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INNO-4-AGRIFOOD Smart ICT Tools

(web and mobile applications) Final version

March, 2018

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 681482. Coordinator: Q-PLAN International Advisors Ltd., Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Main Authors

✓ Ms Anastasia Matonaki, Mr Kostas Giagtzoglou (Q-PLAN INTERNATIONAL)

LEGAL NOTICE

The information and views set out in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Neither the European Union institutions and bodies nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained therein.

© INNO-4-AGRIFOOD Consortium, 2018

Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.

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INNO-4-AGRIFOOD Project Information

Title: “Capitalising the full potential of on-line collaboration for SMEs innovation support in the Agri-Food ecosystem” (Grant Agreement No 681482)

Duration: March, 2016 – August, 2018 (30 months)

Website: www.inno4agrifood.eu

Coordinator: Q-PLAN INTERNATIONAL LTD (www.qplan-intl.com)

Contact person: Mr. Kostas Bougiouklis, Tel.: +30 2310 411 191, E-mail: [email protected]

Project Overview:

INNO-4-AGRIFOOD is an EU-funded project set on fostering and stimulating online collaboration for innovation amongst SMEs active within the European Agri-food Ecosystem. To this end, INNO-4-AGRIFOOD aims at delivering a set of demand-driven value propositions including:

• A new generation of innovation support services to be provided by specialised innovation consultants to agri-food SMEs, enabling them to capitalise on the full potential of online collaboration for innovation.

• A suite of ICT tools to support the delivery of the novel online collaboration for innovation support services.

• A series of e-training courses to equip innovation consultants with the knowledge and skills required to successfully support the online collaboration for innovation endeavours of agri-food SMEs.

All INNO-4-AGRIFOOD value propositions will be co-created, demonstrated and validated in real-life contexts. Moreover, the accumulated experience and lessons learned of the project will be diffused across Europe so as to fuel the replication of its results and thus enable SMEs in other European sectors to tap into the potential of online collaboration for innovation as well.

Consortium:

1. Q-PLAN INTERNATIONAL LTD

(www.qplan-intl.com) - Greece

2. APRE - Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea

(www.apre.it) - Italy

3. IMP3rove - European Innovation Management Academy

(www.improve-innovation.eu) - Germany

4. EFFoST - European Federation of Food Science and Technology

(www.effost.org) – The Netherlands

5. BioSense Institute

(www.biosens.rs) - Serbia

6. National Documentation Centre

(www.ekt.gr) - Greece

7. Europa Media Non-profit LTD

(www.europamedia.org) - Hungary

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Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................... 2

1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................... 4

2. OBJECTIVES AND RATIONALE...................................................................................................... 5

3. ICT TOOLS OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 6

3.1 The wed application ........................................................................................................................... 6

3.2 The mobile application ..................................................................................................................... 11

4. ICT TOOLS ADMINISTRATION ................................................................................................... 13

4.1 Maintenance of the web sources database ..................................................................................... 13

4.2 Monitoring of the ICT Tools usage ................................................................................................... 15

5. SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT .......................................................................................................... 16

5.1 System architecture ......................................................................................................................... 16

5.2 Implementation ............................................................................................................................... 17

6. SUMMARISING MAIN FEEDBACK POINTS AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS .................................................... 18

7. CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS ............................................................................................... 20

ANNEX ....................................................................................................................................... 21

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Executive Summary

INNO-4-AGRIFOOD is an EU-funded project focusing on fostering and facilitating online collaboration for

innovation among SMEs operating in the European agri-food ecosystem. The project aims to enhance the

service portfolio and practices of innovation intermediaries and SME support networks across Europe, by

providing them with a set of novel innovation support services, along with dedicated ICT tools to facilitate

their delivery, as well as e-learning modules on knowledge and skills necessary to support online

collaboration for innovation among agri-food SMEs.

Following a methodological approach that unfolds in three rounds, the current report presents all the

functional and technical characteristics of the final version of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools, as

developed up until the 3rd and final development stage. Including both web and mobile applications, these

tools aim to facilitate the efficient delivery of the novel innovation support services for agri-food SMEs

developed by the project. While innovation consultants are their main user group, they also target agri-food

SMEs, which may utilise them directly by themselves, provided they are familiar with the use of ICT

applications.

The ICT tools have been co-designed along with several agri-food stakeholders in the context of the INNO-4-

AGRIFOOD Co-creation Workshop, with the aim to offer meaningful and easy to use functionalities, not

overlapping but complementary to the tools already at the disposal of agri-food innovation consultants.

Based on the stakeholders’ valuable feedback that explicitly suggested the simplification of the tools that

were initially conceptualised by INNO-4-AGRIFOOD, we opted to offer simple and meaningful ICT tools that

will be highly usable and time efficient, requiring elementary ICT skills and adding no complexity or

superfluous workload to the users.

In particular, we focused mainly on developing a search engine specialised to the agri-food ecosystem, that

will help innovation consultants find targeted information for providing their services in an easy and efficient

manner. The rationale behind this was that, in order to support innovation among SMEs operating in the

agri-food value chain, innovation consultants need to be acquainted with up-to-date knowledge concerning

the diverse agri-food industry, including among others the innovation activity and the evolution and trends

of the several sectors interacting within the agri-food ecosystem.

Indeed, staying updated with the industry activity is important for the innovation consultants to be able to

provide proper innovation services to agri-food SMEs. However, accessing up-to-date and targeted

information for the agri-food ecosystem requires a significant amount of time allocated for searching and

monitoring various specialised sources of information one by one. Data and information concerning the

broad agri-food industry are so widely scattered on the internet that it makes it difficult for innovation

consultants to keep track of all the new knowledge that becomes available day by day. Moreover, there is

no such thing as a single point of entry to online information for the agri-food industry.

In this respect, the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools (web and mobile apps) offer a specialized, platform-

independent search engine, that aims to assist agri-food innovation consultants, as well as SMEs, to find

targeted information concerning the agri-food ecosystem. The search engine probes simultaneously

multiple targeted sources of information available on the web, in order to retrieve results relevant to the

broad agri-food industry, excluding the information noise observed when using the common search

engines. Complementary functionalities facilitate frequent and personalized use of the tools, as well as easy

sharing of the identified information with colleagues and clients.

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The development of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools has been realised in 3 design and development stages,

incorporated in a 3-round approach for design, development, testing and validation, aiming to systematically

enhance the tools’ features and functionalities. These 3 rounds run in parallel with the development and

piloting of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD innovation support services, so as to ensure that both offerings remain

aligned and oriented towards the project’s objectives and the needs of its stakeholders.

The first two testing and validation stages of our iterative methodology yielded stakeholder feedback that

guided the further development, enhancement and fine-tuning of the search engine. A custom ranking

methodology was designed and implemented for presenting the search results in order of relevance, building

on widely used criteria and techniques. The ranking algorithm was fine-tuned and optimized during the 3rd

development stage. In addition, the interface of the web and mobile applications became available in 9

different languages, including the ones of the consortium. What’s more, the database of the relevant web

sources that the search engine considers was highly extended during the 2nd and 3rd development stages,

reaching up to 563 different domains, allowing in this way more specialised information to be retrieved

through the search tool, across 76 countries.

The current report has been produced at the end of the 3rd design and development stage, just before the

beginning of the final testing and validation, which, similar to the 2nd iteration, foresee the utilisation of the

ICT Tools by independent agri-food consultants and SMEs.

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Introduction

One of the main targets of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD1 project is to develop ICT tools that will support and

facilitate the delivery of the novel innovation support services, developed and offered in the context of the

project.

The current document constitutes the report describing the third and final version of the ICT tools

(consisting of web and mobile applications), as finalised by the end of the 3rd development stage of the

project. These ICT tools have been co-designed with agri-food stakeholders in the context of the INNO-4-

AGRIFOOD Co-creation Workshop2, tested during the 1st and 2nd deployment rounds and validated through

the respective digital Validation Workshops held at the end of each round.

In particular, the current report is structured in 7 distinct chapters as follows:

• Chapter 1 introduces the context in which the current report has been elaborated.

• Chapter 2 provides the objectives and rationale of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools, describing the

process followed for determining their design.

• Chapter 3 presents an overview of the web and mobile applications of the ICT tools, describing their

functional characteristics.

• Chapter 4 presents the foreseen administration and maintenance processes for the ICT tools, along

with the respective admin interfaces and tools.

• Chapter 5 describes the technical implementation of the ICT tools, providing information for their

technical design, the technologies used and the system architecture.

• Chapter 6 summarises the main feedback collected through the 1st and 2nd deployment rounds and

the respective adaptations implemented to address that feedback.

