NextGenBioPest Joined Forces with Know4Farm!

The Horizon Europe project NextGenBioPest is excited to announce a new collaboration with Know4Farm, a forward-looking Erasmus+ project that supports farmers in acquiring the digital, green, and entrepreneurial skills they need for the agriculture of tomorrow. This partnership unites two complementary efforts working toward the knowledge-based, sustainable transformation of European farming.

NextGenBioPest is developing and integrating innovative, low-impact tools for crop protection — including biological control agents, RNA-based pesticides, green chemicals, and advanced diagnostics — to help reduce dependence on conventional pesticides and support sustainable fruit and vegetable production. Know4Farm empowers farmers through accessible training content, online platforms, and peer learning opportunities, focused on digitalisation, resilience, and smart farm management.

Together, NextGenBioPest and Know4Farm aim to:

• Bring cutting-edge research to the farm gate, translating scientific advances into actionable knowledge for farmers

• Develop training materials and resources around biological pest control, integrated crop protection, and agroecological practices

• Promote farmer-to-farmer learning, using Know4Farm’s open digital tools and knowledge-sharing ecosystem

• Support a new generation of innovative, environmentally aware farmers across Europe

  
  

Our collaboration with Know4Farm helps ensure that the innovations we’re developing don’t stay in the lab, but reach the hands of the people who need them most — farmers. By working together, we can help build practical skills, confidence, and a community around sustainable crop protection.

Through joint activities such as online training modules, webinars, knowledge-sharing forums, and local pilot workshops, the partnership will equip farmers with the tools and information they need to adopt eco-friendly pest management practices in their everyday operations.

This partnership reinforces the shared goal of both projects to support climate-smart agriculture, aligned with the EU’s Green Deal and Farm to Fork Strategy.