New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation
Being the largest youth organisation in rural Germany with more than 100,000 members, representation is a cornerstone of BDL’s work. For that reason, the German Rural Youth Association (BDL = Bund der Deutschen Landjugend e.V.), has used the forced time-out of the Covid19 pandemic to launch the “Young Farmers Study” in its Young Farmers Project. […]
The Irish Newbie competition for 2021 has recently closed for entries. New entrants include those who are newcomers to agriculture, those changing enterprise, those diversifying and successors on existing farms. The entries will now be shortlisted and the judging panel will visit each of the finalists. The farm visit will include an assessment of the […]
The Belgian Newbie team of KU Leuven and the German Newbie team of Fachhochschule Südwestfalen are developing a Massive Open Online Course together about how to create a strategic business model in the agricultural sector. The course will be hosted on EDX, an international learning platform, starting from January 2022. For this course, the two […]
RENETA organized a Discussion Circle on 24th June 2021 on the topic of “Food and Agricultural Policies to support new entrant?”. Over 150 participants gathered from different regions of France, including Martinica! The meeting took place in Mimizan (Nouvelle Aquitaine Region), co-organized by RENETA and the “Landes” District, which has an ambitious policy to support […]
Slovenian farmer stories available online During summer Slovenian team filmed the last 3 farmer stories (11 in total). First is Domen Virant who took over the abandoned farm from his grandmother in 2015 and started a new farm business from the beginning. He admitted that “a farm without mechanization and financial stability is a big […]
The Portuguese Newbie team organized a national visit to different initiatives and projects of interest, instead of the programmed international exchange due to logistic constraints from the pandemic. The visit took place between the 14-15 July and we were joined by a Bulgarian delegation of four. The two-day program aimed to get to know different […]
