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A delegation from the European Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (EC DG AGRI) has recently visited Vilnius and met the representatives of the National Paying Agency (NPA) and the Ministry of Agriculture. 

The first meeting with all project partners of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme project DIONE took place the last week of January in Athens, Greece. It was hosted by ICCS – Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, the Project Coordinator at the Divani Acropolis Palace, Athens. The Horizon 2020 project will last until June 2022. Among the partners of the project consortium – the National Paying Agency, Lithuania.

 

The second meeting of the consortium partners of the H2020 NIVA project (New IACS Vision in Action) and the 1st Stakeholder Forum “Implementation of Checks-by-Monitoring“ took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 11-13 November 2019. A two-day NIVA project partner meeting was dedicated to NIVA progress, overview of implementation of project work packages (WP) and use case state of play (11-12 November). The subsequent event, the Stakeholder Forum, was aimed at the identified target groups, striving to involve in the project implementation and assessment process as many different stakeholders as possible (13 November). Both events were hosted by the Danish Agricultural Agency.

 

 

On 17-19 June 2019, the kick off meeting of NIVA (New IACS Vision In Action) project, funded by the Horizon 2020 (H2020) and coordinated by the University of Wageningen from Netherlands, took place in the Hague (Netherlands) with the presence of all the partners and also with members of several Directorates General of the European Commission (EC), including DG AGRI, DG CNECT, DG DIGIT, DG CLIMA and JRC. The National Paying Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture in Lithuania is among the partners of the project consortium, formed by 9 Member States and represented by the paying agencies, ministries, private companies and research institutes: Lithuania, Italy, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Greece and Estonia. 

Good news came from the European Commission – the registration of the Lithuanian Agro Space Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) has been completed.