GEORGIA
Green dEal cOmpliant iRriGation Increasing Europe’s Agriculture resilience to drought
GEORGIA focuses on increasing the resilience of agriculture to drought and enhancing efficiency in water management. Drivers and barriers of key innovative irrigation systems are assessed, including environmentally responsible recycling of sewage sludge and biowaste streams, biological water-absorbing geocomposites, as well as water abundance and scarcity solutions. In parallel, GEORGIA pursues their optimal application through local condition modeling and employment of Artificial Intelligence.
GEORGIA partners develop in-situ, drone-based and geospatial monitoring, an eXplainable-AI decision support system as well as Crop Digital Twins. The project enhances and validates these technologies starting from the farm level and upscaling at large-scale and catchment levels.
The socio-techno-economic approach is validated in 7 pilots in 6 countries, connected through a Federated Deep Machine Learning architecture. GEORGIA covers multiple crops, different production types (conventional, intensive, agroecology and organic) and geographical regions,
- Mediterranean (Greece, Cyprus)
- Southeast Europe-Balkans (Bulgaria, Serbia)
- Central Europe-Midland (Austria)
- Continental Europe-Baltic Sea (Poland)
Sensor data will be collected and processed from farms that span from the Southern to Northeast Europe, along with organic and non-organic production. More than 1,200 farmers will be directly involved in the experimentation phase, and more than 89,000 farmers will be directly informed.
| Funding program | Horizon Europe |
|---|---|
| Call | HORIZON-CL6-2024-CLIMATE-01 |
| GA No. | 101181572 |
| Duration | 2025 - 2028 |
| EC Funding | € 4,970,932.24 |
| Website | georgia-horizon.eu |
| # Sectors | smartfarming, sustainability, Water management |
Innovating Water Management
for Resilient Farming
- 9 Countries
- 16 Partners
- 7 Pilot sites in 6 countries
- > 700 ha of farmland
- > 26 Crop types
- ≥ 90 Data collecting sensors
As a leader of WP8 & WP9, reframe.food (RFF), will create and execute a comprehensive Dissemination, Exploitation, and Communication (DEC) Plan, establish a unique visual identity, website, and social media channels, implement Lean Multi-dimensional Multi-Actor Approach (LMMA) and develop an event planning outline.
Additionally, reframe.food will analyse and review the market and existing business models, pertinent to the solutions demonstrated in the project and provide insights on Intellectual Property (IP).