New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation
Regions can boost agroecology by teaming-up with @EU_H2020, @EIPAGRI_SP & @ENRD_CP. To discuss the how and when, a workshop, co-organised by European Commission DG AGRI, the Committtee of the regions and the ERIAFF network, will take place on the 20th of October in the context of #EURegionsWeek. The workshop is titled “Regional living labs for agroecology” and aims to […]
Newbie discussion circle on access to labor and Flemish Award winner announcement On the 8th of September the Flemish Newbie team held a double event combining a discussion cirlce on access to labor with the announcement of the Flemish Newbie Award winners. Discussion circle on access to labor Access to good and reliable labor is […]
Real Estate Eyckenstein provides access to land to Dutch Newbies The newbie teams in the Netherlands just published an article about a real estate that gives place to 3 Newbies. The estate has a size of 430 hectares of land on which three new entrants in agriculture are renting land and buildings. There is the […]
Bulgarian NEWBIE Discussion Circe on new opportunities and services to agriculture and local cooperation On 3 September 2020 the Business Incubator-Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian NEWBIE team organized the 5–th Discussion Circle in Hadzhidimovo. The representatives of agricultural producers, potential newbies, associations, cultural and community centres and NGO discussed good practices and successful business models of NEWBIE […]
The Irish Newbie competition has opened for entries from successful new entrants to farming. New entrants include those who are newcomers to agriculture, those changing enterprise, those diversifying and successors on existing farms. The overall winner will receive a monetary prize and a plaque, as well as development of a YouTube video and extensive exposure […]
MRJC is a youth organization in rural areas, member of the steering committee of the Newbie project in France. It gathers young people from 13 till 30 years old in France, on the topics of rural development, education, employment, youth citizenship and agriculture. This year, MRJC organizes a “tour de France” of innovative farms […]
How will European farming look like in 2040? Which kind of farms will be present and who will be the farmers? These and further questions were discussed during the discussing circle “farmers of the future” in early 2020. Fachhochschule Südwestfalen organized in cooperation with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) this workshop […]
Culinary innovations increase the environmental and economic value of acorns Bolota viva is an inspiring example of an agri-food business that combines culinary innovations through acorn processing with the preservation of oak trees in the declining Montado silvopastoral landscape of Alentejo. Although traditionally used as animal feed, Sonia and Marco saw the opportunity to enhance […]
Belgian Newbie team cooperates with Generation Food Similar to the edition of 2019, the Belgian Newbie team choose to work with a two-step procedure to decide on its winner for the Newbie 2020 edition. Five farmers were selected in a first round by the Newbie team. After this round, we had two panels. On the […]
On the 7th of July 2020 the Bulgarian Steering Group had an online meeting to discuss the umbrella concept, the Bulgarian toolkits to support new entrants in agriculture, results of the NEWBIE award contest and the topics of the next discussion circle. The members were also updated about the NEWBIE activities and outputs of the […]
Overcoming licensing barriers in small-scale production and transformation was the topic of the discussion circle organised by Newbie Portugal on the 2 July at the University of Evora. The event brought together twenty-four participants including the different national and regional entities involved in issuing licenses, producers, processing businesses and scientists. The session focused on two […]
Cultivating land, not owning it This online discussion circle, with 10 participants on the 16th of June, was about sharing information and inspiration on the topic of access to land. In the Netherlands the prices for buying land are very high (60.000 – 100.000 euros a hectare) so for most new entrants that is not […]
Under the motto “A lot helps a lot ? Farm diversification today for tomorrow” the German Rural Youth Association (BDL), the German Farmers’ Association (DBV) and the Federal Information Centre Agriculture (BZL) invited young agricultural players to discuss future prospects. In days of Corona, the Farmers Lunch took place at the 25th of June as […]
The 5th Slovenian Steering group meeting brought together different stakeholders of the rural development to discuss the progress related to the NEWBIE project and the plan for coming year. The Steering Group consists of researchers, advisors, farming organisation representatives, policy makers, representatives of young farmers and new entrants into agriculture. The meeting (June 16, 2020) […]
Video recorded with 2019 Newbie competition winner and a video is released on “Long term land leasing” Just ahead of the introduction of Covid-19 restrictions a video was recorded with Steven Ryan, winner of the 2019 Irish NEWBIE competition. In the video Steven gives a comprehensive overview of his experience as a new entrant into […]
