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Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour

Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, rapid digitalisation has fundamentally transformed European working conditions. While its positive consequences are well recognised, digital transformation also puts a sorely needed part of the European workforce at risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. IDILAB (Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour) investigates the impacts that technological progress and subsequent structural changes have on the labour market integration of migrant workers. By developing a new methodological approach, IDILAB shall provide novel evidence on migrants’ exposure to the process of digitalisation, and formulate evidence-based and innovative policy options for the EU and national governments to improve on the scope and adequacy of national and European policy directed at encouraging a fair digital transition for all, including migrants. The proposed project will contribute with new knowledge on migrants’ own perspectives on barriers and enablers for a sustainable integration in a fast-changing labour market. I, the experienced researcher (Dr Olga Gheorghiev, the Czech Republic), will work with a European centre of excellence (the Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC, OsloMet, Norway), and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI, Belgium) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

CULTUral heritage in RurAL remote areas for creative tourism and sustainabilITY

The main objective of the project is to contribute to the promotion of cultural and creative tourism activities, considering the different capacities, resources, and specificities (material, creative, human...) of the territories, as a mean to help with the sustainable development of peripheral rural areas, favoring job creation and population settlement. For this, the potential of its cultural heritage will be researched, taking into account both the artisan material culture (techniques, materials, patterns and decorative elements), as well as the intangible culture (music, oral knowledge and culinary traditions) as a resource.
 
To promote non-seasonal tourism as a form of sustainable development with a stable population settlement we are going to research the crafts linked to the territory and their implications, but we will also carry out a documentation of the productive processes. First and foremost, we are going to cater to the necessities of the local communities and pay attention to aspects related to societal groups at risk of exclusion, such as women, the elderly and the youth.

All this will be developed from a multidisciplinary perspective, for which we will count on the various teams —most of them linked to different countries— that will be part of the consortium. Each of these partners will contribute to the development, as well as to the final result of the project through input directly related to their area of ??expertise: for example, among the collaborators we have intellectual teams specialized in the digitalization of heritage, research, or communication and dissemination, as well as as various institutions that will act as a testing ground for the more practical parts of the proposal. However, if something will characterize our work, it will be the constant collaboration between all parties, as well as the exchange of advice and experiences that will help to enrich collective knowledge and guarantee optimal results.

POWERING ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO DRIVE THE CLIMATE TRANSITION

PACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together in sustainable ways. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.
Therefore, PACESETTERS will set out to:
-Create knowledge from collaborative research to keep pace with the transition
-Propose and test creative business models to set the pace of the transition
-Assess strategies of valorisation to push the pace of the transition
 
This approach will identify and analyse advanced practices that run transversally across the cultural and creative sectors; contextualise the outcomes of co-research in real-world laboratories for social imagination; further develop and promote the preliminary results of experiments in iterative support and evaluation frames. The PACESETTERS approach centres on inclusion, participation and iteration in order ensure that gender equity and diversity inform it at every step and on every level.

The result will be a critical evaluation and all-encompassing demonstration of the actual potentials of the CCIs to drive the climate transition while systematically analysing their impact on micro-, meso- and macro-level:
-Understanding the climate transition as a triple transition: green, digital and inclusive
-Innovating aPACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.

Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care

European elderly care experiences labor shortages, lack of qualified workers and a mismatch between capacity and demands, causing stress, burnout, and reduced mental wellbeing among healthcare workers and informal caregivers. Leaders are crucial in promoting supportive working conditions but lack research-based measures to act upon these challenges.

Support4Resilience (S4R) will develop, implement, and evaluate a research-based Toolbox to support healthcare leaders in improving healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. S4R will identify resilience and mental wellbeing factors among healthcare workers and informal caregivers; explore their perspectives and needs; develop new theory on the relationship between individual and organizational resilience, and mental wellbeing; and develop recommendations and cost-effective interventions. The Toolbox with tailormade resources for policy and practical use will be available through an open access S4R Resource Bank.