• Chapter 7 provides the conclusions of the report and outlines the next steps with respect to the 3rd

round of deployment and validation of the ICT tools.

Finally, the Annex of the report provides the updated list with the online information sources currently

utilised by the ICT tools.

1 www.inno4agrifood.eu 2 For more information on the outcomes of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD Co-creation Workshop with respect to the innovation support services and ICT tools of the project see the respective report titled “Outcomes of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD Co-creation Workshop: Innovation support services and ICT tools”, publicly available at the web portal of the project.

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Objectives and rationale

The INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools aim to assist and facilitate the delivery of the new INNO-4-AGRIFOOD

innovation support services for agri-food SMEs.

More specifically, the ICT tools have been designed with the objectives to:

• Provide meaningful functionalities that assist the delivery of innovation support services to agri-food

SMEs, built on modern, widely used technologies.

• Be platform-independent and complementary to the tools already at the disposal of agri-food

consultants, and especially of the Enterprise European Network (EEN), avoiding any overlaps.

• Be easily accessible and used, mainly by consultants but also directly by agri-food SMEs.

With the objectives of the ICT tools in mind, their functional characteristics have been co-created along with

various agri-food stakeholders that took part in the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD Co-creation Workshop, where a

prototype suite of 4 different tools was presented and discussed. The feedback received influenced

significantly the orientation of the tools.

Indeed, the prototype of the tools presented during the workshop gave the opportunity to innovation

consultants, especially of the EEN, to highlight the fact that they have already at their disposal a number of

sophisticated and powerful ICT platforms to support their services, thus adding one more complicated and

time consuming platform to their toolbox would not bring more value to them and therefore, they might be

reluctant to use it within their work routine. In this respect, developing functionalities that are already

covered by the existing platforms would lead to the new offering being underused and/or neglected.

Taking into serious consideration the critical points expressed by the participants of the workshop, the INNO-

4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools have been refined with the aim of bringing real value to the agri-food innovation

consultants, as well as to SMEs. In this respect, the project has not developed an additional ICT platform.

Instead, it has offered simple and meaningful tools that are highly usable and time efficient, requiring just

elementary ICT skills. Their simple design ensures that they support the delivery of the novel project’s

services for fostering collaborative innovation, in a time and effort effective way, without adding

unnecessary complexity and superfluous workload to the innovation consultants who use them.

In result and based upon the valuable insights collected from the agri-food stakeholders during and after the

co-creation workshop, it became evident that what was meaningful was to simplify the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD

tools and focus mainly on developing a search engine specialised to the agri-food ecosystem, that will help

innovation consultants find targeted information for providing their services in an easy and efficient manner.

The following sections of the current report present all the functional, as well as technical characteristics of

the third and final version of the search engine, as designed and enhanced throughout the project, according

to the whole feedback collected by stakeholders up to this stage.

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ICT tools overview

In order to support innovation among SMEs operating in the agri-food value chain, consultants need to be

acquainted with up-to-date knowledge concerning the diverse agri-food industry. This knowledge should

pertain, among others, to innovation activity, evolution and trends of the several sectors interacting within

the agri-food ecosystem. Staying up-to-date with the industry activity is important for the consultants to be

able to provide proper innovation support services to agri-food SMEs, such as the novel INNO-4-AGRIFOOD

innovation support services.

However, accessing up-to-date and targeted information for the agri-food ecosystem requires a significant

amount of time allocated for searching and monitoring various specialised sources of information one by

one. Data and information concerning the broad agri-food industry are so widely scattered on the internet

that it is difficult to keep track of all the new knowledge that becomes available day by day. Moreover, there

is no such thing as a single point of entry to online information for the agri-food industry.

In this respect, the main offer of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools is a specialized, platform-independent

search engine, that aims to assist agri-food consultants, as well as SMEs familiar with ICT applications, to find

targeted information concerning the agri-food ecosystem. The search engine probes simultaneously

multiple targeted sources of information available on the web, in order to retrieve results relevant to the

broad agri-food industry, excluding the information noise observed when using the common search

engines.

A dedicated database of relevant open web sources has been developed, such as innovation platforms,

forums, blogs, news portals, online databases etc., covering 76 countries (28 countries more than the second

version of the tools). Currently this database includes 563 different domains, about 196 domains more than

the second version of the ICT Tools. The database will continue to be maintained and expand during and

beyond the project’s duration, including new relevant sources of information, while excluding sources that

become outdated. Besides the search engine, complementary features have been integrated to the ICT tools,

in order to make their use more personalized and convenient, as well as to allow easy sharing of the identified

information with colleagues and clients.

The following sub-sections present in detail the ICT tools’ functionalities and describe how they can be used,

providing illustrations of the Graphical User Interface (GUI).

From now on the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT Tools will be also referred to as “Search Tool”. This title was

selected as being more easily marketable, self-explained and conceivable by the target groups. It is

currently used in both the web and mobile applications developed, as well as in all the relevant

communication tools and messages.

3.1 The wed application

Accessing the application

The end-users are able to access the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT Tools web application through the project’s

official web portal (Figure 1). To do so, they should first log-in to the portal, using a valid user account (Figure

2). The central registration form of the web portal allows new users to freely sign-up in order to access all

the project’s offerings.

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Figure 1: Integration with the project’s web portal

Figure 2: Log-in form of the project’s web portal

Searching for targeted information

Once the users are logged-in, the interface of the search tool allows them to apply search terms in the

available field, in order to retrieve information from multiple open web sources dedicated to the agri-food

ecosystem (Figure 3). Such sources may be websites of organisations, news portals, blogs, collaboration and

innovation platforms, forums, online databases etc. The search term may be just a keyword or a longer

phrase. The search engine will identify the main part of the keyword, e.g. the root, and will take into account

multiple possible endings or suffixes in order to provide relevant results.

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Figure 3: The Search Tool

By clicking on the “Search” button, the search results appear on the screen, in a form that includes the title

of the information, the link to the web source, as well as a small text to provide the user with some extra

information on what each result is about (Figure 4). Furthermore, the “Video Search” button allows the user

to search specifically for video content (e.g. tutorials, technology promo videos, etc.), thanks to the

integration of the YouTube platform.

Figure 4: The search results

During the 2nd development stage, a custom ranking algorithm was designed and implemented, in order to

enable the presentation of the search results in relevance order. This new feature facilitates the users’ need

to easily distinguish the most relevant and highly weighted results based on the search term, among the

hundreds of results that may appear on the screen.

The ranking algorithm that was developed is based on the most commonly used ranking criteria of

established search engines, which were identified through literature review. The identified ranking

techniques were adapted to the context and needs of the specific search tool, in order to produce a custom

methodology properly combining criteria such as:

• the position of the search term in the web source (e.g. in the title οf the webpage, in the domain

name, in the path name and in meta keywords)

• the Term Frequency (TF)1

1 TF shows how often the term appears in a field/result. The more often, the more relevant. A field containing five mentions of the same term is more likely to be relevant than a field containing just one mention. See also: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/relevance-intro.html

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In addition, during the 2nd development phase, the whole user interface of the Search Tool was translated to

another 9 languages besides English, which are currently available for the user to choose from. This feature

aims to assist users that are not proficient in English, neither accustomed to using apps in the English

language, to feel conformable using the applications in their own language (Figure 5).

Figure 5: Available languages of the Search Tool

Sharing of information

In order to facilitate easy sharing of the retrieved information, an additional functionality has been developed

that allows the users to send an email to an email address they wish, via the tools’ interface, incorporating

one or more selected search results (Figure 6). During the 2nd development stage, this functionality was

enhanced in order to allow the user to type also a text message to be included in the email body.

Figure 6: Sharing results via email

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Figure 7: Results shared through the Search Tool

A dedicated email account, namely [email protected], has been created and integrated with the ICT

tools, to be used for sending emails through the tools interface.

Keeping a search history

Furthermore, in order to facilitate frequent use of the tools, an additional feature has been developed that

allows users to maintain a selective search history by saving search terms (Figure 8).

Figure 8: Saving search history

The saved search terms can be reapplied in the future in order to look for updated results. The user can also

maintain the search history by deleting saved terms that are not of interest any more.

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Figure 9: Reapplying or deleting saved search terms

Flexible viewing

A Responsive Web Design (RWD) approach has been adopted for the development of the ICT tools, aiming

at providing optimal viewing and interaction experience, such as easy reading and navigation that requires

minimum resizing, panning, and scrolling. As a result, whenever the user switches from one device to

another, for instance from a desktop to a portable device, the webpage is automatically adapted to optimise

resolution, image size and scripting abilities (Figure 10).

