BOOST aims to boost agribusiness acceleration and digital hub networking by providing a sophisticated business training programme for the application of sustainable Precision Agriculture (PA) methodologies on management, entrepreneurship & marketing, networking, and digital transformation through new organizational models (agribusiness incubators/accelerators, access to digital hubs for extraversion and knowledge dissemination), by linking Higher Education (HE), Vocational Education and Training (VET), Research and Technological Development (RTD), Farmers and Associations in a common framework based on their real training needs in PA.
The main advantages of BOOST are: a) the innovative approach of networking among HE, VET, RTD, Farmers and Students with real business incubators/accelerators and Agriculture 4.0 experts, b) the introduction to World Trade and Digital Information through EU Digital Hubs for the digital transformation of the primary sector & c) the PA profitability. BOOST aims to identify the training needs in PA, Digitalization and Business development, to fill the gap among research and practice and to build bridges between the traditional productive model and an innovative, sustainable, and entrepreneurial one. Students and young farmers will be trained as future agripreneurs and Agriculture 4.0 PA adopters, challenged by real experiences with Technological and Business development ecosystems and will interact with enterprises and farmers to identify the sector’s problems and opportunities and to develop new business ideas and technologies. In the long run, the project outputs will create solid synergies between HE, VET and innovative agricultural enterprises and will eventually contribute to the efficient implementation of EU policies in agriculture, like boosting agricultural business development using Agriculture 4.0.