The S4R Toolbox includes three main tools: 1) Mapping and identification, 2) Reflection and education, and 3) Reorganization. Measures are initiated at the organizational level and effects on mental wellbeing and resilience transpire at the frontline of elderly care. The Toolbox covers different situational contexts, types of healthcare providers and health system levels. Elderly care settings in six European countries will implement and evaluate the Toolbox through a process evaluation, effectiveness evaluation, and cost-effectiveness evaluation. 

S4R provides policymakers, decisions-makers and leaders with solutions for taking action to solve specific risks for healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing. Thus, pertinent to the work programme, S4R will support the development of resilient health systems in European elderly care through improved leadership capabilities, governance structures, and adaptive capacities.

Providing research infrastructure services to support Next Generation EU

This four-year project will harness outputs from key social science RIs in Europe and other reliable sources to support the aims of the ‘Next Generation EU’ programme and to inform EU youth policy. Virtual access will be provided to the outputs through special installations (portals) developed during the project. The core of the proposal is a set of existing research ‘services’, which will be re-purposed and customised to focus directly on the five themes: Make it Green; Make it Digital; Make it Healthy; Make it Strong; and Make it Equal. 

For each area, the consortium will work collaboratively to produce seven sets of resources:

i)	A searchable inventory of relevant variables drawn from multiple cross-national datasets; 

ii)	Analytical summaries, suitable for policy makers and analysts new to the field, as well as interactive resources available through the project portal;

iii)	Harmonised and merged extracts from these datasets that reduce the burden on analysts and increase sample sizes;

iv)	New data collected through the ESS’s established CRONOS web panel infrastructure. Eleven countries will field five waves of the panel, each one dedicated to a NextGenEU theme. Free and rapid access to the data will be available through the CRONOS portal alongside analytical summaries;

v)	In-person and virtual deliberative forums with young people (aged 18-34) in four countries covering the five Next Generation EU’ themes;

vi)	An educational tool (E-NextGen) channelling our data for use in classrooms and by the general public;

vii)	Comprehensive training materials related to all project outputs.


Mapping of Longitudinal data of Inequalities in Education

The MapIE project aims to identify mechanisms causing educational inequalities and policies or interventions compensating for them. We do a systematic review of how these have been studied internationally using longitudinal designs. We map existing longitudinal data that we describe in a public metadata database, and we analyse them to describe the mechanisms of inequalities and to identify effective policies and interventions in different local contexts. We focus on the contextual differences between the Nordic and Central European countries that have structurally different education systems. Within national contexts and using comparative research designs, we look at system-, regional- and school-level policies and practices and individual-level factors (e.g. socioeconomic status, immigrant background, gender, special educational needs) that are associated with the development of educational inequalities and the successful prevention of achievement gaps. We publish and disseminate the empirical results of the project through multiple channels to scientific audiences, policy makers and the wider public. At the end, we create a public framework for studying educational inequalities longitudinally in future studies, acknowledging the role of local contexts but aiming for comparability at the European level. 

We implement the project in seven work packages. Our consortium consists of internationally acknowledged experts in large-scale educational assessment research from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Luxembourg/Germany. The partners have a long-standing history of collaboration with each other, European researchers, and national and international education policy makers, and they bring extensive longitudinal datasets to the project. The project will considerably strengthen the knowledge base of what shapes educational outcomes over time, how to best support the learning of all students and how to reduce education inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

Contextualized pathways to reduce housing inequalities in the green and digital transition.