3.2 The mobile application

In addition to the aforementioned web application, the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools also include dedicated

mobile apps for the two major mobile operating systems, namely Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. These

apps can be downloaded on portable devices through Google Play and App Store respectively, while the

relevant hyperlinks can also be found in the web application (Figure 11).

Figure 10: Responsive design

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Figure 11: Accessing the mobile apps through the web application

The mobile application approach aims at enabling users to easily access the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD Search tool

from their portable devices, facilitating “on-the-go” searching for specialised information for the agri-food

ecosystem. In terms of usability and functionalities, the mobile application has similar design to the web

application, in order to offer a uniform experience to the user.

Figure 12: The INNO-4-AGRIFOOD Search Tool mobile application

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ICT tools administration

4.1 Maintenance of the web sources database

Special attention was paid to ensure that the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools will be easily administered,

maintained and enhanced during the whole project’s duration and beyond. It is necessary that the long list

of web sources managed by the Search Tool remains up-to-date, including any new relevant source

identified. Moreover, any websites that stop working or become outdated should be omitted from the list,

in order to optimise the search results, as well as the technical performance.

In this respect, a control panel has been specially developed for the maintenance of the web sources

database. Through this panel the administrator can add new sources to the database, as well as edit or

remove any of the existing ones.

To access the control panel, the administrator should provide the username and unique password of a

registered administrator account in the login screen (Figure 13). By clicking the “Log in” button, and if the

given credentials are valid, the administrator can log-in to the control panel, or else an error message is

displayed.

Figure 13: The admin panel login screen

The administrator can add new web sources to the database by clicking the “Add site” option (Figure 14).

After clicking the “Add site” button the administrator can add web sources to the database by completing

the “URL” field and clicking on the “Add” button (Figure 15).

Figure 14: The admin panel

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Then, in order for the new web source to be indexed, the administrator should click on the “Options” link

next to the new source, and then on the “Index” button. Through the “Options” screen (Figure 16), the

administrator can also edit or even delete a listed web source, using the respective buttons. By clinking on

the “Edit” button, the edit screen appears (Figure 17), allowing the user to change the main URL, the depth

of the web source we wish to index, etc.

Whenever a web source is indexed or edited, the system automatically checks in real time the technical

compatibility of the source with the search engine and displays the results on the administrator’s screen. This

functionality was developed and enhanced during the 2nd and 3rd development stages respectively, to allow

the administrators to check in real time for any technical issues that may prevent the search engine from

accessing specific web sources.

To exit the control panel, the user can click the “Sign out” link on the top-left corner of the page.

Figure 17: The "Edit" screen

Figure 15: Adding new web sources in the database

Figure 16: The “Options” screen

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One of the main focus points of the 2nd and 3rd development stages was the extension of the web sources

database. A thorough investigation was conducted in order to identify more sources relevant to the European

agri-food sector, via extended desk research, exploitation of networks and communication with stakeholders.

Finally, we arrived at a database including 563 relevant web sources (see Annex), empowering in this way

the Search Tool to provide extensive, still focused, information to the users.

4.2 Monitoring of the ICT Tools usage

In order to facilitate the monitoring of the ICT Tools usage, a dedicated script was developed during the 3rd

development stage that allows the automatic production of an excel sheet containing all the up-to-date

relevant statistics about the system users and their activity on the search tool apps. The script runs just with

browsing to a dedicated URL through a web browser and automatically creates and downloads a populated

excel sheet to the administrator’s device e.g. computer. The monitored information includes among others

the user registration information (name, contact details, organisation name and type, etc.), the number of

sessions, the number of searches applied, as well as the total of emails sent through the system per user.

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System development

The INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT Tools have been built by means of popular contemporary web technologies,

leveraging open-source components and implementing necessary customizations. This chapter of the report

provides an overview of the system’s technical implementation.

5.1 System architecture

The system architecture consists of three main components, including a) the web crawler, b) the database

(DB) and c) the graphical user interface (GUI), as illustrated in the following figure.

Figure 18: System architecture

The web crawler

The web crawler is a software component that traverses the web to collect information. It visits public web

sites and records their content in order to create entries to be stored in the database. Entire web portals or

specific web pages can be selectively visited and indexed. The crawler is scheduled to run automatically at

regular intervals in order to gather new content from the listed web sources, whereas it can also run manually

through the admin panel whenever the administrator wishes.

The database

The database stores a copy of the content of each web page accessed by the web crawler. This database is

where the user actually searches in. Every time the user applies a search through the search interface, it is

the database content that is parsed to identify matching information, rather than searching real-time in each

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of the listed web sources. This implementation strategy was particularly selected for optimizing the system’s

performance, while minimizing the response time, which significantly improves the user experience.

The graphical user interface

The search interface allows the user to communicate with the database and search through its content. Users

can search for any information applying queries with keywords or phrases. Once the matching information

is identified in the database, the search results are presented to the user through the interface, after being

weighted and ranked via the custom ranking algorithm.

5.2 Implementation

The system development is based on a set of techniques including HTML5, CS3, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and

Ajax technologies.

The web crawler is based on an open-source PHP library that is suitable for indexing, analyzing and saving

data that are crawled from the web. The functions of the library were enriched with custom code to meet

specific requirements of the project. As the crawler visits the pre-defined websites, it identifies all

the hyperlinks and visits the respective HTML pages as well. The crawler indexes the Document Object

Model (DOM) of a website and saves all of its content in the MySQL Database. The crawler updates the

content of the database at regular intervals, thus any change on the content of the listed websites is

captured.

The end users utilize an HTML/JavaScript form where they type keywords and get all the matching results.

Ionic Framework has been used to develop the search form. Ionic is a complete open-source SDK for

developing modern mobile applications. Built on top of AngularJS, Ionic provides tools and services for

developing hybrid mobile applications using web technologies (HTML5, CSS). AngularJS is a JavaScript

framework used to provide the application structure, while Ionic itself focuses on the user interface.

When the end user searches for a keyword, the PHP search engine utilizes the content that is stored in the

database instead of searching real-time in the listed web sources. Thus, the response time of the system is

very short, which is very important for the user experience.

The PHP search engine uses a stemming algorithm for the search term. Stemming is a process of linguistic

normalization, in which the variant forms of a word are reduced to a common form. The stemming algorithm

transforms each word to its basic root or stem (e.g. ‘walking’ to ‘walk’) so that variations on a word (‘walks’,

‘walked’, ‘walking’) are considered equivalent for searching. These stems are used in each search query

rather than the original words, which generally produces more relevant search results.

Once the matching results have been identified by the PHP engine, the ranking algorithm designed and

developed during the 2nd development stage is applied, in order to calculate weights for each result based

on specific relevance components, namely the position of the search term in the result and the Term

Frequency. The ranking algorithm has been implemented in PHP and the ranked results are presented to the

user by means of an AngularJS function.

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Summarising main feedback points and corrective actions

The feedback collected through the first two deployment rounds of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD services and tools

was analysed in detail after each round, in order to design necessary adaptations with the aim to fulfil as

much as possible the needs of agri-food consultants and SMEs1. The main feedback collection means were

the Satisfaction Survey accessible through the Search Tool’s interface and the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD Validation

Workshops held by the end of each round, besides ad-hoc feedback. In the tables below we summarise the

main points of the collected feedback, along with the respective adaptations designed and developed

through the 2nd and 3rd development stages.

Table 1: Summary of feedback and main adaptations after the 1st deployment round

Feedback from 1st deployment round Respective actions in the 2nd design & development stage

Improve searchability bringing more relevant results to the surface.

A thorough research of widely used results ranking

techniques was conducted, to come up with a proper list of

relevance criteria and an appropriate method to combine

these criteria to form an algorithm that calculates relevance

of each one of the search results. This custom algorithm is

used to present the most relevant results first, so that the

user can easily distinguish them among the hundreds of

results that may be identified by the search engine.

In addition, the database of relevant web sources that fuels

the search engine was greatly enriched with more sources

related to the agri-food ecosystem, enhancing in this way

the quantity and quality of information retrieved through

the Search Tool.

Enhance the availability of more nationally-focused information.

A thorough investigation was carried out to enhance the

database of relevant web sources, especially by adding

more sources at national level. By the end of the 2nd

development stage, the database included web sources

from 48 different countries.

Introduce more language options for their interface.

Besides English, the interface of the ICT Tools was translated

to another 9 different languages, available in both the web

and mobile applications.

1 Detailed information about the feedback collected from the use of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools can be found in the report “D4.4: Service Deployment and Validation Report – First round” delivered in June 2017 and “D4.6: Service Deployment and Validation Report – Second round” delivered in December 2017.

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Table 2: Summary of feedback and main adaptations after the 2nd deployment round

Feedback from 2nd deployment round Respective actions in the 3rd design & development stage

Further improve the perceived relevance of the search results.

