The news brings more infomation and a collective photo of participants of the RATIO Exchange of Experience Event in Leipzig on April 4th and 5th, 2017.
The RATIO-Exchange of Experience Event in Leipzig shed light on insights gained from firms located in the partner’s rural areas. These firms are a group of the project’s stakeholders giving insights on the challenges they face with innovation. Even though the project partner’s regions are quite different in terms of size, population and economic power some of the needs detected in the various regions are the same. The most in common mentioned challenges are the lack of financial resources for the creation of innovation, the lack of qualified employees and the lack of sufficient internet connection. Each project partner selected two firms, at least, from its region being considered as a Good Practice. These Good Practices outstand in the way how they deal with the challenges characteristic for rural areas. The presentation of those Good Practices was meant to showcase the other project partners the selected firms’ approach. The overarching goal is to proof the transferability of the Good Practices’ approach to other rural areas. One of the Good Practices presented by the Aufbauwerk Region Leipzig GmbH is the firm Agri Con GmbH, which offers innovative solutions for precision farming. According to the participants’ feedback the study visit at the Agri Con GmbH was one of the highlights of the Exchange of Experience Event.
Another highlight was the visit of “terratec” trade fair in Leipzig. The topics were waste management and environmental service, use of resources and environmental technology. Several stakeholders, for example a Latvian cereal producer, took advantage of this fair and became acquainted with promising business partners.
