1. S3P Agri-Food Working Committee Meeting

2. Smart Sensors 4 Agri-food

3. About the partnership Overall objective
Prepare all the agri-food companies to make the leap towards industry 4.0:
Introduce new technologies and inspire and enable the companies to use these
Connect to the cloud
Use the available data in the agri-food system
…and in the end …
Become a more interconnected, resilient and smart agri-food system in Europe

4. About the partnership Specific objectives
Set-up a network of interlinked, open access living labs to facilitate the implementation of smart sensor systems in the agri- food industry:
Staffed with competent, multidisciplinary teams
Facilitate awareness creation, give demonstrations, trainings and workshops
Establish support services for business creation and technology intelligence
Develop generic business models that can facilitate concrete, interregional investments and investment projects

5. Your partnership's progress to date
Funding is crucial to elaborate and kick-start our partnership
Project proposal submitted and approved:
COSME - European strategic cluster partnerships for smart specialisation investments - COS-CLUSTPARTNS – start-up: 1/11/’18:
Connsensys: Connecting smart sensor systems for the food industry
Strategy and roadmap development
Establishing an interregional platform of living labs (+ study visits and matchmaking events)
Set-up inter-regional demo cases and elaborate generic business models
Awareness creation towards agri-food industry + building strong community

6. Your partnership's progress to date
Project proposal submitted:
INNOSUP : Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains – second stage submitted: 13/09/’18:
S3Food: Smart sensor systems for food safety, quality control and resource efficiency in the food processing industry
Building further on Connsensys (COSME)
Establishing support mechanisms for SMEs  facilitate access to network of regional agri-food smart sensor living labs
Start-up investments projects, support implementation, etc.

7. Your partnership's progress to date
Learn, connect and demonstrate:
Will be elaborated and finalised in the framework of Connsensys:
Mapping of competences and matching of business opportunities
Industry cooperation and design of projects
Good partnership governance: Key principles and challenges
In our specific case: should involve regional authorities more

8. Challenges Good Partnership Governance: Key Principles and Challenges
Funding now via specific projects:
Not sustainable in the long run
Risk of significant delays between funding rounds
Big upfront time and resources investment (especially from lead region / organization)
Sometimes difficult to motivate the regions / organizations to actively participate

9. Challenges Good Partnership Governance: Key Principles and Challenges
Survey scoping note  partners prefer light governance model, but:
Full-time partnership manager (coordinator) to ensure strategy is developed and implemented effectively
Without minimum commitment, the partnership will depend on ad hoc project funding to proceed

10. Future plans in relation to governance
Heads-up with regard to this topic during technical partnership meeting (27th of November):
Ideas and concerns discussed with the partners
Nov ‘18 – May ‘19:
Gather information and lessons learned from other S3 partnerships
Incorporate results from Connsensys (COSME)
Involve regional authorities in different regions
Develop proposal in relation to governance structure and distribute amongst partners
June ‘19: partnership meeting to discuss and finalize governance structure

11. Questions for parallel session discussion
4 questions (in order of importance):
How can we involve more (regional) authorities and policy makers?
Do we need to establish a steering committee and how should it be structured? (How many members should it have? Which are the responsibilities of its members and the steering committee as a whole? How shall we distribute responsibilities amongst the membership?)
Do we need a kind of contract or MoU? What should it look like? What about the financial engagement/support of the different regions/clusters to cover basic management costs of the network?
How are other partnerships dealing with the governance structure? Do we need to set up a separate advisory board as ad hoc mirror group to the partnership?

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