Knowledge Transfer Conference 2024
23 October 2024 23 October 2024
Event Time 8.30am
Venue Teagasc, Ashtown, Dublin, D15 DY05
Agricultural Knowledge Exchange in a Changing World - Sharing learning from the UCD/Teagasc Masters in Agricultural Innovation Support and Masters in Agricultural Extension and Innovation programmes.
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The conference will be of interest to all those working in public and private agricultural advisory and education services and for those interested in improving the processes of knowledge transfer and knowledge exchange in the farming sector.
Conference Programme
| Time |
Topic |
| 8.30am |
Registration and Tea/Coffee |
| 9am |
Welcome and Opening Remarks - Dr Monica Gorman, UCD
Keynote Address - Owen Murphy, Wildlife Management Specialist, Breeding Waders EIP
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| 9.40am |
Session 1: Agricultural Education – keys to unlock innovation - Chair: Dr Anne Marie Butler, Teagasc
- A National Induction Programme for Agricultural Educators in Ireland - Anne Maria Aird
- The development and modernisation of the Teagasc Competency Framework for Agricultural Advisors and Educators - Rachel Clancy
- Examining attitudes to the inclusion of a Farm Diversification module in Green Cert Programme - Serena Gibbons
- Identifying, supporting, and attracting a diversity of learners to Teagasc further education and training courses - Marc McKeon
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| 10.40am |
Tea/Coffee |
| 11.10am |
Session 2: People matter the social dimension of advisory and education - Chair: Dr Brian Leonard, UCD
- Succession and inheritance project teams - Bryan Twomey
- Improving engagement of part-time farmers with advisory services - Claire Dolan
- Examining dairy farmers decision making process regarding core and non-core tasks - Aoife Seymour
- Evaluation of the Teagasc podcast as a virtual advisory method and recommendations for future development - John Mahon
- Farm Safety Interventions to help advisors promote safety with livestock - Ciaran Kinahan
- Supporting Farmer Mental Health - Paul Nangle
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| 12.30pm |
Lunch |
| 1.30pm |
Session 3: Building momentum with farmers on the climate and environment challenge - Chair Dr George Ramsbottom, Teagasc
- Improving the effects of Results-Based agri-environmental Payment Schemes (RBPS): Lessons from Wild Atlantic Nature RBPS - Gary Goggins
- Adjusting farm management to maximise climate and biodiversity ecosystem services in the Comeragh Mountain uplands - Oliver Gill/Helen Sheridan
- Investigating the attitudes held by Irish farmers regarding the specific elements of the organic certification process - Irene Shorthall
- An Investigation into the Adoption of a selection of the Signpost Programme 12 steps by Dairy Farmers in Limerick and Clare - Deirbhle Browne
- Assessing farmers attitudes towards including a multispecies sward on their farm - Kate Purcell
- Investigating the Factors That Affect Famers Decision to Adopt Clover and Multispecies Swards - Niall Bailey
- Farmer lead identification of barriers and solutions to the adoption of clover on dairy farms - Emily Gowing
- A multi actor local approach to increasing lime use on Irish farms - Clodagh Bolger
- Visual Tools to improve advisory services on soil health - Donal Brennan
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| 3.15pm |
Supporting farm level biodiversity - Dr Aoife Leader |
| 3.30pm |
Presentation of prizes and closing remarks - Dr Stan Lalor, Teagasc |