The technical design of the Search Tool was reconsidered

and changed to a great extent during the 3rd development

stage, in order to come up with a solution that greatly

improves the search results. The changes affected among

others the way the web sources are indexed in the

database, resulting in a design that minimises information

noise and the number of results that seem irrelevant.

In addition, an optimisation process was applied on the

ranking algorithm, so as to improve and fine-tune the

ranking of the results based on their relevance. This process

led to reconsideration of the ranking criteria and their

combination, recalculation of the respective weights, as

well as to several bug fixes.

The several adaptations applied are expected to

significantly improve the users’ perceived relevance of the

search results.

Further enrich the information sources to cover specific areas that emerged during the deployment.

New investigation was carried out to further enlarge the

database of relevant web sources with more websites, both

internationally and nationally focused. Emphasis was given

to covering specific areas of interest that arose during the

deployment, such as pomiculture, scrub trees, goat cheese,

traceability, eggshells, poultry residues, frozen food, etc.

Currently, the database includes 563 web sources from 76

different countries.

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Conclusions and Next Steps

The INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools have been developed with a view to assisting agri-food innovation

consultants to provide innovation support services to SMEs, and especially the novel INNO-4-AGRIFOOD

innovation support services.

The custom search engine that has been developed aims to facilitate easy and efficient search of information

concerning the agri-food industry. It is expected to assist innovation consultants to get acquainted with up-

to-date information regarding the activity of the agri-food ecosystem and of its several sectors where their

clients operate. This way, innovation consultants will be supported to access the background information

that is needed for providing targeted and personalized services to enhance innovation among agri-food

SMEs.

The development of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD ICT tools has been realised in 3 development stages, following a

methodological approach that unfolds in 3 iterations, each one including design, development, testing and

validation stages that aim to further enhance the tools’ features and functionalities. These 3 iterations have

run in parallel with the development and piloting of the INNO-4-AGRIFOOD innovation support services, so

as to ensure that both project offerings remain aligned and oriented towards the project’s objectives.

The first two full iterations have been successfully completed, including the deployment of the ICT tools by

consultants who are part of the consortium (1st iteration), as well as by independent innovation consultants

and agri-food SMEs themselves (2nd iteration). The feedback collected during both iterations provided useful

insights for the improvement of the Search Tool, towards better covering the needs of the potential users,

namely agri-food consultants and SMEs.

The 3rd iteration is currently in progress, with the development stage finalised, highly focusing on addressing

the feedback received through the 2nd deployment stage. Specifically, the technical re-design of the search

engine, the optimisation of the results ranking algorithm and the further extension of the web-sources

database that were achieved are expected to significantly improve the Search Tool’s usability and the

perceived relevance of the search results.

The next step of this 3rd iteration is the deployment and testing of the final version of the ICT tools by

independent agri-food consultants, as well as agri-food SMEs, attracted through various targeted

dissemination and communication activities of the project. The use of the tools will continue to be closely

monitored to systematically collect feedback from the users, so as to identify potential new features, as well

as areas of further improvement beyond the project’s duration to facilitate their uptake. The iteration will

close with the 3rd Validation Workshop, during which the feedback received over the final piloting stage will

be analysed and discussed.

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Annex

The web sources that currently fuel the INNO-4-AGFRIFOOD ICT tools are presented in the following table.

No Name URL Country

1

ACCA - Assiciacio

Catalana de Ciencies de

L'Alimentacio

http://cienciesambientals.cat Spain

2 Access4SMEs www.access4smes.eu International

3 Acta Horticulturae www.actahort.org International

4 ACTA/CL www.actacl.es Spain

5 ACTAE www.actae.elkarteak.net Spain

6 ADAS www.adas.uk United Kingdom

7 AECOM www.aecom.com/uk/markets/industrial/agri

culture-food-beverage/ United Kingdom

8 Aerofarms http://aerofarms.com International

9 AFBI www.afbini.gov.uk Ireland

10 AFCC https://agrifoodchaincoalition.eu Europe

11 AgFunder news https://agfundernews.com International

12 Agrár Unió www.agrarunio.hu Hungary

13 Agrárélet www.agrarelet.hu Hungary

14 Agrarheute www.agrarheute.com Germany

15 Agrármarketing Centrum www.amc.hu Hungary

16 Agrarplattform www.agrarplattform.de Germany

17 Agrárszektor www.agrarszektor.hu Hungary

18 Agrarwissenschaften www.agrarwissenschaften.de Germany

19 Agri Food Robotics

Workshops https://agrifoodroboticsworkshop.com International

20 Agri For Valor www.agriforvalor.eu/pages/home Hungary

21 AGRI Holland www.agriholland.nl Netherlands

22 Agri Land www.agriland.ie Ireland

23 Agri Match www.agrimatch.nl Nertherlands

24 Agriaffaires www.agriaffaires.co.uk United Kingdom

25 Agribotix https://agribotix.com International

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26 Agricoltura

Finanziamenti

www.agricolturafinanziamenti.com/chi-

siamo/ Italy

27 Agricultural Information

Worldwide http://journals.sfu.ca/iaald/index.php/aginfo International

28 Agricultural Institute of

Slovenia www.kis.si Slovenia

29 Agricultural marketing

resource centre www.agmrc.org USA

30 Agricultural Research &

Technology Journal https://juniperpublishers.com/artoaj/ US

31 Agricultural Research

and Development www.cirad.fr France

32 Agriculture and Agri-

Food Canada

www.agr.gc.ca/eng/home/?id=13956908257

41 Canada

33

Agriculture

Transportation Coalition

(AgTC)

https://agtrans.org USA

34 Agri-EPI Centre www.agri-epicentre.com United Kingdom

35 AgriFamring www.agrifarming.in India

36 AgriFood www.agrifoodatp.ac.uk United Kingdom

37 Agrifood Economic

Centre www.agrifood.se Sweden

38 Agri-Food QUEST www.agrifoodquest.com Ireland

39 AgriFood Technology www.agrifood.com.au Australia

40 AgriFoodTech Platform www.agrifoodtechplatform.nl Netherlands

41 Agriland www.agriland.ie/farming-

news/category/agri-business/ Ireland

42 Agrimetrics www.agrimetrics.co.uk United Kingdom

43 Agrimetrics www.agrimetrics.co.uk United Kingdom

44 Agrinatura http://agrinatura-eu.eu Europe

45 Agriplan www.agriplan.nl Netherlands

46 AGRIS http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/home International

47 Agris Mundus www.agrismundus.eu Europe

48 Agriseb www.agriseb.com Romania

49 AgriSpin http://agrispin.eu Europe

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50 Agritech www.agritechgroup.com Africa

