From June 22nd to 26th, a large diversity of participants was able to participate and to create new connexions for their R&D projects. More than 210 people participated in the annual PIC Meeting, the most important Cluster event for the plant production industry in Europe.

Personal chat between participants for networking purposes was possible at every session of the week through a visio conference tool. More interactions happened during the “Search for Partners sessions” and the two workshops on “Uses of Plant Ingredients” and “AgTech in Bio Tech”.  

This event was targeting Plant clusters but some conferences also integrated topics of interest for all the clusters. Among the 28 speakers, some of them discussed about Digital Innovation Hubs, Smart Specialisation Strategies partnerships and Cascade funding management.  

For the concrete part and more sectorial exchanges, each day was concluded with a presentation of 2 stakeholders: Research and Academics, Urban farming, Valorisation of Plants and Biocontrol.

The remote event format provided thepossibility to distribute the events along the week, and provided more flexibility to the speakers (CTA, Smart Agri Hubs, DG Agri, Minalogic, ASOI, Wagralim and Flanders Foods) but also to participants who were free to select the most relevant program to them.  

Finally, a side-event was included to the PIC Week Agenda, in collaboration with the TRACK project. On the 26th of June, a webinar on Digital solutions was proposed to all the participants. All the partners of this project and several SMEs were participating to the overall event.

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