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research…
Successful EUREKA project ends with EU FarmBook launch events
The EUREKA H2020 project has successfully achieved its main objective of creating a European online agricultural knowledge repository and knowledge transfer system called EU FarmBook, which supports farmers, advisors and…
The FARMWELL project stepped forward through an online partner meeting
The FARMWELL project’s Hungarian, British, Dutch, Belgian, Italian, Greek, Polish and Romanian consortium members, with the participation of the Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) and the Hungarian Social Farms Alliance…
YOUCooperATE project has been finished successfully
The YOUCooperATE (“Youth Education Cooperation for the Renewal of Agriculture”) project, in which experts from five countries worked together to develop an innovative educational methodology for expanding the knowledge and…
Farm Well, a story about farm life today
Being a farmer today is not easy. In the framework of the H2020 FARMWELL project a touching short film was created about farmers and farmer families by the New Heroes…
Cost, income and financial results – Hungarian FADN reports
We proudly present our new reports about agricultural products and farms data. Both contain time series data that are updated annually. The first interactive visualization is focusing on the main…
Students have learned to cooperate
In the framework of the YOUCooperATE (Youth Cooperation for Agricultural Renewal through Education) project implemented in partnership with five countries (Bulgaria, Latvia, Hungary, Italy, Romania), the Institute of Agricultural Economics…
Kick-off Meeting of LivestockSense project
The kick-off meeting of the two-year long international R&D project “LivestockSense: Enhancing environmental sustainability of livestock farms by removing barriers for adopting ICT technologies” was held online on the 13th…
Workshop on the challenges affecting the well-being of farmers in the framework of the FARMWELL project
As part of the FARMWELL project, the first workshop of the “Practice Group” (PG) was held on the 22nd of June 2021. The aim of the online workshop i.e. the…
”LivestockSense”: the applicability of digital technologies in livestock farming
The Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) is going to participate in a two-year-long project, „Enhancing environmental sustainability of livestock farms by removing barriers for adopting ICT technologies (LivestockSense)”, funded by…
EU FarmBook knowledge platform – a reliable source of information for local users
A user-friendly farmers knowledge reservoir is very much needed in Hungary, that is why it is important for NAK and AKI to be a part of the EUREKA project and…
The project aiming to create a European Knowledge Repository ended with an online national event
The event jointly organized by NAK and AKI on 22nd March 2021, was the national closing event of the international EURAKNOS project in Hungary. Without effective knowledge transfer, innovation results…
The FLINT project is one of the establishing projects of the Farm Sustainability Data Network
A conference on “Development of information systems and data management practices for CAP evaluation” was organized by the ENRD between 16th and 17th of March. The Sen4CAP (Sentinels for Common…
The publication of retail buying prices in AKI MPIS has started
To enhance agricultural and food market transparency at EU level, the price notification obligation has been expanded from the 1st of January 2021. In Hungary, the price notification obligation is…
Kick-off of the FARMWELL H2020 project
FARMWELL is a Horizon 2020 Thematic Network that aims at identifying and making social innovations more accessible to address common social challenges and improve the wellbeing of farmers. The serious…
A cooperation agreement has been signed between the Institute of Agricultural Economics and the Óbuda University
Institute of Agricultural Economics and Óbuda University signed a cooperation agreement, laying down the basis of common projects, tenders, applied research activity, professional networking and organisation of joint professional events.…