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Project

HortiCo 4.0

Lead Institute BW Institute of Farm Economics
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Collaborative project: Networking, Synergies and Transfer in Horticulture 4.0 (HortiCo 4.0)

Digitalization will have a major impact on horticultural production systems and horticultural value chains and will change the sector. Therefore, the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture has established the horticulture 4.0 funding priority in order to advance the development of digital solutions for the sector.

Background and Objective

The HortiCo 4.0 project aims to link the actors involved in research and development (R&D) projects on horticulture 4.0, in order to promote synergies, to support the transfer of results into practice and inform a broad public.

The objectives of HortiCo 4.0 are:

1) Networking of the innovation projects with each other and with similar projects not funded within the Horticulture 4.0 call guidelines as well as with actors of the value chain and politics.

2) Clustering of innovation projects according to their technical content in order to identify potential synergies, to support the implementation of these synergy effects, and to safeguard research data long-term.

3) Technical and economic analysis of the innovation clusters.

4) Critical analysis of the technical and economic potential benefits of the innovation clusters and evaluation of the effects in companies, on the sector and for the society.

5) Facilitate the adoption of innovations in horticultural value chain through transfer of important results of R&D projects to the target groups. The knowledge transfer targets in particular horticulture enterprises, technical consultation, technical school training, enterprises of the horticultural value chain as well as politics and administration.

6) Development of recommendations for innovation policies and identification of further research needs.

Approach

An organizational framework is created to support an intensive networking of R&D projects, to strengthen the exchange of information and experience between all project participants and to involve actors from industry and research outside horticulture.

A kick-off event helps to identify thematic clusters in a participatory process together with the R&D projects. Annual networking workshops of all R&D projects and topic-specific meetings of the innovation clusters promote regular change.

An advisory board accompanies the HortiCo 4.0 project and provides regular feedback and support.

Links and Downloads

www.hortico40.de

Thünen-Contact

Dr. Walter Dirksmeyer

Telephone
+49 531 596 5136
Fax
+49 531 596 5199
walter.dirksmeyer@thuenen.de
BW Institute of Farm Economics

Involved Thünen-Partners

Involved external Thünen-Partners

  • Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e.V. (ATB)
    (Potsdam, Deutschland)
  • Technische Universität Braunschweig
    (Braunschweig, Deutschland)
  • Dienstleistungszentrum Ländlicher Raum Rheinpfalz
    (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Deutschland)
  • Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Gartenbau (LVG) Heidelberg
    (Heidelberg, Deutschland)

Funding Body

  • Federal Ministry of Food und Agriculture (BMEL)
    (national, öffentlich)

Duration

1.2020 - 4.2024

More Information

Project funding number: 2818501A18
Funding program: Innovationsförderung
Project status: ongoing

Publications to the project

  1. 0

    Isaak M, Ludwig-Ohm S, Dirksmeyer W (2023) Challenge of implementing Horticulture 4.0 innovations in the value chain. Acta Hortic 1380:135-144, DOI:10.17660/ActaHortic.2023.1380.17

  2. 1

    Ludwig-Ohm S, Schäffer M (2023) Innovationen für einen Gartenbau 4.0. In: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (ed) Innovative Ideen, smarte Produkte : Innovationsförderung des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft - Förderverfahren, Themenfelder und Beispiele aus der Praxis - Themenschwerpunkt Pflanze. Bonn: BMEL, pp 38-40

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn068048.pdf

  3. 2

    Ludwig-Ohm S, Hildner P, Isaak M, Dirksmeyer W, Schattenberg J (2023) The contribution of Horticulture 4.0 innovations to more sustainable horticulture. Procedia Comput Sci 217:465-477, DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2022.12.242

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn065935.pdf

  4. 3

    Ludwig-Ohm S, Isaak M, Dirksmeyer W (2022) Technikfolgenabschätzung von Gartenbau 4.0-Innovationen im Vernetzungs- und Transfervorhaben HortiCo 4.0. In: Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie (ed) 23. Arbeitswissenschaftliches Kolloquium : Arbeit unter einem D-A-CH: Der Landwirt im 4.0-Modus ; 8./9. März 2022, Potsdam. Potsdam-Bornim: Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie, pp 32-42

  5. 4

    Ludwig-Ohm S, Wegner A (2021) Die Zukunftsfähigkeit des Gartenbaus sichern : Durch vernetzte Forschung zur Digitalisierung. Obstbau(5):306-309

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn063683.pdf

  6. 5

    Ludwig-Ohm S, Dirksmeyer W (2021) HortiCo 4.0: the networking and transfer project for horticulture 4.0 innovation funding in Germany. Acta Hortic 1327:817-822, DOI:10.17660/ActaHortic.2021.1327.108

  7. 6

    Ludwig-Ohm S (2020) BMEL-Förderschwerpunkt Gartenbau 4.0 - Experten für HortiCo 4.0 gesucht. ZVG Gartenbau Report 46(12):12

  8. 7

    Ludwig-Ohm S (2020) Gartenbauliche Forschungsprojekte zur Digitalisierung vernetzen sich. TASPO 154(40):15

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn062778.pdf

  9. 8

    Ludwig-Ohm S, Dirksmeyer W (2020) Vernetzung. Synergien. Transfer. HortiCo 4.0. ZVG Gartenbau Report 46(3):14

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