SOcial Farming - Innovative Agriculture

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Date of latest update: 2023-11-16

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Description (EN):

Social Farming - the practice of offering activity, and in some cases, work experience on family farms and crofts as a form of social support service - is emerging in parts of Europe, and is commonplace in less formalised contexts in many rurla areas. Farming is a key industry within the NPA area and SoFIA seeks to increase farm diversity, by using farms as an innovative public service delivery mechanism. The project is aimed at people with additional support needs in remote and rural areas and will?provide local access to beneficial outdoor activities. This preparatory project: * seeks evidence of the scope and extent of social farming and other similar diversification (e.g. green gyms, education) within the NPA region. * seeks project partners across the NPA region, including farming organisations, and health and care services providers. * will define the target groups and the potential for impact on, in particular, disadvantaged young people, women and indigenous groups.[CP1] Groups might include disabled adults, autistic chldren, people with mental helath problems. * develop a technological approach for impact measurement, with a focus on mental health and well-being. * will conduct an evaluation of social farming in the NPA area. * will establish whether innovation (priority Axis 1) or entrepreneurship (priority Axis 2) is the best focus. * will identify the service delivery agencies and stakeholders best suited for involvement in the main project. * will prepare a main project application. A main project would seek to co-ordinate activity at a transnational level to identify best practice, produce a toolkit to assist remote and rural farms and crofts to set up Social Farming enterprises and establish an evidence base of health and wellbeing impacts on individuals, by using technology to collect information, as well as the wider employment and community impacts.

Website: http://www.interreg-npa.eu/

Thematic information

Social inclusion and equal opportunities Rural and peripheral development Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Specific Objective: Increased innovation within public service provision in remote, sparsely populated areas

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Ulster University

Department: School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Built Engineering

Address: Northland Road -, BT48 7JL Londonderry, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ulster.ac.uk

Total budget: EUR 24 071.41

ERDF budget: EUR 15 646.42

Rural Area Partnership in Derry Ltd

Name: Rural Area Partnership in Derry Ltd

Department: Rural Development

Address: Foreglen Road 2, BT47 3TP Killaloo, Derry-Londonderry, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rapidni.com

Total budget: EUR 8 450.00

ERDF budget: EUR 5 492.50

Donegal Local Development Company

Name: Donegal Local Development Company

Department: Rural Development

Address: Millennium Court, Pearse Road 1Letterkenny, Co Donegal, Ireland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.dldc.org

Total budget: EUR 2 725.00

ERDF budget: EUR 1 771.25

Inishowen Development Partnership

Name: Inishowen Development Partnership

Department: Rural Development

Address: Pound Street Business ParkCarndonagh Co Donegal, Ireland

Legal status: public

Website: http://Inishowen.ie

Total budget: EUR 2 725.00

ERDF budget: EUR 1 771.25

Scottish Crofting Federation

Name: Scottish Crofting Federation

Address: Kyle Industrial Estate Unit 26, IV40 8AX Kyle of Lochslsh, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.crofting.org

Total budget: EUR 7 018.30

ERDF budget: EUR 4 561.90

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Rural Area Partnership in Derry Ltd

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Donegal Local Development Company

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Inishowen Development Partnership

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Scottish Crofting Federation

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Ulster University

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Summary

Project name (EN): SOcial Farming - Innovative Agriculture

Project acronym: SoFIA

Project start date: 2018-06-01

Project end date: 2018-11-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 44 989.71

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 29 243.31

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 65.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 29 243.31.

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-02

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

152 / 152 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

779 / 779 (100%)

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