The project Reducing housing inequalities in the green and digital transition (ReHousIn) is committed to better understand the impacts of recent crises on housing inequalities across different European regions, especially with regard to the implementation of the green transition launched by the EU. The overall aim is to explore the mechanisms affecting the (re)production of housing inequalities under recent crisis conditions, and the impacts of the EU induced green transition in different national contexts and along different degrees of urbanisation. Based on a contextualized and comparative understanding of the mechanisms (re)producing housing inequalities, ReHousIn inquiries into multi-level pathways and inclusive local housing initiatives to spark innovative EU, national and local policy solutions towards inclusionary and quality housing, mitigating the possible negative impacts of the EU induced green transition. It conducts a comparative, multi-level analysis in 9 European countries – Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom – focusing on attractive metropolitan regions, middle-sized cities and rural areas by means of a mixed-method project design. A quantitative data analysis on recent trends in housing inequalities and their relation to crises across different levels of urbanization will provide the framework for 27 local cases studies in which the impact of multi-level trajectories of housing-system, welfare regimes and environmental policy instrumentations on the (re)production of local housing inequalities and the emergence of inclusive housing initiatives are analyzed. Based on this, ReHousIn compares mechanisms of differentiation feeding into policy labs, aiming to formulate recommendations on how to tackle negative social externalities related the EU green transition at EU, national and local levels.

Strategies for achieving equity and inclusion in education, training and learning in democratic Europe

STRIDE will provide a new, comprehensive and comparative knowledge-base on effective education reforms, policy initiatives and interventions aimed at reducing inequalities in education, training and learning outcomes in Europe. STRIDE will do this through analyses of education reforms in national and regional systems, existing large-scale educational assessment data and existing longitudinal data on the causal link between educational and other social policies and inequalities in educational achievements. In examining the learning progress of students over time, STRIDE will closely examine to the range of intersectional variables such as socio-economic background, gender, (dis)abilities, migration status, home language, early childhood education and care (ECEC) attendance, which may affect learning outcomes in different ways in different contexts. The project will combine diverse methods, data and disciplines (comparative education, political science, education science, sociology) in innovative ways: mapping at national and regional levels on (1) education reforms in the past 25 years by policy analysis, (2) longitudinal trends of inequalities in educational achievement by quasi-experiment analysis of existing large-scale educational assessment data, and (3) effect of education reforms and interventions by analysis existing longitudinal data and registry data following student cohorts over time combined with a qualitative inquiry into policymakers' perspective. Through the involvement of national and European stakeholders, STRIDE will develop methodology and assessment tools for policy learning offering policymakers a toolbox of enhanced knowledge of what shapes educational outcomes over time and demonstrating the usefulness of longitudinal data in policy-making to reduce educational inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

dialoguing@rts – Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogical Arts Education

d@rts is a catalyst for increasing social cohesion and inclusion, using embodied performing arts activities to develop cognitive and affective cultural literacy. We recognise that the performing arts encompass mass-market consumer goods, as well as non-linguistic, embodied and social activities, providing massive opportunities for inclusive participation.
Our target groups comprise actors of all ages and social positions, especially in the school system and in community arts initiatives. We will empower these groups to be artistically active, dialogically related and culturally literate, giving them tools and motivation to improve their own situations and those of others within the overall frame of a cohesive European society, informed by global perspectives.
Using the post-colonial insight that culture is necessarily heterogeneous, d@rts has four related objectives:
1. Understand how performing arts activities relate to cultural literacy in official discourse and documents across partner countries
2. Use this understanding to build dialogues and co-create physical and digital actions with heterogeneous groups within our target audience
3. Develop assessment tools for these actions, enabling measurable growth in cultural literacy
4. Use our findings in recommendations for cultural and educational policies that build long-term social cohesion and inclusion
Based on these objectives, the overall outputs comprise:
1. Documentary, survey and participatory research findings
2. Performative DIALOGART actions for cultural literacy
3. Policy and practice recommendations to increase social cohesion via cultural literacy actions inspired by the performing arts
d@rts imagines new futures and creates hope and social cohesion through performing arts education. By creating participatory spaces and facilitating dialogues, we empower voices seldom heard. d@rts thus advances cultural literacy, and enhances social cohesion and resilience, to build an inclusive future for Europe.