51 AgriTour ireland www.agritours.ie Ireland

52 AgriVIVO www.agrivivo.net International

53 AgriVue https://agrivue.co.uk United Kingdom

54 Agro & Food www.agro-food.nl Netherlands

55 Agro Business Park www.agropark.dk Denmark

56 Agro Generation www.agrogeneration.com Ukraine

57 AGRO IT www.agroit.eu International

58 Agroart www.agroart.co.rs Russia

59 Agro-Bio Cluster http://agrobiocluster.pl/?lang=en Poland

60 Agrofórum http://agroforum.hu Hungary

61 Agrofresh www.agrofresh.com USA

62 Agro-Hall www.agrohall.fr France

63 Agroinfo tel http://agroinfotel.net Bosnia

64 Agroinform www.agroinform.hu Hungary

65 AGROIT http://agroit.hu/en/ International

66 Agroklub Agricultural

portal www.agroklub.com

Croatia and SEE

region

67 Agroknow www.agroknow.com/agroknow/ International

68 Agromedia www.agromedia.rs Serbia

69 AgroNapló www.agronaplo.hu Hungary

70 Agronomag http://agronomag.com International

71 AgroNotizie https://agronotizie.imagelinenetwork.com Italy

72 AgroSmart www.agrosmart.net Serbia

73 Agrotrend www.agrotrend.hu Hungary

74 Agtech_Techcrunch https://techcrunch.com/tag/agtech/ International

75 AHDB http://pork.ahdb.org.uk United Kingdom

76 AHDB Beef & Lamb http://beefandlamb.ahdb.org.uk United Kingdom

77 AIMS http://aims.fao.org International

78

AITA - Associazione

Italiana de Tecnologia

Alimentare

www.aita-nazionale.it Italy

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79 Al-Balqa' Applied

University www.bau.edu.jo Jordan

80 ALCYTA www.alcyta.com Spain

81 Alliance for food and

farming www.foodandfarming.info International

82 Alma Mater Studiorum -

Università di Bologna www.distal.unibo.it Italy

83 Almstead www.almstead.com USA

84 ALTAGA www.altaga.org Spain

85 Anglia Farmers Limited www.angliafarmers.co.uk United Kingdom

86 Animal Husbandry

association http://animalhusbandryassoc.com International

87 Animal smart http://animalsmart.org International

88 Animal task force (ATF) www.animaltaskforce.eu Europe

89 Ankara University www.food.ege.edu.tr Turkey

90 App4inno http://network.app4inno.eu Europe

91 Aquaculture Magazine www.aquaculturemag.com US

92 Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki

www.food-

science.agro.auth.gr/index_EN.html Greece

93 Arlabion www.arlabion.com United Kingdom

94 Aroma Innovation Hub

Patras www.aromahub.gr Greece

95 Arysta LifeScience www.arystalifescience.com International

96 Ask Valerie www.ask-valerie.eu/#/en_EN/search Europe

97 Association for Vertical

Farming https://vertical-farming.net International

98

Association of Poultry

Processors and Poultry

Trade in the EU countries

www.avec-poultry.eu Europe

99

Association of

Technology Engineers of

Republic of Srpska

www.tehnolozirs.org Bosnia and

Herzegovina

100 Association Valley

Nemunas www.slenis-nemunas.lt/en/ Lithuania

101 ASTA www.asta.etat.lu Luxembourg

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102 ATN www.agritradenews.co.uk United Kingdom

103 AUA tech Transfer

project www.techtransfer.aua.gr/en/default.aspx Greece

104 AVA www.ava.gov.sg/tools-and-resources Singapore

105 AVEVE www.aveve.be/language/en-

US/Engels/Home Netherlands

106 B&C Farming Ltd www.bcfarming.co.uk United Kingdom

107 BackYardChickens www.backyardchickens.com International

108 Bartholomews www.bartholomews.co.uk United Kingdom

109 BASF https://agriculture.basf.com/en.html Germany

110

BeConnections (connect

with other Businesses

B2B community)

https://beconnections.com International

111 Beef2Live http://beef2live.com International

112 beeTime https://beetime.eu Europe

113

BENAKI

PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL

INSTITUTE

http://en.bpi.gr Greece

114 B-FoST keyevent.org Skopje

115 Bio Horizon www.ncp-biohorizon.net Europe

116 Biocomes

www.biocomes.eu/partner/national-

institute-agricultural-food-research-

technology-inia/

Spain

117 BIOSELENA - Foundation

of organic agriculture www.bioselena.com/en/ Bulgaria

118 BioSense http://biosens.rs/?page_id=6597&lang=en Serbia

119 Blog Crowdfooding http://blog.crowdfooding.co.uk Europe

120 Blue and green

tomorrow https://blueandgreentomorrow.com International

121 Braukaiser http://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php/Brauk

aiser.com Germany

122 Brewers association www.brewersassociation.org USA

123 British egg product

association www.bepa.org.uk United Kingdom

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124 British Livestock

Genetics britishlivestockgenetics.co.uk United Kingdom

125 CAFIA www.szpi.gov.cz/en/default.aspx Czech Republic

126 California Native Plant

Society http://calscape.org USA

127 Cape Peninsula

University of Technology

www.cput.ac.za/academic/faculties/applieds

ciences/research/ats South Africa

128 CAPSELLA www.capsella.eu Europe

129 CCYTA www.ccyta.es Spain

130 CEJA www.ceja.eu Europe

131 CELCAA www.celcaa.eu/en Belgium

132 CEMA http://cema-agri.org Belgium

133

Centre of Innovation

Excellence in Livestock

(CIEL)

www.cielivestock.co.uk United Kingdom

134 CHAFEA https://ec.europa.eu/chafea/agri/ International

135 CHAP http://chap-solutions.co.uk United Kingdom

136 Chicken farmers www.chickenfarmers.ca Canada

137 Cofco International www.cofcointernational.com International

138 CONNECT4ACTION www.connect4action.eu Europe

139 Copa Cogeca www.copa-cogeca.be Belgium

140 Cranfield University www.cranfield.ac.uk/centres/soil-and-

agrifood-institute United Kingdom

141 Cyprus food&drinks www.cyprusfoodndrinks.com Cyprus

142 Czech Academy of

Agricultural Sciences www.cazv.cz/en/ Czech Republic

143 Dairy foods www.dairyfoods.com USA

144 Dairy Innovation Summit

2018 www.arena-international.com/dairy Netherlands

145 Dairy reporter www.dairyreporter.com International

146 Dairy Reporter www.dairyreporter.com/ International

147 Danish Agriculture &

Food Council www.agricultureandfood.dk Denmark

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148 Danish Centre For Food

And Agriculture http://dca.au.dk/en/ Denmark

149

De Federatie

Nederlandse

Levensmiddelen

Industrie

www.fnli.nl Netherlands

150

Department of

Agricultural,

Environment & Rural

Affairs

www.daera-ni.gov.uk Ireland

151

Deutsche

Landwirtschafts-

Gesellschaft – German

Agricultural Society

www.dlg.org Germany

152 Deutscher

Bauernverband www.bauernverband.de/information-english Germany

153 Diatomic https://diatomic.eu/index.php/push-

experiments/agrifood/ International

154 Dublin Institute of

Technology www.dit.ie Ireland

155 Dunarea de Jos

University www.sia.ugal.ro Romania

156 Dutch food innovations www.dutchfoodinnovations.com Netherlands

157 eAgriculture www.e-agriculture.org International

158 Easyexports www.easyexports.eu Europe

159 Eat right www.eatright.org International

160 ECAF www.ecaf.org Europe

161 EcoShell www.ecoshell-project.eu/en/ Europe

162 EFFoST www.effost.org Netherlands

163 Ege University, Faculty of

Agriculture www.agr.ege.edu.tr/en/ Turkey

164 Eggnovo www.eggnovo.com Europe

165 Eggshell www.eggshell.com.hk/en/ HongKong

166 EIP-AGRI www.ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/ Europe

167 EIP-AGRI Hungary https://eip.fm.gov.hu Hungary

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168 Eko-uprawy.pl

www.eko-uprawy.pl/rolnictwo/rolnictwo-

nieekologiczne/704-sektor-rolno-spozywczy-

a-rosyjskie-embargo

Poland

169 Elsevier Food Science www.elsevier.com/life-sciences/food-science International

170 Elsoms www.elsoms.com United Kingdom

171 Enterprise Europe

Network Hellas www.enterprise-hellas.gr Greece

172 Enterprise Greece www.enterprisegreece.gov.gr/en/home Greek

173 ePURE http://epure.org Belgium

174 ESTA http://esta.euroseeds.eu Belgium

175 Estonian dairy www.piimaliit.ee/en/ Estonia

176 ETP Food for Life http://etp.fooddrinkeurope.eu Europe

177 EU Pig www.eupig.eu/partners/agri-food-and-

biosciences-institute Europe

178 EU Pig innovation group www.eupig.eu Germany

179 eu40 www.eu40.eu/smart-farming/ Europe

180 EUFIC www.eufic.org Belgium

181 Euler Hermes

www.eulerhermes.com/economic-

research/sector-risks/Global-Agrifood-

Report/Pages/default.aspx

France

182 Euractiv www.euractiv.com/sections/agriculture-

food/ Belgium

183 EUREKA www.eurekanetwork.org/content/euroagri-

foodchain-2 Europe

184 Eurodairy https://eurodairy.eu Europe

185 European animal health

and welfare research www.scar-cwg-ahw.org/ Europe

186

European Association of

Veterinary Laboratory

Diagnosticians

www.eavld.org/eavld/ Europe

187 European Beer Guide www.europeanbeerguide.net Europe

188 European Crop

Protection www.ecpa.eu Belgium

189 European Egg Processors

Association www.eepa.info Europe

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190 European Federation of

City Farms www.cityfarms.org Europe

191 European Forum of Farm

Animal Breeders www.effab.info Europe

192

European General

Galvanizers Association

(EGGA)

www.egga.com Europe

193 European Investment

Bank

www.eib.org/projects/sectors/agriculture/in

dex.htm Europe

194 European poultry, the

power of quality www.european-quality-poultry.eu Europe

195 European Seed

Association www.euroseeds.eu Belgium

196 European Timber Trade

Federation www.ettf.info Europe

197 Ever Fresh http://everfreshfruit.com USA

198 Exports Manager https://exportsmanager.com International

199 F&A Next www.fanext.nl Netherlands

200 F&W https://fwforestry.net International

201 Fantastic farms https://small-farm-permaculture-and-

sustainable-living.com Australia

202 FAO www.fao.org/home/en/ International

203 Farm Business

Innovation www.farmbusinessshow.co.uk United Kingdom

204 FARMAF www.farmaf.org/en/ Europe

205 FarmBörse (online

platform) http://farmboerse.com Germany

206 Farmers weekly www.fwi.co.uk United Kingdom

207 Farmi www.farmi.ee Estonia

208 Farming UK www.farminguk.com United Kingdom

209 Farmit.hu www.farmit.hu Hungary

210 FBR - Food & Biobased

Research www.fbr.wur.nl Netherlands

211 Federal Ministry of Food

and Agriculture

www.bmel.de/EN/Homepage/homepage_no

de.html Germany

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212 Feed The Future www.feedthefuture.gov US

