1. 1. Create a network of livestock farmers, land users and stakeholders of the rural communities in 10 European countries to share knowledge on Digital Technologies and Innovations in rangeland areas and encourage their uptake. The network will foster knowledge exchange, adoption, and collaboration among farmers and rural stakeholders, valuing the input and expertise of farmers both for their peers and for the wider rural community;
   2. Identify and assess the needs, challenges and obstacles encountered by farmers and other land-users to uptake DTI and relevant solutions in rangeland areas. Identify needs from farmers and other land-users, and prioritize them, considering:
      • TA1: Improving farm management of extensive livestock systems and practices;
      • TA2: Facilitating land use and land sharing in the territories;
      • TA3: Developing and promoting rangeland quality products and increasing awareness of ecosystem services provided by RLFS;
   3. Evaluate, adapt and foster the acceptance of existing innovative solutions (DTI) and best practices, onsite in different communities with large diversity of stakeholders ensuring they align with their needs;
   4. To promote DTI and solutions for livestock farmers in different rangeland areas across Europe through a series of targeted scaling activities (on farm & virtual demonstrations, trainings, education events) tailored to each country, context and Rural-AKIS, fostering uptake and increase the flow of information between stakeholders;
   5. To share knowledge and ready to use DTI solutions in the 10 Rural-AKIS and at EU level, through efficient and tailored communication and dissemination activities and tools that systematically use the most trusted channels in rangeland areas. To maximize the impact of the project's Key Exploitable Assets practical digital solutions and innovative practices will be promoted, ensuring long-term adoption by farmers and fostering cross-sector exchanges between rural communities in different countries.

• Contribution to the cross-cutting objective of modernising the sector by fostering and sharing knowledge, innovation and digitalisation in agriculture and rural areas, and encouraging their uptake, as well as to the European Green Deal, including climate change, and Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy objectives and targets.

• Collection and distribution of easily accessible practice-oriented knowledge on the thematic area chosen, in particular the existing innovative solutions, best practices and research findings that are ready to be put into practice, but not sufficiently known or used by practitioners

• Maintenance of practical knowledge in the long-term – beyond the project period – in particular by using the main trusted dissemination channels that farmers/foresters most often consult.

• Greater user acceptance of collected solutions and a more intensive dissemination of existing knowledge, by connecting actors, policies, projects and instruments to speed up innovation and promote the faster and wider co-creation and transposition of innovative solutions into practice.

EXPECTED RESULTS IN ROMANIA

• Take part in Network Facilitators (NFs) groups meetings created for sharing of knowledge, promoting, and creating new synergies in actions and the cross-fertilization of knowledge and methods;
• Set up a Scientific and Technical Group (STG) composed of experts with a transdisciplinary approach to cover all dimensions of the Thematic Areas;
• Co-design (location, farmers, and stakeholders) an Innovation and Demonstration HUB (ID-HUB) consisting in a group of actors for knowledge exchanges, taking into account national specificities;
• 5 physical and 5 online NWS (national workshops) will be organised using open innovation methods for co-creation, crowd-innovation and cross-fertilization;
• 4 physical and 4 online TNWS (transnational workshops) will be organized gathering all countries. Romania will host the first TNWS;
• Address the institutional environment, involving public managers, administrators, international organizations (FAO) and policy makers at EU and national level;
• Publish recommendations on future DTI research, practices, and adoption, as well as topics of interest for EU and national research programs, targeting decision and policy-makers to ensure their implementation and wider and long-term distribution. Two four-page summaries combining the selected achievements and results will be produced in ten languages, including Romanian;
• Surveys conducted at farm operational level (farmers, farm advisors etc.) and at beyond-farm level with other stakeholders like animal inspectors/vets, abattoirs, milk processors etc to understand possible barriers to the use of DTI throughout the value chain to identify needs and obstacles encountered by farmers and other stakeholders regarding use of DTI solutions;
• Surveys users of rangeland areas other than farmers (e.g. in forestry, tourism, general public) to identify expectations/perceptions 24 of other land users than farmers in rangeland areas regarding DTI solutions;
• Report summarizing the prioritization of needs and the reasoning behind it;
• Development an inventory of DTI solutions available on the project’s website;
• Prioritization of solutions for the several ID-HUBS and Rural-AKIS and the reasoning behind;
• Carry-out a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for each of the solutions, with the national’ STGs;
• 4 trainings and 4 demonstrations conducted in Romania;
• Participating in 4 physical and 4 online international training and demonstration visits during the TWS.