Connecting and mobilizing the EU agricultural advisory community to support the transition to Climate Smart Farming - ClimateSmartAdvisors

气候智能顾问是一个覆盖27个国家的泛欧洲多参与者网络。其目的是促进欧盟农业咨询社区，导致更广泛的农业社区在欧盟内部和整个欧盟加快采用气候智能(CS)农业实践。为了实现这一目标，气候智能顾问专注于顾问在CS创新和实践的开发和传播中的关键作用。该项目将组织活动，重点加强顾问提供CS建议的能力，并通过参与创新项目、CS-AKI和欧盟项目和倡议，加强顾问在向CS农业过渡中的作用。为加强欧盟咨询界的社会保障咨询能力，开展了一系列补充活动：1)一个由260个咨询实践社区(COP)组成的全欧盟网络，以支持1500名顾问的发展；2)140名顾问将接受与其背景相关的选定专题的专家培训，并为一次COP提供便利；3)COP将在国际上交流12个专题领域的知识；4)一个知识库将向顾问提供在气候农庄示范项目中开发并在气候智能顾问中进一步扩大的CS工具、做法和方法；5)监测、评价和学习活动将利用项目内外所学到的经验教训。加强顾问在CS过渡中的作用的活动包括：1)与当地和欧盟(多参与者创新)项目、倡议、Akis参与者和政策制定者建立联系，以澄清和解决共同的需求、挑战和经验教训；2)设立共同设计创新实验，了解如何加强顾问在创新过程中的作用。最后，为了加快成果的广泛传播，将在欧盟和国家一级部署一项雄心勃勃的传播、利用和传播战略。

ClimateSmartAdvisors is a pan-European multi-actor network covering 27 countries. Its aim is to boost the EU agricultural advisory community, leading to an acceleration of the adoption of climate smart (CS) farming practices by the wider farming community within and across EU AKISs. To reach this objective, ClimateSmartAdvisors focuses on the crucial role of advisors in the development and dissemination of CS innovations and practices. The project will organize activities focusing on strengthening the advisors’ capacity in providing CS advice and boosting the advisors’ role in the transition towards CS farming through their involvement in innovation projects, CS-AKIS, and EU projects and initiatives. A number of complementary activities are developed to strengthen the CS advisory capacity of the EU advisory community: 1) an EU-wide network of 260 advisory Communities of Practice (CoP) to support the development of 1500 advisors will form the core of CS knowledge exchange; 2) 140 advisors will receive expert training on selected topics, relevant for their context and for facilitating a CoP; 3) CoPs will internationally exchange knowledge on 12 thematic areas; 4) a knowledge repository will provide advisors with CS tools, practices and approaches developed in the ClimateFarmDemo project and further expanded in ClimateSmartAdvisors, 5) monitoring, evaluation and learning activities will capitalize lessons learned in and outside the project. Activities to boost the advisors role in the CS transition include: 1) connecting to local and EU (multi-actor innovation) projects, initiatives, AKIS actors, and policy makers to clarify and address joint needs, challenges and lessons learned, 2) the set-up of Co-Design Innovation Experiments to learn on how to strengthen the advisors’ role in innovation processes. Finally, to accelerate the wide spread of results, an ambitious dissemination, exploitation and communication strategy will be deployed at EU and national levels.