Agriregionieuropa 4th AIEAA CONFERENCE Pre-Conference Session POLICIES FOR KNOWLEDGE INTENSIFICATION: AN EU AGRICULTURE PERSPECTIVE Segreteria organizzativa / Organization associazioneAlessandroBartola c/o Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali Università Politecnica delle Marche Piazzale Martelli, 8 - 60121 Ancona Telefono e Fax 071 2207118 E-mail: [email protected] Sito web: www.associazionebartola.it SPERA associazioneAlessandroBartola Centro Studi Interuniversitario sulle Politiche Economiche Rurali e Ambientali Agriregionieuropa La partecipazione è gratuita e aperta a tutti. I lavori si terranno in lingua inglese. The Pre-Conference Session is free of charge. No registration is required. The event will be held in English. 4th AIEAA CONFERENCE Pre-Conference Session POLICIES FOR KNOWLEDGE INTENSIFICATION: AN EU AGRICULTURE PERSPECTIVE Con il Patrocinio di / With the Patronage of Thursday 11th June 2015 Facoltà di Economia “Giorgio Fuà” Piazzale Martelli, 8 Ancona THURSDAY 11th JUNE 2015 9:30 WELCOME ADDRESSES Sauro Longhi Rector of Università Politecnica delle Marche THURSDAY 11th JUNE 2015 11:30 Policies for innovations in the new RDP: the Italian regional experience Anna Vagnozzi CRA-INEA Francesco Maria Chelli Dean of Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Luca Papi Director of the Department of Economics and Social Sciences Roberto Esposti President of Associazione Alessandro Bartola 12:00 Implementing innovative solutions in EU farming: opportunities and challenges Matteo Bartolini 10:00 Knowledge intensification: a new frontier for a growing and sustainable agricultural production Allan Buckwell Institute for European Environmental Policy, London 10:30 The European Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) towards an interactive innovation model Krjin Poppe SCAR AKIS 11:00 Sustainable innovation for sustainable farmers: strategies, network and policies Laurens Klerkx Valentina Cristiana Materia Wageningen University 4th AIEAA CONFERENCE Pre-Conference Session POLICIES FOR KNOWLEDGE INTENSIFICATION: AN EU AGRICULTURE PERSPECTIVE President of CEJA (the European Council of Young Farmers) 12:30 DISCUSSION PRESENTATIONS Agriregionieuropa The Pre-Conference Session of the 4th AIEAA Conference aims at animating the scientific debate on the proper design, implementation and evaluation of policies fostering sustainable agricultural innovation and expanding the knowledge base in this respect. The attention, in particular, is on the need of european agriculture of finding new ways to achieve higher production and productivity growth rates without jeopardizing the natural capital. This can be achieved by intensifying the use of knowledge: the only production factor that does not bring about negative environmental consequences.