FOODIE: Farm-Oriented Open Data in Europe

Project information
The agriculture sector is a unique sector due to its strategic importance for both European citizens (consumers) and European economy (regional and global) which, ideally, should make the whole sector a network of interacting organizations. Rural areas are of particular importance with respect to the agri-food sector and should be specifically addressed within this scope. The different groups of stakeholders involved in the agricultural activities have to manage many different and heterogeneous sources of information that need to be combined in order to make economically and environmentally sound decisions, which include (among others) the definition of policies (subsidies, standardisation and regulation, national strategies for rural development, climate change), development of sustainable agriculture, crop recollection timing and pricing, plagues detection, etc. In this context, future agriculture knowledge management systems have to support not only direct profitability of agriculture or environment protection, but also activities of individuals and groups allowing effective collaboration among groups in agri-food industry, consumers, public administrations and wider stakeholders communities, especially in rural domain.To that end. FOODIE project aims at building an open and interoperable agricultural specialized platform hub on the cloud for the management of spatial and non-spatial data relevant for farming production; for discovery of spatial and non-spatial agriculture related data from heterogeneous sources; integration of existing and valuable European open datasets related to agriculture; data publication and data linking of external agriculture data sources contributed by different public and private stakeholders allowing to provide specific and high-value applications and services for the support in the planning and decision-making processes of different stakeholders groups related to the agricultural and environmental domains.
Project partners: 
ATOS SPAIN SA
FUNDACION CTIC CENTRO TECNOLOGICO PARA EL DESARROLLO EN ASTURIAS DE LAS TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION
SERESCO SA
CONSORZIO DEI COMUNI DEL BACINO IMBRIFERO MONTANO DEL PIAVE APPARTE...
TEHNOLOGIJU ATTISTIBAS FORUMS
NETCAD YAZILIM ANONIM SIRKETI
INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK
PROGIS SOFTWARE GMBH
ENCO SRL
WIRELESSINFO
BODEGAS TERRAS GAUDA SA
MJM LITOVEL AS
Project dates: 
March 2014 to February 2017
Contact
Contact project
Contact organisation: 
ATOS SPAIN SA
Funding
Funding agency: 
European Commission - Competitiveness and innovation framework programme (2007-2013)
Grant: 
k€2960985
Total budget: 
k€5921972