International Advisory Board
It comprises a range of external experts, including scientific experts, policy makers, advisory organisations, farmers’ representatives, and SMEs in the sectors of new technology diffusion in agriculture.
The members of the Advisory Board:
Andrès Montero, Association of Fruit and Vegetables Production Organizations (COEXPHAL), Almería, Spain
Anikó Juhász (co-chair of the SCAR-AKIS-WG4), Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Dimitar Vanev, National Agricultural Advisory Service, Sofia, Bulgaria
Inge Van Oost, European Commission DG Agriculture and Rural Development, Brussels, Belgium
Marja Toivonen, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Renee Pardello, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA
Vincenzo Angileri, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Laurens Klerkx, Wagenigen University & Research, The Netherlands
James Fitzgerald, Independent Agricultural Consultant, Ireland
The role of the Advisory Board is to:
- Provide advice, quality assurance and shape the research agenda of AgriLink
- Ensure that the views and needs of international decision makers’ experts’ and practitioners’ views and needs are included/taken into account, throughout the duration of the project and thus guarantee an effective two-way communication
- Assist to disseminate the results generated by the research effort and
- Support the implementation and integration of the developed tasks and outputs of the project.