The Ministry of Economy, Employment and Digital Transformation of the Junta de Extremadura has launched four awareness workshops with the aim of presenting the new regional Agri-food Data Space to the sector.
According to the regional government, this tool will allow "scattered" information from the sector to be converted into market intelligence, useful for reinforcing the competitiveness and improving decision-making of Extremaduran agri-food farms and companies.
These workshops, financed with European Next Generation EU funds within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, will be held between June 23 and 29 in Cáceres, Mérida, Badajoz, and Plasencia. Participation is free and is aimed at producers, livestock farmers, cooperatives, oil mills, markets, regulatory councils, marketers, the agri-food industry, and technical personnel linked to the agricultural and food sector.
The Agri-food Data Space seeks to facilitate the secure exchange of data on production, prices, sales, or demand, with the purpose of generating aggregated knowledge that helps the sector anticipate market trends, better plan its activity, and adopt decisions based on verified information.
"We want data to work for the Extremaduran agri-food sector. Sharing information securely will generate useful knowledge to anticipate trends, improve competitiveness, and facilitate better decision-making by producers and companies," explained the Director General of Regional Digitalization of the Junta de Extremadura, Jesús Coslado.
The purpose is to transform the data provided by the different agents of the sector into "high-value" strategic information, guaranteeing their confidentiality and ownership, so that producers and companies have a "more complete" vision of market evolution and reinforce their planning and negotiation capacity.
The workshops will practically detail what a data space is, how it works, and the concrete benefits it can bring to the Extremaduran agri-food sector. Real use cases will also be presented, and frequently asked questions about information protection, the usefulness of the platform, and the different ways of collaborating with the project will be answered.
The sessions will also delve into the principles that underpin this digital infrastructure, such as data ownership by those who generate it, free access to derived services, and the majority participation of the sector itself in governance bodies.
Registration is free of charge and can be done through the channels enabled for each day until the planned capacity is reached.
Dates, locations, and times of the workshops
The first workshop will be held in Cáceres, on June 23, in the auditorium of the Polytechnic School. The second will take place in Mérida, on June 24, in the auditorium of the University Center.
On June 26, the session will move to Badajoz, where it will be held in the hyperaula of the School of Industrial Engineering, and the cycle will conclude on June 29 in the auditorium of the University Center of Plasencia.
All workshops will be held from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.