Horizon Europe project BrightSpace

🌿 Summer check-in for @brightspace-project.eu WP11 ✅
Progress continues:
📌 Sept retreat prep
📌 AGMEMOD training ✔️
📌 @act4cap27.eu - @brightspace-project.eu - LAMASUS perspective paper ✔️
📌 5⃣th newsletter ✔️
Next WP11: 24 Nov
#HorizonEU #AgPolicy #Science4Policy
🧐👉https://tinyurl.com/4hp54f5y

🌱 🆕paper by @act4cap27.eu , @brightspace-project.eu & #LAMASUS @iiasa.ac.at shows why a sustainable agri sector is 🔑to EU prosperity & security.
💡 5 Priority Action Areas: resilience, nutrients, trade, bioeconomy, digitalisation.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mrrhye2p
#HorizonEU #VisionForAgriculture #EUGreenDeal

🤔 🫧 ❓Haven't you read our 5th @brightspace-project.eu newsletter? 🗞

Below is a quick preview. 👀

Also featuring latest news about our fellow projects: LAMASUS, @act4cap27.eu, Tools4CAP, GeneBEcon, Ration.

For all the details go to ➡ tinyurl.com/5h52ymca

🌄 A new policy brief, produced as part of the LAMASUS project, highlights that strategic agricultural de-intensification in the EU could help reduce agricultural carbon emissions by nearly a third and considerably improve biodiversity recovery.

Learn more 👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/jul-202...

🎥 BrightSpace x LAMASUS: Explore how Horizon Europe projects collaborate on agri-food policy modelling!

From farm typologies to policy baselines: 🧐watch short interviews with our researchers sharing insights.

🔗 tinyurl.com/3tuv3vua

#EUAgri #HorizonEurope #Food

Recap of the #AGMEMOD Model & Scenario-Building Workshop

4 days of hands-on training in EU #AgPolicy modelling, backed by #HorizonEU @act4cap27.eu , @brightspace-project.eu & TOOLS4CAP by colleagues from @wursocialeconomic.bsky.social & @thuenen.de

👉https://tinyurl.com/5d8dcmev

#EUAgri #CAP

📢 New peer-reviewed #OpenData dataset in @springernature.com Scientific Data!

GRAPE: a global record of public agri‑R&D investment & personnel from 1960–2022.
This vital resource feeds into CAPRI, GLOBIOM & MAGNET models in @brightspace-project.eu WP7. 📊📈

👉https://rdcu.be/eu71T

🔍 How can micro-level evidence strengthen macro-level models?

@brightspace-project.eu partners held a workshop to align WP3 empirical studies with CAPRI, GLOBIOM & MAGNET modelling – ensuring real-world insights feed into future EU agri-food scenarios.

👉https://tinyurl.com/58ecpr7u

The LAMASUS HE project & @brightspace-project.eu Summer School (2–6 June 2025, @IIASAVienna) trained early-career researchers in cutting-edge agri-food policy modelling - from CAP & GLOBIOM to biodiversity & biophysical models.

A full week of tools, teamwork & theory!

👉 tinyurl.com/yb3d7yjs

🔍 Have you explored GRAPE yet?

🆕dataset: consistent, global data on public agricultural R&D across 190 countries (1960–2022).
An asset for research & policy, supported by #brightspace-project.eu & captured in a recent preprint.

👉https://tinyurl.com/4tnkuzdu

#AgriRD #CAPRI #DataForPolicy

Read the latest newsletter of our fellow project @act4cap27.eu afresh!

🚨 #BrightSpaceEU Mid-Year Newsletter Coming Soon!

Catch up on our latest work, expert insights, joint publications, & collaborations with #LAMASUS, @act4cap27.eu , #GeneBEcon , #RATION & more..

📬 Subscribe now:
👉 brightspace-project.eu/newsletters/
#AgriPolicy #EUAgriSJOS #ScienceToPolicy

🔍 Why is costing crucial in agri-food policy modelling?

Dr. Felicity Addo from IIASA shares insights from the LAMASUS project in this quick interview at the 2024 BrightSpace - LAMASUS joint session in Seville.

📽️ Watch now: youtu.be/DUJnG2Tt4TQ

#AgriFood #Modelling

BrightSpace at the EU Vision Conference on Agriculture and Food, 8 May 2025, Brussels, BE - BrightSpace BrightSpace & ACT4CAP27 Showcase Tools for a Sustainable EU Agri-Food Future At last week’s 2025 EU Vision Conference on Agriculture and Food BrightSpace and its fellow project ACT4CAP27 both joined t...

🚜 #brightspace-project.eu & @act4cap27.eu joined the #EUVisionConference (8 May, Brussels) to showcase how advanced modelling supports a resilient agri-food future & the #CAPBeyond2027.

🤝 Stakeholder engagement is key to evidence-based policy!
🔗 tinyurl.com/2n6bcv6m

#ScienceToPolicy

🔍 How can a shared farm typology improve EU agri-food policy #modelling?

Hugo Scherer (WSER) explains the benefits of harmonised typologies across #BrightSpaceEU & LAMASUS at the 2024 annual meeting in Seville.

📽️ Watch 👉 youtu.be/i5U3FuEqpvs

#EUAgri #WeCollaborate

BrightSpace 2nd Modelling Workshop to Advance SJOS Indicator Integration - BrightSpace On April 8, 2025, the second BrightSpace Modelling Workshop brought together modelling teams both in-person at the WUR The Hague Office and online via Teams. The workshop focused on strengthening the ...

