Outline of the presentation
Horticulture as organized in the Netherlands:
Greenports, a regional approach
Greenport Westland-Oostland my cluster
Horticulture an European approach
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Organization Dutch Horticulture
In Greenport Holland horticulture clusters
are cooperating as an active Dutch Network.
This way of organizing could be an example for European cooperation
ERIAFF
European Regions for Innovation in
Agriculture Food and Forestry
- Approachable
- Without fee
- Officially for regions in practice for Triple
Helix
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Building a network
Call: H2020-RUR-2016-2017
NEFERTITI: Networking European Farms to
Enhance Cross Fertilisation and Innovation Uptake
through Demonstration
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WP6: Policy Dialogue and network
sustainability
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South Holland, together with Tuscany, in
their role as ERIAFF members and
partners, and the municipality of Westland
and Seinajoki University are responsible
for WP 6.
Regional cluster networks would help
enormously and are interesting anyway.
Conclusion
The Horticulture in Europe is
A number of unique clusters in size and
completeness
The most knowledge intensive segment of
agriculture
The possibility to feed and green metropolitan
regions sustainable
An economic interesting segment of agriculture
Europe has gold in the hands, we must cooperate
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