BioFin: Protecting And Restoring Biodiversity Using Mainstream Finance. Jan 2024 – Dec 2027. Maastricht project funded by HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01-9. Role: Pricipal Investigator and WP Leader. Total budget e5M
OpenAgri: Democratising digital farming through tailored open source and open hardware solutions. Jan 2024 – Dec 2027. Maastricht project funded by HORIZON-CL6-2023- GOVERNANCE-01-13. Role: Coordinator and WP leader. Total budget €5M.
Genius AI Lab: Generative Enhanced Next-generation Intelligent Understanding System. Sept 2023 – Aug 2028. This lab seeks to extend and improve generative AI methods to support human experts in answering scientific and operational questions through collaborative semantic knowledge engineering between people and AI systems. The research will provide domain experts with human-centred methods and tools for knowledge interaction, prediction, and synthesis. IDS/Maastricht project funded by NWO LTP ROBUST programme. Role: Co-Principal Investigator, and WP lead for Maastricht. Total budget: €2.2M
Farmtopia: Democratising digital farming through smart solutions for small farms. Sept 2023 – Aug 2026. GSCDIH project funded by HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK- 02-two-stage. Role: WP Leader and Prinicipal Investigator for GSCDIH. Total budget 5M.
EU FarmBook : supporting knowledge exchange between all AKIS actors in the European Union. Aug 2022 – July 2029. Project funded by HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE- 01-24, including both IDS/Maastricht and TNO. Role Principal Investigator and WP leader for IDS/- Maastricht, team member for TNO. Total budget €15M.
BioDT: Biodiversity Digital Twin for Advanced Modelling, Simulation and Prediction Capabilities. BioDT focusses on the develpment of a digital twin for biodiversity integrating multiple data sets from across Europe and using High Performance Computing to model biodiversity. July 2022 – June 2025. TNO project. Role: Team member for TNO. Total budget €12M
QuantiFarm: Assessing the impact of digital technology solutions in agriculture in real-life conditions. QuantiFarm focuses on testing digital agricultural technologies in 30 Test Cases across 20 countries in 10 biogeographical regions in Europe. Jul 2022 – Dec 2025. TNO project funded by HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-22. Role: Scientific lead for TNO. Total budget €7.5M.
DITECT: DIgital TEChnologies as an enabler for a conTinuous transformation of food safety system. Nov 2020 – March 2024. IDS/Maastricht project funded by H2020-SFS- 2019-2. Role: Principal Investigator for Maastricht. Total budget €4M.
Past Projects
Ploutos: Data-driven sustainable agri-food value chains. Ploutos focuses on co-developing sustainability-oriented innovations across 24 agri-food value chains in 13 countries, targeting mainly small farms. Oct 2020 – Sept 2023. TNO project funded by H2020- RUR-06-2020. Role: Scientific lead for TNO. Total budget €7M.
Agtech 7: Knowledge Alliance of Agribusinesses, Academia and Business Angels for Disruptive Farm-to-Fork Agri-Tech Training. Jan 2020-Dec 2022. IDS/Maastricht project funded by Eureka Plus. Role: Principal Investigator for IDS/Maastricht. Total budget €800k.
EUREKA: European Knowledge repository for best agricultural practices. The project aimed to help ensure the longer-term and wider use by farmers, foresters and other rural businesses of the practical knowledge and innovative solutions that are generated by Horizon 2020 multi-actor projects. Jan 2020 – Mar 2022. IDS/Maastricht project funded by H2020-RUR-2019-1. Role: Principal Investigator for Maastricht. Total budget €2M.
BLOCK.IS: Blockchain Innovation Spaces. An acceleration programme that aims to build an open and collaborative cross-border, cross-sectoral innovation ecosystem that fosters the use of blockchain technology in three vital sectors for the European economy: agrifood, logistics and finance.May 2019 – Jan 2022. Innovation Action, funded by H2020 INNOSUP-01-2018-2020. Role: Scientific lead for TNO. Total budget €4.9M.
Further past projects are listed in my CV here.