The Congress, supported by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development within the CAP4Youth information campaign, brought together institutional representatives, scientists, entrepreneurs, and agri-food professionals to address one of the central challenges facing European and Greek agriculture today: generational renewal, combined with innovation and the transition towards sustainable, competitive farming.
The event focused on the role of young farmers in transforming Greek agriculture, lessons from the current CAP 2023–2027 programming period, the priorities for the next, and concrete success stories linking technology with the renewal of human capital in rural areas.
Why this matters for ScaleAgData
Neuropublic was present with a dedicated booth, displaying the ScaleAgData project banner and distributing project materials, creating opportunities for direct engagement with farmers, agricultural organizations, and regional stakeholders on how data and technology can support smarter, more sustainable farming decisions.
NP's presence at this Congress was not incidental, the themes at the heart of the event sit at the core of what ScaleAgData is building. The project's Research and Innovation Lab 2a, led by Neuropublic, is developing a data-driven Policy Monitoring Tool that aggregates farm-level IoT sensor data, Earth Observation imagery, and farm management records to generate sustainability indicators across Greek agricultural regions, precisely the kind of evidence base that policymakers and young farmers need to navigate the evolving CAP landscape.
The Congress audience (policymakers, regional authorities, young farmer representatives, and agri-food sector professionals) represents exactly the primary end-users and stakeholders that ScaleAgData's Greek demonstrator is designed to serve. With pilot activities spanning Thessaly, Crete, and Northern Greece, and data products aimed at monitoring CAP sustainability KPIs, ScaleAgData's work is directly relevant to the policy discussions that took centre stage in Xanthi.
Participation at this event also reinforces ScaleAgData's visibility at the national policy level: the Congress was held under the auspices of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace and the Municipality of Xanthi, and connected to EU-level communication priorities on the CAP — an important visibility opportunity for a Horizon Europe project whose outputs are designed to feed into future CAP monitoring and reform processes.