213 FeedStuffs www.feedstuffs.com USA

214 FERA www.fera.co.uk/sustainable-agri-food-

systems United Kingdom

215 FEVIA www.fevia.be Belgium

216 FG Insight www.fginsight.com/news United Kingdom

217 Finnish Organic Food

Association Pro Luomu http://proluomu.fi/english/ Finland

218 Fish 2.0 www.fish20.org International

219 Fisheries innovation

Scotland www.fiscot.org Scotland

220 Fishing info http://fishinginfo.co.uk/index.html United Kingdom

221 Fispace www.fispace.eu Germany

222 FIWARE Accelerators

Programme www.fiware.org Europe

223 Flower council holland www.flowercouncil.co.uk United Kingdom

224 Flowerweb www.flowerweb.com Netherlands

225 Food & Beverages from

France

www.franceagroalimentaire.com/en/themati

que/agri-food-sector/ France

226 Food & Drink Technology www.foodanddrinktechnology.com United Kingdom

227 Food and Tech Connect https://foodtechconnect.com International

228 Food Drink Europe www.fooddrinkeurope.eu International

229 Food Ecosystem

Accelerator http://food.innoleaps.com Netherlands

230 Food Insight www.foodinsight.org International

231 Food Inspiration www.foodinspiration.com Netherlands

232 Food Institute Skopje www.fvm.ukim.edu.mk Skopje

233 Food market maker https://foodmarketmaker.com USA

234 Food Nexus www.foodnexus.eu Europe

235 Food Quality News www.foodqualitynews.com Europe

236 Food Research

Collaboration http://foodresearch.org.uk United Kingdom

237 Food Research Institute

Albania www.agrowebcee.net/awal/research-centres Albania

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238 Food Science &

Technology www.fstjournal.org/features/n8-agrifood United Kingdom

239 Food Security Cluster http://foodsecuritycluster.net International

240 Food Systems Academy www.foodsystemsacademy.org.uk United Kingdom

241 Food Tech Holland www.foodtechholland.com Netherlands

242 Food Technology &

Biotechnology www.ftb.com.hr Croatia

243 Food Technology

Corporation www.foodtechcorp.com US

244 Food Valley www.foodvalley.nl Netherlands

245 Food&Feed Research www.fins.uns.ac.rs/e-journal/index.php International

246 Food+I cluster http://clusterfoodmasi.es/en/ Spain

247 Foodnavigator www.foodnavigator.com International

248 FOODstars http://foodstars.uns.ac.rs Serbia

249 FoodValley NL www.foodvalley.nl/eng/ Netherlands

250 Forest trends www.forest-trends.org USA

251 Fractals accelerator www.fractals-fp7.com Europe

252 French Food in the US http://frenchfoodintheus.org/category/frenc

h-agrifood-industry US

253 Frome Livestock www.fromelivestock.com United Kingdom

254 Frorinews www.florinews.com Kenya

255 Fruit today http://fruittoday.com Spain

256 Fun Food www.funfood.site International

257 Future beef https://futurebeef.com.au Australia

258 Future Food http://futurefood.network Italy

259 Game Changers in

Agriculture http://oaftgamechangers.ca Canada

260 GATES www.gates-game.eu International

261 GCGP www.gcgp.co.uk/agri-tech-grants/ United Kingdom

262 GEFFoST www.gdl-ev.org/links/international International

263 Germains Seed

Technology https://germains.com International

264 GFAR www.gfar.net/ Cyprus

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265 GFIA Europe http://gfiaeurope.com Netherlands

266 GGS Structures http://ggs-greenhouse.com USA

267 Ghent University www.hogent.be Belgium

268 Girona fruits http://gironafruits.com Spain

269 Global Forum for Food

and Agriculture (GFFA) www.gffa-berlin.de/en/ International

270

Global Open Data for

Agriculture and Nutrition

(GODAN)

www.godan.info International

271 GMV www.dutchfoodsystems.com Netherlands

272 Government of

Netherlands

www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/landbou

w-en-tuinbouw Netherlands

273 Grahamandgreen www.grahamandgreen.co.uk United Kingdom

274 Greek Ministry of Rural

Development www.minagric.gr/index.php/en/ Greece

275 Green Career Consult www.greencareerconsult.nl Netherlands

276 GreeNet http://greenet.ea.gr Greece

277

Grimsby Institute of

Further & Higher

Education (GIFHE)

www.grimsby.ac.uk/frperc.php United Kingdom

278 Grupo Siro www.gruposiro.com/en/company/agri-food-

chain Spain

279 Gulf of Maine Research

Institute (GMRI) www.gmri.org International

280 H Faming www.h-farm.com/en#no-back International

281 Happy cow www.happycow.net USA

282 HAS University www.hasdenbosch.nl Netherlands

283 Haszon: Agrár www.haszonagrar.hu Hungary

284 Healthy Diet for a

Healthy Life (JPI HDHL) www.zonmw.nl Netherlands

285 Hellenic Food Authority www.efet.gr Greece

286 Hellenic Timber

Association http://htca.gr Greece

287 Hhungexpoexhibition http://agromashexpo.hu/en Hungary

288 HighTech Europe www.foodtech-portal.eu Europe

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289 Hírstart mezőgazdaság www.hirstart.hu/fk/mezogazdasag?autorefre

shed=1 Hungary

290 HomeBrewTalk www.homebrewtalk.com International

291 Horse and hound www.horseandhound.co.uk United Kingdom

292 Horses and horse

information www.horses-and-horse-information.com International

293 Horticom www.horticom.com Spain

294 Horticulture next

generation. www.horticulture-nextgeneration.com.au Australia

295 HortTechnology http://horttech.ashspublications.org USA

296 Hudson Valley Farm Hub http://hvfarmhub.org USA

297 Hutchinsons www.hlhltd.co.uk United Kingdom

298

I.Beritashvili Center of

Experimental

Biomedicine

www.lifescience.org.ge/ge/ Georgia

299 ICI Business www.icibusiness.com/expertise-europe.html International

300 ICRISAT www.icrisat.org International

301 ICT-agri www.ict-agri.eu Europe

302 IEG VU, Business

Intelligence

https://iegvu.agribusinessintelligence.inform

a.com United Kingdom

303 IFIS https://foodinfo.ifis.org/fsta United Kingdom

304 ifoam www.ifoam-eu.org Europe

305 IFST www.gidadernegi.org/EN Europe

306 IFT www.ift.org US

307 IMP3prove www.improve-innovation.eu Europe

308 Info horse www.infohorse.com USA

309 Info horse www.infohorse.com International

310 Innomics www.innomics.nl Netherlands

311 InnovAgri AUA http://innovinagri.aua.gr Greece

312 Innovate UK Knowledge

Transfer Network www.ktn-uk.co.uk/interests/agri-food United Kingdom

313

Innovathens (Hub of

Innovation &

Entrepreneurship of

www.innovathens.gr/innovathens-en-2/ Greek

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Technopolis City of

Athens

314

Innovation for

Sustainable Sheep and

Goat Production in

Europe (iSAGE)

www.isage.eu Europe

315 Innovative UK http://af.ktnlandscapes.com United Kingdom

316 InnovativeSteunpunt www.innovatiesteunpunt.be/en Belgium

317 Inosens http://inosens.rs Serbia

318 INOVISA http://inovisa.pt/en/ Portugal

319 Institucio Cerca http://cerca.cat/en/c/institute-of-agrifood-

research-and-technology/ Spain

320 Institute of Agricultural

and Food Economics www.ierigz.waw.pl/aktualnosci Poland

321 Institute of Agricultural

Sciences http://ige.gr/index.php/en/ Greek

322

Institute of Meat

Hygiene and Technology,

Ministry of Education,

Science and

Technological

Development

www.researchgate.net/profile/ivan_nastasije

vic/publicatons Serbia

323 International Dairy food

assocation www.idfa.org International

324

International Food And

Agribusiness

Management

Association

www.ifama.org International

325 International trade

centre

www.intracen.org/itc/sectors/food-and-agri-

business/ International

326 International water

management institute www.iwmi.cgiar.org International

327 Interpoma 2018 www.fierabolzano.it/interpoma/en/ Italy

328 Interreg www.interreg-balkanmed.eu International

329 intertek www.intertek.com/agriculture/precision-

farming/

International

330 INTRA www.irta.cat Spain

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331 Invest in Agrifood www.invest-in-portugal.info Portugal