REGULAR AND UNPLANNED CARE ADAPTIVE DASHBOARD FOR CROSS–BORDER EMERGENCIES

During cross-border health emergencies, health and care services may be overwhelmed by high numbers of patients requiring unplanned care. Delays and backlogs in regular care, as a result of the stretched health care system, leave millions of patients with regular care needs unattended, resulting in disastrous healthcare outcomes. If poor healthcare outcomes across the population are to be avoided, healthcare systems must become more resilient and flexible and allow for rapid changes in the care delivery services. RAPIDE’s aim is to develop, validate and demonstrate a portfolio of powerful tools that enable healthcare systems to build in robustness of decisions, resilience of the health care professionals and patients and flexibility in the modalities of care delivery, thereby maintaining access to regular care during health emergencies. 

RAPIDE emphasises opportunities for optimising in-hospital care, but also for relocating care from hospitals to community and home environments without loss of care quality. Thus, the project focuses on two closely-linked challenges – 1: Identifying and predicting how much care, and which care, needs to be moved along the care chain; 2: Identifying and verifying effective, feasible and acceptable ways to make this reconfiguration of care a reality. This will be achieved by (a) resource modelling, which builds comprehensive foresight and forecasting solutions and links them to patient flows optimization, along the whole chain of care, (b) selecting and implementing the best available tools to deliver regular care in new ways. To ensure usability, acceptability and equitable real-world value, RAPIDE will be co-designed and co-validated with stakeholders, from patients, GPs, clinicians and hospital managers to health ministries, pandemic-management and public health agencies. A Table Top Exercise and extensive communication and dissemination will raise awareness of the project’s successes.

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Det overordna målet med prosjektet IMPRESS har vært å bidra til å heve avling og kvalitet i norsk grovfôrproduksjon. Dette har en gjort ved å utvikle og tilpasse teknologi og modeller som kan brukes som verktøy i et framtidig presisjonsjordbruk.

Et av de viktigste prinsippene i slikt jordbruk er å målrette bruken av innsatsfaktorer ut fra kunnskap om variasjon i jorda og vekstenes status og avlingspotensial. Presise estimater for oppnådde avlinger er av de viktige forutsetningene i så måte, og de bør ha høy oppløsning i tid og rom. Til dette formålet har prosjektet utvikla en prototype for en sensorpakke med tilhørende posisjoneringsutstyr som kan monteres på traktor eller andre bakkegående kjøretøy. Prototypen er grunnlaget for et verifiseringsprosjekt finansiert av NFR som starter i oktober 2022 der en vil undersøke om det er interesse og grunnlag for å utvikle et kommersielt salgsprodukt til en rimelig pris.
 
En har også lagt grunnlag for å gi gode prediksjoner av stående avling og kvalitet i eng med å bruke rimelige sensorløsninger montert på droner. Slike vil gi mulighet for å kartlegge status også på tidspunkt der det ikke er aktuelt å kjøre i enga.

Målretting av bruken av innsatsfaktoren gjødsel handler også om å vite presist hva graset trenger og hvor mye næringsstoffer som til ei hver tid kommer plantene til gode fra organisk materiale i jorda, husdyrgjødsel og plantedeler som står igjen om våren og etter slått. Når det gjelder hvor mye nitrogen som trengs for å ta ut grasets avlingspotensial, er det gjennomført flere store feltforsøk der en har variert gjødselmengdene og målt avlingsresponsen. Resultatene ga ikke grunnlag for å revidere normene som brukes i praktisk dyrkingsrådgivning i dag.
  
Kunnskap om nitrogenopptak og nitrogenbehov i ulike vekstperioder er også bygd inn i en nyutvikla beslutningsstøttemodell, NORNE, som simulerer produksjonen og nitrogenbehovet i enga på grunnlag av værvariable, jorddata og opplysninger om kløverinnhold. Rutiner for å korrigere modellens prediksjoner med informasjon fra sensormålinger underveis i vekstperiodene er lagt til, og disse ble vist å øke treffsikkerheten betydelig. Ut fra testinga som er gjort så langt, er det ingen andre publiserte forsknings- eller beslutningsstøttemodeller som har tilsvarende liten feilmargin.
  