🔍 How do we model a Safe & Just Operating Space for EU agriculture?
At the 2nd #BrightSpaceEU Modelling Workshop, teams aligned indicators, filled modelling gaps & launched an action plan to deliver evidence for future policy.
tinyurl.com/yybtpuxk
📊 #HorizonEU #CAPBeyond2027

🤝 @brightspace-project.eu, GeneBEcon & Ration projects #WeCollaborate

On 12 May, we met online to advance collaboration on food system sustainability, new genomic techniques & policy modelling.

Plans include a joint workshop at #EAAE2025!

🧐👉https://tinyurl.com/4c97yy2n

🎥 Why use multiple models in research projects?

Dr. Willem-Jan van Zeist explains ex-ante modelling with MAGNET in #BrightSpaceEU & #LAMASUS during their joint session in Seville.
📺 Watch the clip: youtu.be/sxo5NIB3OZY

#WeCollaborate #HorizonEurope #EUagriSJOS

🚨 🆕 @brightspace-project.eu #OpenAccess Article! 🚨

Impact of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Policies on the Transition Towards a Safe and Just Operating Space for EU Agri-Food Systems published in Q Open! 🌱

🔗https://tinyurl.com/3hyxxa99

#BrightSpaceEUresults #EUagriSJOS #AgriFoodSystems

🐄🐖🐓 Following our 3 April Expert Consultation on #AnimalWelfare, the #BrightSpaceEU team met online on 4 April to reflect on key insights. We're now working to distill findings, and explore integration into #EUagriSJOS modelling tools.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/3rmz7u8u

👏Many thanks to participants for their expert insights on #AnimalWelfare in a Safe & Just Operating Space!

On April 3, @brightspace-project.eu hosted a consultation to identify welfare indicators across species & production stages.🐄🐖🐓

🧐👉https://tinyurl.com/mr39snv2

@w-u-r.bsky.social @thuenen.de

📌#BrightSpaceEU 4th #SPAB Meeting (17/3/2025) highlights:
✔ Progress on #EUagriSJOS Thresholds
✔ Expert consultation: animal welfare indicators (3/4/2025)
✔ Preparing for #EUAgriVision Conference (8/5/2025)

🧐👉https://tinyurl.com/3cj4e3ew

📢 BrightSpace Expert Consultation:
🔍 Focus: "Animal Welfare in a Safe & Just Operating Space for European Agriculture"🐄🐖🐓

🗓 3 April 2025 | Online

📌 Agenda Highlights:
🧐👉https://tinyurl.com/39cjukrx

🚀 CAPRI Course 2025 – Now Open for Registration!

📊 Learn #CAPRI, a key model for #agri-food policy analysis!

📅 April 17 – July 17, 2025 | 🕛 Thursdays 12:00–16:00 CET
📍 Hybrid | Humboldt University, Berlin

📌 GAMS modelling | 📌 CAPRI structure | 📌 Hands-on exercises

🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3c4jyt

Meet @brightspaceeu.bsky.social #AMYRN Fellow:Hugo Scherer! 🌱

Hugo is assessing drought impacts on EU farm income using #IFM-CAP & #FarmDyn in order to refine policy simulations to support resilient farming strategies!

🧐➡️ tinyurl.com/mny3xbze

#DroughtResilience #AgriculturalModelling

Meet @brightspaceeu.bsky.social #AMYRN Fellow: Damilola Aladesuru! 📊

She is using econometrics & machine learning to explore how precision farming affects field structure, biodiversity & farm income.

🧐➡️ tinyurl.com/mny3xbze

#AgriculturalModelling #PrecisionFarming #ClimateResilience

Meet @brightspaceeu.bsky.social #AMYRN Fellow: Yan Jin!📊

Yan is strengthening economic modelling capacity by integrating GTAP & MAGNET models into BrightSpace research.

Her work advances stochastic modelling & improves #AgriculturalPolicyAnalysis!

🧐➡️ tinyurl.com/mny3xbze

#AgriculturalModelling

🚀 WP11 Meeting: 24 March 2025 – Key Updates & Events 📢

🔹 #AnimalWelfare Webinar – April 3, 2025
🔹 Capacity Building – CAPRI training, Summer School, & AGMEMOD session in June
🔹 New #SJOS Platform
🔹 2nd Stakeholder Retreat planned for autumn

🧐👉https://tinyurl.com/yj4vpwf9

Meet @brightspaceeu.bsky.social #AMYRN Fellow: Ninke Feenstra!

Ninke is linking the MAGNET model to microsimulation to assess EU agricultural policy changes.

Her work enhances our understanding of income, food, & employment impacts!

tinyurl.com/mny3xbze

#AgriculturalModelling

AMYRN - BrightSpace AMYRN: Agricultural Model Young Researcher Network To further strengthen capacity-building efforts, BrightSpace has established the Agricultural Model Young Researcher Network (AMYRN). This initiative...

🔎 What is #AMYRN?

The Agricultural Model Young Researcher Network in @brightspaceeu.bsky.social supports through research exchange PhDs & postdocs to gain hands-on experience in applying modelling approaches to inform agricultural policy.

tinyurl.com/mny3xbze

#AgriculturalModelling