The Agricultural European Digital Innovation Hub for Hungary
The AEDIH project accompanies agricultural enterprises through the different stages of the customer lifecycle, providing them complementary services that build on each other in a modular system. This pathway starts with the digital scoping where the digital maturity level of the agricultural enterprises is assessed according to an adapted ADMA (Agricultural Digital Maturity Assessment) methodology. This is followed by the preparation of an individual digital development roadmaps, tailored to the organisation. The roadmap is developed in close collaboration with the respective enterprise and includes recommendations for digital upgrades, including specific service proposals of AEDIH. The next step strives for enhancing the digital readiness of the agricultural enterprises and supports the roll-out of digital upgrades by providing training, demonstration opportunities, testbeds and tests before investment as well as concrete investment planning. Fostering digital upscaling is the third level of implementation, this is where the actual digitisation development takes place, the agricultural enterprise is integrated into the agro-digital ecosystem and AEDIH also supports them in identifying funding sources for their digital progress.
AEDIH sees agricultural enterprises as its primary, but not exclusive, target group and intends to involve agricultural advisors and businesses providing innovation and digitalisation products and services, who are not necessarily agro-specific, but agro-interested.
The foreseen approach explicitly reflects the low digital maturity of the primary target group and will guarantee the improvement in the proficiency level of digital literacy of the Hungarian small and medium sized agricultural enterprises.
Our services
ADMA
Digital maturity assessment as an applicant. The maturity test will be completed with all producers entering the project as well as upon exit. The maturity assessment consists of three parts, EU DMA, Agri-DMA+ (for enterprises) and Agri-DMA light (for persons).
Digital Roadmapping
The roadmap is developed in close collaboration with the respective enterprise and includes recommendations for digital upgrades, including specific service proposals by the AEDIH.
Tests before invest
The agricultural enterprises participating in the project can test digital technologies defined in the Digital Development Roadmap. The testing takes place preferably on the enterprise's own farm or on the digital demonstration farm.
Investment plans
Examination and evaluation of planned investments' financing under the “Digital Development Plan” and the creditworthiness, debt coverage and debt service of the enterprises, based on the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN).
The project activities are defined along the customer life cycle supporting the development of digital skills of agricultural producers:
- Digital maturity assessment as an applicant.
- Building the capacity of producers through training and education at different levels, based on the results of digital maturity assessment and the digital road map.
- Trainings on the operation of digital technologies, testing, visiting demonstration farms to transfer operational experience. In addition to experience, the test before invest service significantly increases the confidence associated with the implementation of digital technologies.
- At the end of the customer's lifecycle, the digital maturity test is repeated and the roadmap for the digital development of the farm is updated.