i2connect project aims to fuel the competencies of advisors who will support and facilitate interactive innovation processes. The 27 country reports compiled in this inventory give a comprehensive overview of the AKIS infrastructures and of the predominant agricultural and forestry advisory services on national and – if applicable – on regional levels. The reports provide up-to-date information for policy and practice in the respective countries in 2020.

• AKIS
• agricultural and forestry advisory services
• agricultural policies

This is a threefold tool devoted to support managing authorities, evaluators and other experts to analyse the AKISs, through gathering relevant data and information on both the contextual situation of the overall AKIS, particularly on advisory service, and of its interplays. The tool includes (a) a guideline for a comprehensive analysis and reporting of the AKIS, (annex I.a) (b) a questionnaire, for interviewing privileged AKISs actors, aimed at investigating relevant aspects that allow characterizing a specific AKIS (policy strategies, instruments and bodies, R&I infrastructures, advisory services, etc) (annex I.b) and, (c) a relational matrix for the rapid assessment of the interconnections within a specific AKISs (annex I.c).

• AKIS
• advisory services
• AKIS actors
• AKIS flows
• AKIS assessment
• interactions among AKIS actors

At the end of the project, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food organised a webinar to disseminate the main outcomes of this project based on interactive innovation. Agriculture and forestry – the basis for food, feed and countless other products to meet consumer and industrial demands – are integral parts of the European economy and society. Innovation and collaboration between various actors are key. That's why the EU Member States are promoting interactive innovation and reinforcing networks in different ways.

• interactive innovation
• practical cases
• country reports
• advisors
• training
• network
• legacy
• AKIS

This is a practical tool for carrying out Field Peer Reviews between operational groups. Field Peer Review consists of the review of an operational group (or an innovation process), with a particular focus on innovation support functions, by colleagues (peers) from another operational group, with the purpose of observing and analyzing practices, learning from the way how innovation has been realised by others, providing recommendations to the reviewed case to improve its processes.

• Field Peer Review Practical Tool
• Operational Groups
• Interactive Innovation Process
• Peers
• CAP Strategic Plan
• Monitoring and Evaluation

i2connect project aims to fuel the competencies of advisors who will support and facilitate interactive innovation processes. This document provides topical insights (issues, observations, problems or solutions) relevant to the support of interactive innovation by advisors who perform facilitation, knowledge brokering or other forms of support. These insights are written in short summary narratives with links to audio, audiovisual or infographic details if needed.

• advisors
• interactive innovation
• knowledge brokering
• innovation support

This tool can be to put in use by innovation support services providers directly through the excel format in annex III or maybe through an app for mobile/computer. The last could help prompt collection of data at field level and interconnection with other datasets (e.g., monitoring systems of CAP Strategic plans or of advisory organizations), through adding relevant information to monitoring and evaluation systems of advisory services. It is aimed both at individual and organized/associated advisors and policy makers. Advisors could use it for keeping track of the outputs of their advisory activities in the domain of interactive support services, evaluate the effects at end-user level and connect them to their competences and knowledge gaps in the specific field. The tool allows envisaging expected categories of outputs/results in relation to the predefined activities and business processes and this makes it being utilizable as a predictive tool to help decision making along the innovation spiral.

• innovation
• datasets

Las cartas de referencia rápida resumen los modelos y los métodos que se usan con frecuencia en la formación que ofrece i2connect. Lo que las hace especiales es su enfoque en la energía de las personas con iniciativas en procesos multiactor. Ellas crean redes que hacen que las cosas se muevan. Estas redes se comportan de manera diferente dentro de los proyectos y las organizaciones. Los participantes de estas redes no siguen la lógica de la jerarquía. Su motivación es clave. Las cartas sirven como una fuente de inspiración. No ofrecen recetas ni hojas de ruta a seguir. Origen: Las cartas están reproducidas mediante un acuerdo con Netwerk&Co, una cooperativa holandesa de profesionales en red que trabaja conforme a la teoría de las redes vivas.

• interactive innovation
• quick reference cards
• tools of co-creation
• co-creation
• training
• train the trainers
• advisors
• AKIS
• projects
• multiactor