332 Invest In Holland https://investinholland.com/industries/agrifo

od/ Netherlands

333 Invest In Turkey www.invest.gov.tr/en-

US/sectors/Pages/Agriculture.aspx Turkey

334 Investissement Quebec www.investquebec.com/international/en/ind

ustries/agri-food.html

International

335 IoF 2020 www.iof2020.eu International

336 IPF www.ipf-uk.com United Kingdom

337 IPRI http://irri.org International

338 IRIS Interface for Rural

Information Services https://iris.gov.gr Greek

339 Irish Farmers'

Association www.ifa.ie Ireland

340 Irish food board www.bordbia.ie/Pages/Default.aspx Ireland

341 Irrigation New Zeanland http://irrigationnz.co.nz New Zealand

342 ISF www.worldseed.org International

343 ISSS http://seedscisoc.org International

344 ISTA International Seed

Analysis Certificates. www.seedtest.org International

345 IWYP http://iwyp.org International

346 Jobs in Horticulture www.hortjobs.com International

347 Johns Hopkins Centre of

Livable Future www.foodsystemprimer.org US

348 Jordbruks verket

www.jordbruksverket.se/swedishboardofagri

culture.4.6621c2fb1231eb917e680002462.ht

ml

Sweden

349 Journal of Livestock

Science http://livestockscience.in International

350 KATANA http://katanaproject.eu International

351 Kaunas University www.ktu.lt/en/ Lithuania

352 KEKI - Central Food

Research Institute www.keki.hu Hungary

353 Kitekintő: mezőgazdaság http://kitekinto.hu/cimke/mezogazdasag/ Hungary

354 KTN http://aflandscape.ktn-uk.org United Kingdom

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355 Ktu Food Institure http://2017.ktu.edu/en/food-institute International

356 La Moncloa www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/espana/spai

ntoday2015/agriculture/

Spain

357 LaCoop

http://web.lacoop.coop/en/innovation-

poultry-and-egg-production-la-coop-

launches-aviscan

Canada

358 Latvia University of

Agriculture www.llu.lv/en Latvia

359 Leaf www.leafuk.org/leaf/home.eb Europe

360 Lexicon of Food www.lexiconoffood.com International

361

Lithouanian research

centre for agriculture

and forestry

www.lammc.lt/en/ Lithuania

362 Livestock Forum www.livestockforum.com/en/home#undefin

ed Spain

363

Livestock Research

Innovation Corporation

(LRIC)

www.livestockresearch.ca Canada

364 Livestock science www.livestockscience.com International

365 Luke www.luke.fi/en/ Finland

366 MagyarMezőgazdaság http://magyarmezogazdasag.hu Hungary

367 Malta Sunripe www.maltasunripe.com/index.html Malta

368 Maryland Small

Ruminant Page www.sheepandgoat.com USA

369

METE Hungarian

Association of Food

Science and Technology

www.mete.hu Hungary

370 Ministry for Agriculture www.minrol.gov.pl/Informacje-

branzowe/Katalog-instytucji Polish

371

Ministry of agriculture,

food & forestry, Republic

of Bulgaria

www.mzh.government.bg/mzh/en/Home.asp

x Bulgaria

372 Ministry of Agriculture,

Forestry & Food www.mkgp.gov.si/en/ Slovenia

373 Ministry of agriculture,

Republic of Croatia www.mps.hr Croatia

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374 Ministry of Agriculture,

Republic of Latvia www.zm.gov.lv/en/ Latvia

375

Ministry of Agriculture,

Vitivulture & Consumer

Protection

www.ma.public.lu Luxembourg

376 Ministry of Environment

& Energy www.ypeka.gr Greece

377 Monsanto www.monsanto-ag.co.uk United Kingdom

378 MUSE-Tech www.musetech.eu Europe

379 My farm life https://myfarmlife.com International

380 MyToolBox www.mytoolbox.eu International

381 N8 AgriFood http://n8agrifood.ac.uk United Kingdom

382 Nafic https://nafic.co.uk United Kingdom

383 National Agricultural &

Food Centre www.nppc.sk/index.php/en/ Slovakia

384 National Agricultural

Chamber www.nak.hu Hungary

385

National Agricultural

Fair, professional day

19/09/2017

www.omekszakmainap.hu Hungary

386

National Agriculture and

Food Exhibition Fair 20-

24/09/2017

http://en.omek2017.hu Hungary

387

National Institute for

Agriculture Research in

Tunis (IRESA)

www.iresa.agrinet.tn Tunisia

388 National network of

agricultural areas http://ksow.pl Polish

389

National University of

Food Technologies

(NUFT)

www.nuft.in.ua Ukraine

390 National University of

Technologies www.nuft.in.ua/en/index Ukraine

391 Netherlands Agro, Food

and Technology Centre www.naftc.nl Netherlands

392 Netherlands Timber

Trade Association www.vvnh.nl Netherlands

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393

Network for innovation

in agriculture and in

agricultural areas

www.cdr.gov.pl/sir Polish

394 New agriculturist www.new-ag.info International

395 Newcastle University www.ncl.ac.uk/afrd United Kingdom

396 NewFood www.newfoodmagazine.com International

397 Next Nature Network www.nextnature.net/themes/food-

technology/ Netherlands

398 NIAB www.niab.com United Kingdom

399 NICHE www.interregeurope.eu/niche/ International

400 NINESIGMA www.ninesights.ninesigma.com/projects International

401 NIRVANA www.nir-vana.eu/index.php/about-nir-vana/ International

402 Northern Ireland Food &

Drink http://nifda.co.uk United Kingdom

403 Novi Sad Commodity

Exchange www.proberza.co.rs Serbia

404 NTNU - Norwegian

University www.ntnu.no Norway

405 Odessa National

Academy www.onaft.edu.ua Ukrane

406 Olive oil market www.oliveoilmarket.eu Europe

407 Olive Oil Source www.oliveoilsource.com International

408 Olive oil times www.oliveoiltimes.com International

409 OMSK State Institute of

Service www.omgis.ru Russia

410

Ontario Ministry of

Agriculture, Food &

Rural Affairs

www.omafra.gov.on.ca Canada

411 OPEKEPE www.opekepe.gr/english/ Greece

412 Open agrifood orleans www.openagrifood-orleans.org/fr/ France

413 Organisation for Central

Markets and Fishing S.A.

www.okaa.gr/en/organization/our-

facilities/central-market-of-athens/ Greece

414 OVOSHINE http://ovoshine.eu Europe

415 Pamukkale University www.pau.edu.tr/gensek/defoult.aspx Turkey

416 Pig progress www.pigprogress.net Netherlands

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417 Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid

Agriculture University www.uaar.edu.pk/index.php Pakistan

418 Platform for transfer of

technologies http://ptt.arp.pl Polish

419 Polish Academy of

Sciences (PAS) www.pan.pl Poland

420 Poljoprivreda.ba www.poljoprivreda.ba Bosnia & Herzegovina

421 Poljoprivreda.info https://poljoprivreda.info Serbia

422 Poljoprivrednik

Magazine www.poljoprivrednik.net Serbia

423 Polytechnic School of

Orihuela epso.umh.es/en/ Spain

424 Poma di Girona http://ca.pomadegirona.cat Spain

425 Poultry Chat www.poultrychat.com International

426 Poultry keeper http://poultrykeeperforum.com International

427 Poultry Med www.poultrymed.com Israel

428 Poultry trends 2017 www.poultrytrends.com/201711/ International

429 Poultry world www.poultryworld.net International

430 Powerlinx www.powerlinx.com International

431 PRAGMATIC https://pragmatic-net.eu International

432 Precision Farming Dealer www.precisionfarmingdealer.com US

433 Price Waterhouse

Coopers' AgriFood www.pwc.nl/nl/marktsectoren/agrifood.html Netherlands

434 PROAKIS http://proakis.hutton.ac.uk United Kingdom

435 Produce World Group http://produceworld.co.uk United Kingdom

436 PROSODOL www.prosodol.gr Europe

437 Quadra Commodities www.quadra.com Australia

438 RaR Nofima www.nofima.no Norway

439 RECAPT www.recapt.org Europe

440 Regio Food Valley www.regiofoodvalley.nl Netherlands

441

Republic Government

NTO of Kazakhstan Food

Industry

www.kaznau.kz Kazakhstan

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442 Research Estonia www.researchinestonia.eu/research-

