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ESEE Conference Day 2, Tuesday June 22

Outline Agenda 

08.30 - 09.00 Opening Session 
09.15 - 10.45

Oral presentations - Four parallel Sessions

Theme 1  - Digital delivery of advice and education: What have we learned from the disrupted norm?
Theme 2 - The evolving roles of advisors and educators in supporting learning
Theme 3 - Lifelong learning. Encouraging and facilitating continuous learning and development by rural individuals, households, and communities.
Theme 4 - Evaluation and impact assessment of Agriculture Education and Innovation support models

11.00 - 12.30 Oral presentations - Four parallel Sessions - Theme 1 - 4 as above
13.00 - 14.00

Teagasc/Lakeland collaboration in Extension

14.30 - 15.30  CAFRE/Teagasc Extension Seminar
16.00 - 17.30 Poster presenters available in their Booth
17.30 - 18.30 ESEE Committee Business Meeting (Zoom) 
18.30 - 19.30 Teagasc/ESEE Pub Quiz Round II

Watch the recording of the Opening Session below

Detailed morning agenda


Oral Presentations: Four parallel Sessions   09.15 – 12.30


Theme 1: Digital delivery of advice and education: What have we learned from the disrupted norm?

Session 3- Title: Increasing the digital capacity of end-users
Chair: Kevin Connolly, Teagasc
TimeHopin VenueTopic - Speaker
09.15   Stage Designing a digital knowledge exchange platform that puts the end user first - Emily Bull


Understanding user engagement with digital technologies in agriculture: Implications for agricultural advisory services - Karen McGrath
Veterinary Dialogue Trainer: Facilitating behavioural change of advisors and their farmers via effective communication - Tessa Plagis
The impact of online agricultural extension to farmers in Greece: A case study - Evangelos Vergos
Questions and Answers 
10.45   End of Session  

Watch the recording of Theme 1 - Session 3 below

Session 4 - Title: Learnings from cooperation and networking
Chair: Peter Paree, ZLTO
TimeHopin VenueTopic - Speaker
11.00   Stage   Learning from Virtual Networking among EU COST Action collaborations - John McNamara


Participatory Learning & Action with diverse value chain actors in a Covid-19 context: opportunities and challenges - Jose Gutierrez
Stakeholder-oriented business model: a case study of digitized extension service and mechanization technology in the rice sector in West Africa - Rico Amoussouhoui
Exploring the digital divide in agriculture: A study in 5 SE European countries - Cosmin Salasan
Questions and Answers 
12.30   End of Session  

Watch the recording of Theme 1 - Session 4 below


Theme 2: The evolving roles of advisors and educators in supporting learning. 

Session 3 - Title: Co-design of advisory methods or programs
Chair: Esmail Karamidehkordi
TimeHopin VenueTopic - Speaker
09.15   Stage    Multi-actor co-design of extension interventions: paradoxes arising in three cases in the Republic of Ireland - Aine Macken-Walsh


Understanding the conditions for living labs - Jorieke Potters
Best practice guidelines for effective collaboration between teachers and industry professionals in the Australian agriculture sector - Amy Cosby
A typology of capacity strengthening interventions to enhance innovation - Manuela Bucciarelli / Tim Chancellor
Questions and Answers 
10.45   End of Session  

Watch the recording of the session below

Session 4 - Title: New challenges for the governance of farm advice
Chair: Alex Koutsouris
TimeHopin VenueTopic - Speaker
11.00   Stage    Good Data Governance in Digital Agriculture: Implications for Agricultural Advisors and Educators - Claire Brown


The Multi-Level Governance of the Multi-Actor Approach to agricultural innovation: bottlenecks and good practices - Jekaterina Markow
Rethinking the role of public extension services: the role of Italian Regional Agencies for Development and Innovation in Agriculture - Patrizia Proietti
Learning organisation characteristics for enhancing ICT use in agriculture advisory provision - Fanos Birke
Questions and Answers 
12.30   End of Session  

Watch the recording of the session below


Theme 3:  Lifelong learning: Encouraging and facilitating continuous learning and development by rural individuals, households, and communities.