Muligheter for å fordele planlagt gjødselmengde på flere tidspunkt i vekstperioden er gjerne en forutsetning for å praktisere presisjonsgjødsling. I grovfôrproduksjonen gjødsles det om våren og etter hver slått bortsett fra den siste, og en kan justere tilføringa etter predikert behov ved disse tidspunktene. I tillegg kan det være aktuelt å spare og behovsjustere en viss andel til spredning 2-4 uker før hver slått. Slik sein tilføring kunne tenkes å gi mye lettløselig nitrogen og nitrat og lågere proteinkvalitet i avlinga. Dette ble undersøkt i en serie med felteksperiment der samme mengde gjødselnitrogen ble fordelt på ulike måter fram mot førsteslått. Det ble små forskjeller mellom behandlingene både i avlingsmengde og proteinkvalitet, og nitratinnholdet i avlinga var gjennomgående lågt.
 
Prosjektet har også utvikla et nettbasert spørreskjema som er tenkt brukt av bønder i forlengelsen av at de har fått gjort ei geografisk posisjonert avlingskartlegging av engene sine. Dette skal være et hjelpemiddel til å diagnostisere og seinere utbedre lågtytende områder. Skjemaet er tilgjengelig via NIBIO sine nettsider.

Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri, Yara Norge AS, Yaras forskningssenter i Hanninghof Tyskland, Felleskjøpet Agri SA og Strand Unikorn AS har finansieret prosjektet. Lantmännens forskningsstiftelse har også bidratt med økonomisk støtte. Forskningspartnerne har vært Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi (NIBIO), Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet og Hushållningssällskapet. Norsk Landbruksrådgiving har også deltatt aktivt i prosjektet.

The project aims to contribute to increased returns as well as environmentally sound production strategies in Norwegian forage farming. The basic idea is that principles and technologies from precision agriculture in cereal cropping can be adapted and developed further for the more challenging and heterogeneous perennial grasses. Improved precision in management will be developed along two axes. We intend to optimize nitrogen (N) fertilization practices in space and time, and we aim for enhanced yields in within-field problem areas by identifying and removing growth constraints. Our approach to reach these goals is to develop a platform that integrates new knowledge of plant responses to N, novel algorithms for sensor based yield estimation, simple models for crop growth and soil N mineralization, and real-time and predicted weather data. The main deliverables will be i) hardware and software for prototypes of a tractor mounted and an airborne sensor system for grass yield estimation, ii) a model providing recommendations for N fertilization with high temporal and spatial resolution, and iii) user-friendly and practical guidelines for identification of low-yielding areas. Several field experiments will be conducted in swards managed as to yield highly digestible forage. Here soil heterogeneity and treatments with differing rates and timing of N fertilization will cause yield differences needed for sensor evaluations and algorithm development. The yield data will also be basis for refinement of yield response curves to be integrated parts of the model providing site-specific fertilizer recommendation, also with regard to the feed quality of the crude protein fraction at grass harvest. There are several industry partners with financial contribution to the project that are interested in developing the suggested solutions to decision support services. All prototypes, algorithms, models and protocols will, however be published and freely available for everyone.

