New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation
The Slovenian NEWBIE Award 2020 competition has opened for new entrants The last from three NEWBIE Award competitions in Slovenia has opened for new entrants. NEWBIE award will recognize the work and innovation of new entrants to farming that have set up their business within the last 2–10 years, innovatively overcome hurdles (access to market, […]
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) […]
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 […]
Report by Rositsa Djambazova, our Bulgarian Newbie partner The #newbieproject field visits of Slovenian innovative farms was one of the most wanted events of #newbieconference2020. The organization by the Department of Geography, University of Ljubljana was excellent. They prepared two itineraries for excursions. I was lucky to visit the South East of Slovenia, the Dolenjska […]
The Newbie Consortium looks back at a successful four-day program in Ljubljana. The title of the event is probably a very good summary of what we actually achieved during these days: creating environments for dialogue on new entrants in farming. A dialogue requires people to be willing to share ideas and listen to each other. […]
