New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation
Last week the Belgian Newbie team filmed the last of their 10 Newbie videos. In a short while it will be made available on our YouTube channel. Topic of this last video is the small farm of new farmer Niels, De Veldhoeve. Niels started his farming career as a student worker on a pig farm […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The 2020 edition of the Flemish Newbie award goes about a little bit differently. One addition compared to last year is the introduction of a godparent system. Each participant is assigned a member of the Flemish steering board as their godparent for the competition. The goal is to further stimulate networking and introduce both parties […]
On the 14th of February 2020, the Belgian Newbie team (KU Leuven) organized a meeting on the topic of business models in agricultural education in Flanders. The Newbie team invited diverse stakeholders in Flanders to discuss this topic and explore the opportunity of cross-institutional cooperation in this field. The idea behind the workshop is obvious. […]