Improved precision in forage crop management

I "Kostnadseffektiv grovfôrproduksjon" har vi med utgangspunkt i den norske analysemodellen Grovfôrøkonomi, laga ei plattform for heilskapelege analysar av ulike produksjonsliner for grovfôr. Målet har vore å kunne studere  korleis det endelege økonomiske resultatet er avhengig av engfornyingsmetode, frøblanding, gjødsling, hausteintensitet, konserveringsteknikk og type innandørsmekanisering. Plattforma vart brukt til å lage scenaria for ulike mjølkeproduksjonsbruk, sauebruk og ammekubruk på ulike naturgrunnlag. Ein såg både på grovfôrkostnader og totale fôrkostnader.
Det som i størst grad ga variasjon i totale fôrkostnader på mellomstore sauebruk (170 vinterfôra søyer), mellomstore mjølkebruk (kvote 200 tonn) og ammekubruk (30 årskyr), var grad av eige eller leige av maskiner, fortørking, køyreavstandar, og utfôringssystem. På store mjølkeproduksjonsbruk (kvote 400 tonn) varierte totale fôrkostnader mest etter hauste- og konserveringsline, grad av fortørking, lagring og utstyr for spreiing av husdyrgjødsel, samt grad av sameiege av nokre haustemaskiner. Med avlingstal frå Trøndelag, ga to slåttar per år lågare kostnader enn tre, og blandingseng av gras og kløver ga lågare kostnader enn graseng. Dersom kvoten vart produsert på færre kyr med høgare avdrått, auka kraftfôrbehovet, men både grovfôrkostnadene og dei totale fôrkostnadene vart lågare. Det var fordi det totale grovfôrbehovet gjekk ned, og det vart da liten skilnad i kostnader etter om enga vart slått to eller tre gonger i året. Uavhengig av kor i intervallet 0-300 kr ein sette timeprisen på eige arbeid, var sameige versus eineige og leigekøyring det som påverka grovfôrkostnaden mest på alle typebruka.   
Vidare såg prosjektet på om ein kunne utvikle agronomiske tiltak og teknologi som kan auke avlingane og minke svinnet i grovfôrproduksjonen. I arbeidspakken der ein skulle sjå på nye og betre tilpassa måtar for vedlikehaldssåing og fornying av enga, har vi undersøkt om fjernmåling kan brukast til å karakterisere grassvoren som skal fornyast. Det er utvikla algoritmar som ut frå informasjon i foto presist kan klassifisere svoren i levande og daudt plantemateriale, samt jord. I forsøk der ein systematisk har manipulert desse karakterane før direktesåing, har det vist seg at det er både øvre og nedre grenser for kor mykje levande materiale det kan vere dersom nysådde plantar skal etablere seg og overleve over tid. Tersklane for at ein skal få ein avlingsauke etter direktesåing synest å vere ulike i timoteibasert og raigrasbasert eng, og er heller ikkje dei same vår og sommar. Er det lite etablert vegetasjon (0-15% dekking) når det blir direktesådd, blir det gjerne for stort oppslag av ugras som konkurrerer ut nysådd gras eller kløver.  
Eit viktig forskingsfelt i prosjektet var også korleis ein med meir målretta og lokalt tilpassa artsblandingar kunne auke avlingane. I fem felt vart det sådd ut i alt sju gras- og kløverartar, klassifiserte som seine eller raske etablererar, enten åleine eller i lag. I alle engår var det stort meirutbytte av å så artar i blanding mot kva dei ytte kvar for seg. Blanding av gras og kløver ga størst meirutbytte, men også blandingar med ulike grasarter utan kløver ga større avling enn monokulturar. Blandingar hadde vesentleg mindre ugras enn monokulturar, og dei som inneheldt fleirårig raigras, ga noko høgare avlingar enn tilsvarande utan. Denne effekten minka utover i engåra. Artsblandingar hadde gjennomgåande minst like høgt energiinnhald som monokulturar.
Potensialet for å auke nettoavlingane gjennom betre konserveringsmåtar har vorte studert i forsøk på NMBU. Ein har sett på kva det har å seie for svinn frå plansiloar om komprimering blir gjort med traktor (8,3 tonn) eller hjullastar (14,8 tonn) og om det blir brukt syrehaldig ensileringsmiddel eller ikkje. Sjølv om graset vart ulikt komprimert, var det ingen effekt av type pakkemaskin på gjæringskvalitet, kjemisk samansetjing eller aerob stabilitet i surfôret. Tørrstofftapet var større frå plansiloar enn frå rundballar og laboratoriesiloar. Når graset hadde lågare tørrstoffinnhald enn 28%, vart tapet i plansilo større med tung enn med lettare pakkemaskin, truleg fordi pressafttapet vart større. Når graset hadde 33% tørrstoff, og plansiloane vart lagra over neste sommar, var tapet minst i etter pakking med tung pakkemaskin, truleg fordi auka komprimering beskytta betre mot luft både ved innlegging og uttak. Tapa i plansiloane, aerob stabilitet og innhald av klostridiesporar i surfôret vart ikkje påverka av bruken av ensileringsmiddel. Ensileringsmiddelet forebygde nedbryting av råproteinfraksjonen og ga ein høgare opptaksindeks på surfôret på grunn av svakare gjæring.
Forskningsmidlane for jordbruk og matindustri har finansiert prosjektet saman med Addcon Nordic, Agromiljø, Animalia, Fiskå Mølle, FK Agri, FK Rogaland Agder, Felleskjøpet fôrutvikling, Norske FK, Nortura, Strand Unikorn, Rogaland fylkeskommune, TINE Rådgiving og medlem og Yara Norge.

