Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence: Sustainable Agriculture for Greener Future

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The main objective of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE): Sustainable Agriculture for Greener Future AgriGREEN project is to disseminate knowledge about the EU and its policies, with an emphasis on EU agricultural policy and Farm to Fork Strategy and high focus on the concept of agricultural sustainability. The stated objective will be realized through curricula innovation, intensive training course, panel discussions, scientific conferences, scientific research, workshops, competition. The main idea is to reach out to students from the Faculty of Economics (UNS), as it typically does not deal with EU issues. In that context, it is expected to build JMCE AgriGREEN (IT collaborating platform and two business labs, to conduct two courses and one intensive training course (total 120 participants). In order to create a stronger connection between the experts from agribusiness companies, it is expected to held six workshops where students will gain practical knowledge (60 participants). In order to achieve openness to policymakers and the general public, three panel discussions in cooperation with the MAFWM will be organised to create recommendations for decision-makers in the context of agri-environmental policy. Also, this project includes research in areas crucial to F2F strategy by motivating researchers from different disciplines and different universities (from the EU) to cooperate, and it is expected that three scientific papers be published in highly ranked journals or conferences, as a result of the work on the project. This project will strength the knowledge of EU policies in the field of food production at UNS, foster dialogue through a panel discussion between policy-makers in Serbia and experts from UNS in cooperation with European universities, promote research of EU agricultural policy and its impact on sustainable development of Serbia's agri-food sector and spread knowledge about new CAP reform and F2F strategy to the broader society.