For the second edition of the Newbie Award in France, the jury chose to honour the GAEC “L’art du cochon” in Tartaras, near Lyon. Philippe Chorrier and Gauthier Ricordeau are partners and raise outdoor pigs, which they process and sell via several short supply chains (farmer’s shop, CSA, markets…). With this choice, the jury wishes […]
Soon after the measures against Covid-19 were relaxed in Bulgaria and participation in seminars and conferences was allowed, a very interesting workshop and discussion circle was held in Gotse Delchev on June 8, 2020 with a focus on the digitalization of agriculture and the advantages of cooperation. The event was organized by the Institute of […]
The 2019 Newbie Portugal Award was won by Raquel Alves, founder of the Ervitas Catitas farm, producing and selling organic aromatic herbs and essential oils. In 2008, after losing her job, Raquel turned the small herbal garden she had started on succession land as a personal hobby into Ervitas Catitas (Fancy Little Herbs in Portuguese) […]
Portuguese Steering Group – virtual meeting on ZOOM The 4th Portuguese Steering Group meeting took place on the 22nd of April to follow up on progress. One of the key points discussed was about the next steps in the creation of a farm incubator in the Alentejo region and most importantly reflections on potential entities […]
Belgian Newbie Award 2020 online voting Overview Five laureates remain in the Newbie Award 2020 competition for the most innovative and inspiring new entrant. Besides a voting round by a professional jury of industry stakeholders, the KU Leuven also added a second voting round on social media. On the Flemish website of the Newbie project, […]
Time to turn land challenges into opportunities The words challenging and unprecedented have been used a great deal understandably over the past few weeks but what we have seen is a renewed spirit and innovative ways to deal with some of these challenges in the UK. Alongside this, this has also been a sharpening of […]
At the beginning of April, the German Newbie-Team had this year’s first steering group meeting. What was planned to be a nice gathering in the vineyard of Weingut Walz with Newbie and BDL vice-president, Mara Walz, turned out to be a video conference after all (#stayathome). After a short overview on the overall as well […]
Bozhura Fidanska, PhD from the Institute of Agricultural Economics, an active member of the Bulgarian NEWBIE Steering group, took part in a National Scientific conference “Role of the family business for sustainable development” organized by Agrarian University Plovdiv and Foundation Land- source of income in March 2020. In the presentation “NEW BUSINESS MODELS – WAY […]
Restaurants are closing down. They are only allowed to offer take-away services. Supermarkets and hypermarkets have restrictions on the number and entry of customers and their opening hours. Open markets are also subject to limitations and many have ended up shutting down. Schools have been suspended. The small producers who supply local schools, restaurants and […]
A few weeks ago, RENETA organized the first training session for advisors on the topic of “supporting collective projects”. A significant part of new entrants wishes to develop their business within a collective framework. The notion of “collective” takes several ways: “working with”: each farmer is independent but shares and manages common tools or part […]
The 3rd Irish steering group meeting brought together the steering group in Portlaoise to discuss progress on the Newbie project and the plan for the coming year. The steering group is comprised of farm advisors, researchers, farming organisation representatives, financial personnel and recent new entrants to farming. The main objectives of the meeting were to; […]
At the Newbie consortium meetings we always dedicate one day to visiting new entrants for inspiration and discuss with them the challenges they face. Our team member Marcel Vijn writes an article of each visit which is published in the Dutch magazine Ekoland. For the Newbie project these articles are translated in English. You can […]
Domen Virant from Kmetija pri Ropet won NEWBIE Award 2019 in Slovenia. Domen is not quite the typical representative of young farmers. He took over the abandoned farm from his grandparents in 2015 and started a new farm business from the beginning. He did not choose the easiest way, but ambitiously began to diversify a […]
The preparations for the next European Newbie Event 2021 in Berlin have already started. The Bund der Deutschen Landjugend (BDL) is our host. The interactive conference will take place on the 20th of January 2021. This allows participants to combine the event with a visit to the Grüne Woche. To ensure an equally high standard […]
In November 2019 we called for applications for the Newbie-Award 2019. Innovative and imaginative newcomers from the German agricultural sector were invited to propose themselves and their business idea, their farm and their career for the Newbie-Award. The deadline for applications was February 29th, until then many farm managers and newcomers had applied. The selection […]