The project aims to contribute to increased returns as well as sound investments and production strategies in Norwegian forage production. The background is the overall ambition among the industry partners, farmers' representatives and the funding body to turn the trend of increasing forage costs in absolute terms and relative to concentrate feeding.
 
An analytical platform that allows and conducts integrated analyses and comparisons of presently available and innovated production chains from soil tillage to feeding out will be developed. The Irish Grange Feed Cost Model is meant to be the core of this platform.
 
A substantial part of the project will be research with the objective to develop principles, technology and methods that may contribute to close the gap between potential and realized net yields in forage production. Experiments as well as meta-analyses of available data are planned that specifically address innovations in grassland renovation and renewal, crop composition and preservation techniques.

The project will be concluded by scenario analyses of whole production systems, where estimated animal responses to forage qualities and types are included. They shall cover a representative sampling of operating structure, types of livestock under different soils and climatic conditions. The industry partners will take actively part in this work as well as in dissemination activities.
 
It is an important goal in the project to expand knowledge and promote enthusiasm for forage production and utilization among farmers and advisory services. We anticipate that the analytical platform and the data and information gathered will be a resource and basis for development of decision support models. The improved agronomic practises and the consciousness and knowledge of where costs accumulate, and can be reduced, will lead to more sustainable ruminant productions in Norway.

Improved cost-efficiency in Norwegian forage production

For å kunne kartleggje og utnytte potensialet for biologisk nitrogenfiksering i norsk grovfôrproduksjon, krevst meir kjennskap både til korleis ulike klimafaktorar og driftsmåtar påverkar kløveren si evne til å overleve vinteren og til hans interaksjonar  med dei andre artane i eng- og beitesamfunna. I dette programmet vil ein gjennom eksperimentelt arbeid i felt og kontrollert klima studere vinterherdigheit og vårvekstpotensiale på individ- og organ-nivå hos kvitkløver, samt når og i kor stor grad nitrog en i daudt kløvermateriale vert tilgjengeleg for andre artar. Vidare vil ein med utgangspunkt i ein britisk modell for artsinteraksjonane og populasjonsdynamikken i beite med kvitkløver og raigras, drøfte moglege mekanismar for og konsekvensar av svinging ar i populasjonar av raud-og kvitkløver i norske eng- og beitesamfunn. Det innleiande modellarbeidet skal utkrystallisere hypotesar som så skal testast i forsøk i felt og i regulert klima. Ved sidan av å oppnå direkte kunnskap om dei

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Stimulering av internasjonalt FoU-samarbeid

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