Session 3 - Title: Co-design of advisory methods or programs
Chair: Artur Cristóvão
TimeHopin VenueTopic - Speaker
09.15   Stage    Continuous social learning in agricultural knowledge and innovation systems - a practice-based approach - Lisa Blix Germundsson


Engaging farmers in European Innovation Partnerships – A case study of the Farming Rathcroghan EIP in Co. Roscommon, Ireland - Luke Clogher
The role of environmental worldviews in explaining farmers' water conservation behaviour - Naser Valizadeh
Questions and Answers 
10.45   End of Session  

Watch the recording of the session below

Session 4 - Title: Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion
Chair: Eelke Wielinga
TimeHopin VenueTopic - Speaker
11.00   Stage    Supporting women farmers to access extension education services within particular social and cultural rural environments and towards changing food claims - Alexandra Tsiaousi


Identifying professional training needs of women in German rural areas - Beatriz Herrera
Diversity and inclusion in agricultural education: The experiences and perspectives of staff working in vocational agricultural education in Ireland - Margaret Farrell
Indigenous Knowledge Exchange Systems: Evolving Roles for Extension and Educators at U.S. Land Grant Universities - William Hubbard
Questions and Answers 
12.30   End of Session  

Watch the recording of the session below


Theme 4: Evaluation and impact assessment of Agriculture Education and Innovation support models

Session 3 - Title: Evaluating Innovation support (services)
Chair: Kevin Heanue
TimeHopin VenueTopic - Speaker
09.15   Stage    Social Network Analysis of spreading and exchanging agricultural information on Twitter: the case of an agricultural research and education centre in Mexico - Norman Aguilar-Gallegos


Diversity of innovation support service-situations for agri-food innovations in the global South - selected findings from cases in Madagascar and Cameroon - Hycenth Tim Ndah
Designing a New Evaluation Aproach for Innovation Support: A Case Study of Teagasc - Kevin Heanue
Questions and Answers 
10.45   End of Session  

Watch the recording of the session below

Session 4 - Title: Frameworks and approaches to assessing indicators, functions and sub-systems
Chair: Maria Gerster-Bentaya
TimeHopin VenueTopic - Speaker
11.00   Stage    Productive inclusion of stakeholders in evaluation and impact assessment within agricultural knowledge and innovation systems - Lisa Blix Germundsson


FAO indicator framework for assessment of Agricultural Innovation Systems - Manuela Bucciarelli
Understanding AKIS – How to ensure we do not overlook key actors and their interactions? - Susanne von Muenchhausen
Assessing maturity of agricultural innovation sub-systems in Sub-Saharian Africa: the case of agroecological and organic innovation subsystems in Burkina, Cameron and Madagascar - Syndhia Mathe TBC
Questions and Answers 
12.30   End of Session  

Watch the recording of the session below


Afternoon programme

TimeHopin VenueTopic
13.00 -14.00 Main Stage

Topic Chair - Tom O’Dwyer,Teagasc Signpost Programme Manager.

Working together to support Lakeland Dairies milk suppliers. 

Teagasc and Lakeland Dairies have collaborated on a Joint Farm Development Programme since 2013. The current programme is the third phase.
Join Joe Patton and Owen McPartland, Teagasc and Adrian McKeague Lakeland Dairies as they discuss the objectives of and the challenges faced by the programme. The impact of the programme and how it has developed over time will alsobe discussed.
Lakeland Dairies milk suppliers, Micheal Smith and Ciaran Boylan, share their experiences of involvement in the programme. 

Watch the recording below

14.30 - 15.30 Main Stage

Topic Chair - David Colbourne, Teagasc Regional Manager

CAFRE/Teagasc Extension Advisory Seminar

Outline of the role and operation of the advisory service north and south of the national boundary on the island of Ireland. The services are operated by the Teagasc Knowledge Transfer service in the Republic of Ireland and the CAFRE Knowledge Advisory Service in Northern Ireland.
There will be particular reference to how these services have been impacted by recent challenges. How their delivery models have adapted and what these services might look like in the future

16.00-17.30  

Poster presenters available in their Booth.

17.30-18.30  

ESEE Committee Business Meeting

18.30-19.30

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/94077300990
Meeting ID: 940 7730 0990
Passcode: 222222

Chair - Anita Naughton

Teagasc/ESEE2021 Pub Quiz Round II