Year: 
2026
Stakeholder type: 
Consumer
Farmer & Cooperative
Industry & Retail
Policy maker
Technology provider
Short description: 
This presentation, given at the IFA Conference 2026, introduces the EU-funded projects COREnet and EU4Advice. These are two sister Horizon Europe projects building European networks of advisors for short food supply chains (SFSCs). The presentation explains why SFSCs matter and why their advisors need specialised skills. It also shows how the projects connect advisors and policy-makers and integrate them into national AKIS. Finally, it presents their shared training approach: modular eLearning, Living Labs, Golden cases, Lighthouse projects and peer learning.
Author(s): 
EU4Advice (Sofía Reis - ISEKI-Food Association) and COREnet (Artur Gregório - In Loco)
Workpackage: 
WP6
Project: 
CORENET
EU4ADVICE
Publication type: 
Presentation