areas/agriculture/ Estonia

443 Research Institute of

Agric. Economics www.aki.gov.hu Hungary

444 ResearchItaly www.researchitaly.it/en/national-

technology-clusters/agrifood/ Italy

445 Rete Rurale Nazionale www.reterurale.it Italy

446 Rey Juan Carlos

University

www.urjc.es/en/academics/584-ciencia-y-

tecnologia-de-los-alimentos Spain

447 Rice global forum www.forum.rice.edu International

448 Rice news today http://ricenewstoday.com International

449 Rijksoverheid www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/voeding Netherlands

450 Rodale Institute Organic

Farmers Association https://rodaleinstitute.org USA

451 Rothamstead Research www.rothamsted.ac.uk/future-agri-food-

systems United Kingdom

452 Royal Horticulture

Society www.rhs.org.uk United Kingdom

453 Royal Veterinary College www.rvc.ac.uk United Kingdom

454 RUAF www.ruaf.org/about-ruaf Netherlands

455

Rural Development

Programme for Greece

2007-2013

www.agrotikianaptixi.gr Greek

456 RusFost www.rusfost.ru Russia

457 SC-NAT - Swiss Academy

of Science www.scnat.ch Switzerland

458 Scotland's Rural College www.sruc.ac.uk/info/120060/future_farming

_systems United Kingdom

459 Search tool for EU funds

www.funduszeeuropejskie.gov.pl/wyszukiwa

rka/mikro-male-i-srednie-

przedsiebiorstwa/#/wojewodztwo=2821

Polish

460 SEDCA www.nutricon.org Mexico

461 Seed Valley www.seedvalley.nl Netherlands

462 Self nutrition data http://nutritiondata.self.com International

463 Serbia for excel www.serbiaforexcell.com Serbia

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464 Serbian beekeeping

journal https://pcela.rs Serbia

465 SFAM - Society for

Applied Microbiology www.sfam.org.uk United Kingdom

466 SGS www.sgsgroup.at/en/Agriculture-Food.aspx Austria

467 Sheans Horse Farm and

Heritage Centre www.sheanshorsefarm.com Northern Ireland

468 Sheep central www.sheepcentral.com Australia

469 SIAFS www.agrifoodinnov.com United Kingdom

470 SIPA www.seedipalliance.com US

471 SKAL www.skal.nl Netherlands

472 Slovan University of

Agriculture in Nitra www.uniag.sk Slovakia

473 Smart agri-food

accelerator www.smartagrifood.com Belgium

474 Smart Akis Project www.smart-akis.com International

475 Smart farmer www.smartfarmerproject.eu Europe

476 Smart farming

conference https://smartfarmingconference.com Netherlands

477 Smart Specialisation

Platform s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/agri-food Europe

478 Society of Commercial

Seed Technologists www.seedtechnology.net US

479 Society of the Chemical

Industry www.soci.org United Kingdom

480

Spanish Council for

Scientific Research

(IATA/CSIC)

www.iata.csic.es Spain

481 Spanish Peaks

Beekeepers Association http://spanishpeaksbeekeepers.org Spain

482 SpeedUp! Europe

Accelerator http://teams.speedupeurope.eu Europe

483 Spotfolio www.spotfolio.com/en/ Germany

484 SPPK www.sppk.sk/en Slovakia

485 Start Life www.start-life.nl Netherlands

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486 Sweeper www.sweeper-robot.eu Europe

487 Swiss Food Research www.foodresearch.ch Switzerland

488 Synelixis www.synelixis.com/precision-agriculture/ Greece

489 Synthesis www.synthesis-network.com USA

490 Tallinn University www.tlu.ee Estonia

491 TAMA www.tama.co.il Israel

492 TAPipedia http://tapipedia.org International

493 Taste Of Austria www.tasteofaustria.org Austria

494 Teagasc www.teagasc.ie Ireland

495 TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/tag/food-tech/ International

496 Terraèvita https://terraevita.edagricole.it Italy

497 Texas A&M Agrilife http://agrilife.org US

498 The Aquaponic Source www.theaquaponicsource.com US

499 The beef site www.thebeefsite.com International

500 The brewers of Europe www.brewersofeurope.org Europe

501

The Economics of

Ecosystems &

Biodiversity

www.teebweb.org/agriculture-and-food/ International

502

The Estonian Chamber of

Agriculture and

Commerce

http://epkk.ee/en/ Estonia

503 The fish site https://thefishsite.com International

504 The flower expert www.theflowerexpert.com Netherlands

505

The Grain And Grain

Processing Information

Site

www.world-grain.com International

506 The Guardian Food

Science www.theguardian.com/science/food-science United Kingdom

507 The home brew forum www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk United Kingdom

508

The Ministry of

Agriculture of the

Republic of Lithuania

https://zum.lrv.lt/en/ Lithuania

509 The nature conservatory www.nature.org International

510 The Poultry Hawk https://innovativepoultryproducts.com USA

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511 The poultry site www.thepoultrysite.com International

512 The Royal Swedish

Academy of Sciences www.kva.se Sweden

513 The UK Water

Partnership www.theukwaterpartnership.org United Kingdom

514 The Western Producer www.producer.com Canada

515 The World Apple And

Pear Association www.wapa-association.org International

516

Timber Research and

Development

Association

www.trada.co.uk United Kingdom

517 Timber Trade

Association www.ttf.co.uk United Kingdom

518 TKI Agri & food www.tki-agrifood.nl Netherlands

519 TP Organics http://tporganics.eu Europe

520 Trafoon www.trafoon.eu Europe

521 Trimber agriculture www.trimble.com/agriculture International

522 Trust www.evacranetrust.org International

523 TU-Berlin www.foodtech.tu-berlin.de Germany

524

UCAM - Universidad

Catolica San Antonio de

Murcia

www.ucam.edu Spain

525 UCC - University Colleg

Cork www.ucc.ie/en/fns/ Ireland

526 Új mezőgazdasági

magazin www.ujmezogazdasagimagazin.hu Hungary

527 Ukrainian Agribusiness

Club http://ucab.ua/en Ukraine

528

UKRUFoST - Ukrainian

Union of Food Science

and Technology

www.nuft.in.ua/en/UkrUFoST Ukraine

529 UKSPA www.ukspa.org.uk/members/nafic United Kingdom

530 Ulster Farmers' Union www.ufuni.org Ireland

531 Union of Food Industry www.ufi-bg.com Bulgaria

532 Universidade Católica

Portuguesa www.esb.ucp.pt Portugal

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533

Universitatea de Stiinti

Agronomice si Medicina

Veterinara Bucuresti

www.biotehnologii.usamv.ro Romania

534

University of Agricultural

Sciences & Veterinary

Medicine

www.uaiasi.ro Romania

535 University of Agriculture

in Krakow en.ur.krakow.pl Poland

536 University of Barcelona www.ub.edu/portal/web/farmacia Spain

537 University of Greenwich www.nri.org United Kingdom

538 University of Leeds www.food.leeds.ac.uk United Kingdom

539 University of LLeida www.tecal.udl.cat/en Spain

540 University of Malta www.um.edu.mt Malta

541 University of Strasbourg www.unistra.fr France

542 University of York www.york.ac.uk/biology/centrefornovelagric

ulturalproducts/ United Kingdom

543 Urban Farming www.urbanfarming.org International

544 VOG www.vog-products.it Italy

545 Vojvodina organic

cluster http://vok.org.rs Serbia

546 VÖLB www.voelb.at Austria

547 VTT - Technical Research

Centre of Finland www.vtt.fi Finland

548 Wageningen Academy www.wageningenacademy.nl Netherlands

549 WAHASTRAT http://wahastrat.vizugy.hu Hungary - Serbia

550 Warsaw University of

Life Sciences www.sggw.pl/en/ Poland

551 WATTAgNet www.wattagnet.com USA

552 Western FarmPress www.westernfarmpress.com International

553 Whealbi project www.whealbi.eu Europe

554 World Food Forum http://worldfoodforum.eu Italy

555 World Wide Opportuniti

es on Organic Farms. https://wwoofgreece.org Greece

556 Worlds beekeeping

directory www.beehoo.com Sweden

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557 Yagro https://yagro.com International

558 Yeditepe University www.yeditepe.edu.tr Turkey

559 Young farmers www.sayfc.org International

560 Ypard www.europe.ypard.net Europe

561 Zagazig University www.english.zu.edu.eg Egypt

562 Znanje imanje portal http://znanjeimanje.mojsajt.rs Serbia

563

ΕΣΠΑ (ΣΕΣ) NSRF:

National Strategic

Reference Framework

www.espa.gr Greek