GEORGIA (Green dEal cOmpliant iRriGation Increasing Europe’s Agriculture resilience to drought)

The GEORGIA consortium, consisting of 16 partners from 9 European countries and led by Synelixis SA, has joined forces to increase the resilience of agriculture to drought enhancing efficiency in water management.

The project assesses drivers and barriers of key innovative irrigation systems, including environmentally responsible recycling of sewage sludge and biowaste streams, biological water-absorbing geocomposites, as well as water abundance and scarcity solutions. In parallel, GEORGIA pursues their optimal application through local condition modeling and employment of Artificial Intelligence. To this end, the partners develop in-situ, drone-based and geospatial monitoring, an eXplainable-AI decision support system as well as Crop Digital Twins. GEORGIA enhances and validates these technologies starting from the farm level and upscaling at large-scale and catchment levels.

The socio-techno-economic approach is validated in 7 pilots in 6 countries, connected through a Federated Deep Machine Learning architecture. GEORGIA covers multiple crops, production types (conventional, intensive, agroecology and organic) and geographical regions, namely:

1. Mediterranean (Greece, Cyprus),
2. Southeast Europe-Balkans (Bulgaria, Serbia)
3. Central Europe-Midland (Austria), and
4. Continental EuropeBaltic Sea (Poland).

The project will be able to collect and process sensor data from farms that span from the Southern to Northeast Europe, along with organic and non-organic production. GEORGIA will also have access to large facilities such as Biological Cleaning Plant at BSL 3 covering large private farms, a Greek island (Santorini) and a Greek Region.

More than 1,200 farmers will be directly involved in the experimentation phase, providing insights and feedback on the AgriDataSpace platform and knowledge provided and more than 89,000 farmers will be directly and indirectly involved.

 GEORGIA partners

1. Synelixis Solutions S.A.
2. Netcompany-Intrasoft SA
3. Fos spa
4. Terra Littera Doo
5. Agrovar SS
6. Institouto Agrotikis kai Synetairistikis Oikonomias Inaso Paseges
7. Zukunftsraum Rothneusiedl
8. The Cyprus Phassouri Plantations Co. Limited
9. Perifereia Peloponnisou
10. Technologiko Panepistimio Kyprou
11. Geoponiko Panepistimion Athinon
12. Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wroclawiu
13. Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence
14. Alchemia-Nova Research & Innovation Gemeinnutzige GMBH
15. Reframe Food Astiki mi Kerdoskopiki Etairia
16. Water Europe