This document summarizes the objectives and agenda of the 2nd e-ROSA stakeholder workshop on developing an e-infrastructure for open science in agriculture. The workshop aims to: 1) Identify societal challenges in agriculture that could benefit from open science and an e-infrastructure approach; 2) Discuss common challenges in ICT and data sharing that such an e-infrastructure could address; and 3) Engage scientists from different backgrounds to develop example use cases. The agenda includes presentations on key challenges in agriculture, breakout group discussions of example use cases, and working sessions to identify cross-cutting issues and priorities to inform a roadmap for an e-agriculture

1. Challenges & Solutions towards an
e-Infrastructure for Open Science
in Agri-food
Set up of the 2nd e-ROSA stakeholder workshop

2. Objective of the workshop
• Answering the SO WHAT…. ? question
• In other words, how will digitizing, opening, linking the research workflow
in the agricultural & food sciences, make the science itself better?

3. Objectives
• Identify societal impacts & research challenges that benefit from an
open science e-infrastructure in agri-food
• Identify common challenges in ICT & data that could be tackled with
an e-infrastructure approach
• Engage a broad community of scientists with a diverse background to
ensemble transformative use cases

4. Easy right? For example,
• Societal goal: Ending hunger (SDG 2)
• Research challenge: Climate smart agriculture
• Open science & e-infrastructure challenge: Big Data

5. To reach the objective, we need …
• Modesty: what is actually the role of research (& innovation) in
facilitating the achievement of societal impacts?
• Do not over-promise
• Transdisciplinary thinking: How are products (publications, datasets,
models, technology) from research used in policy & business decision
making processes?
• User-driven approach: Who would like to use these products in the
agri-food sector?

6. Impact chain approach (or logical framework)
Inputs Activities Outputs Outcomes Impacts

7. Impact chain for Precision agriculture and role of science

8. Format for case studies
• Impact pathways
• Audiences
• Role of Research
• Challenges in data, infrastructure, processing power and
analytics
• Solutions for more efficient Research
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9. Case studies (part of presentations this afternoon)
 Agricultural Monitoring
 SDG 2: ending hunger and the missing middle
Animal genetics and breeding
Data services for small holders
Food Safety
But, many more exist…

10. Distinction in researchers
Those who are interested to develop the science to realise the
European Open Science Cloud
Vs.
Those who are interested to benefit from the European Open Science
Cloud to do better science

11. Set up of the workshop
• First half day: Setting the scene
• 13.00-14.00: Workshop objectives
• 14.00-15.00 Key notes (15 min per presentation)
• Scientific and data challenges for addressing SDG 2: the missing middle (Linda
Veldhuizen, Wageningen UR and SDSN)
• Research Challenges in supporting digitization of agriculture (Brian King,
CGIAR Big Data Platform)
• A national agenda for precision agriculture, and its link to data/ICT
infrastructures (Frans Lips, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality,
the Netherlands, tbc)

12. Setting the scene (continued)
• 15.30-17.00 working session e-ROSA impact cases: scientific & societal
challenges enabled with e-infrastructures
• 3 Topic tables, group circulates with 30 minutes each round. Starting with a
short presentation (5 min) of the e-ROSA storylines:
• Smart farming, food security & the environment
• Rob Lokers: Crop Yield Forecasting
• Jan-dirk Bulens: Services for smallholder farmers
• Gene-based approaches from omics to landscape
• Michael Chelle: Genomics
• Elizabeth Arnaud: biodiversity data
• Food Safety, Nutrition & Health
• Matthias Filter: Food safety
• 17.00 – 17.30: Plenary feedback per topic

13. Second half day: Explore and discover
• 9.00-9.15: Looking back at day 1, lessons learned and next steps
• 9.15-10.15: Inspirational talks
• New applications with satellite information and remote sensing (Rolf de By, ITC Twente)
• Food, nutrition and health research infrastructures (Pieter van ‘t Veer, WUR)
• Borlaug Global Wheat Rust network and its data based approaches (Jens Grønbech Hansen,
Aarhus University)
• 10.45-12.00: Break out workshops: Expectations & obstacles for using state-of-the-art
data & ICT to solve the next generation scientific questions/challenges
• Introductory presentation:
• Embrapa’s approach to open agricultural science (Patrícia Rocha Bello Bertin, Embrapa)
• Towards a domain-specific e-infrastructure: the example of DARIAH
• Topics for break outs:
• Smart farming, food security & the environment (Rob Lokers as facilitator)
• Gene-based approaches from omics to landscape (Michael Chelle as facilitator)
• Food Safety, Nutrition & Health (Sander Janssen as facilitator)

14. Third half day: Syntheses to common
challenges (#unconference)
• 13.00 - 13.30: Plenary feedback
• 13.30-15.30: Synthesis working session towards the Roadmap
• Feedback from first workshop (Odile Hologne, 10 min)
• Identifying cross-cutting issues to elaborate, buzz groups
• 2 rounds of 15 minutes World cafe on 4 priority issues
• 16.00-17.00: Closing plenary
• Feedback from Synthesis working session
• Individual feedback from participants: crowd sourcing with your 3 top priority
for the e-ROSA vision & roadmap paper & lessons learned during the
workshop
• Closing words by the e-ROSA coordinator Odile Hologne

15. WORK shop!

16. Practical information
• Tweet at: @H2020_eROSA #openscience #agriculture
• Dinner this evening: Diels Restobar, drinks from 18.00, start at 19.00