The scenarios for Greece until 2035 and other investment scenarios
Innovative businesses, CEOs of large food companies, government representatives and members of educational-research institutions met INNOVEIT – EIT Open Day Greece – “From Innovation to Impact – Strengthening Europe’s Future”in the framework of BEYOND. They discussed solutions for food work, digitization of services for the benefit of the citizen and investment markets based on four scenarios for Greece.
Opening the event, the co-founder of Industry Disruptors Game Changers (ID-GC) and Representative of the EIT Food Hub in Greece, Michalis Stagos, referred to the added value that INNOVEIT’s event has for BEYOND, which wins, as he pointed out, “the bet of naturalization as an international exhibition in Southeast Europe, the Middle East and North Africa”. “It is important that dynamic parallel events take place where the triangle of knowledge – but with a quadruple helix – meets and essentially begins to produce the interaction that we desire and that every business ecosystem wants to grow and develop”, he underlined.
On her part, Begoña Pérez-Villarrealdirector of the EIT Food CLC South, said: “The theme of the EIT Open Day Greece contains a key message: Research and innovation must have impact. This is what changes things.” He also noted regarding the actions of EIT Food that: “We have big ahead of us challenges. A few years ago we could not have imagined that it would there is an issue of food security and now we realize that this issue does not only concern Africa, as Covid-19 and war in Ukraine differentiated the situation. debt but to prioritize food sufficiency with sustainable agri-food systems”.
Speaking at the event, the Deputy Minister of Development & Investment, Christos Dimas, highlighted the research and development opportunity of the Recovery Fund and said that “the sectors that are being developed are at the heart of the government’s policies. The funds available in this portfolio exceed 500 million euros”. He even referred to the action of the Elevate Greece platform saying that “around 700 startups active in over 20 sectors have registered and there are 6,000 employees”.
In his presentation, the Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Food, Giorgos Stylios, said that the agri-food sector is in a period of transition facing challenges such as changes in the buying habits of societies, cost pressures and the climate crisis. As he analyzed, new technologies can contribute to the sector fulfilling its social role, which is to ensure the food industry and the nutrition of the population. In this direction, the Ministry has actions of 60 million euros for the development of new products, processes and technologies, while to increase the productivity and sustainability of agriculture, 215 projects have been included in 12 Regions.
In his intervention, Yannis Mastrogeorgiou, Specialist Secretary of Long-Term Planning, emphasized that the next 10 years “we will experience as many changes at the global level as the humanity the previous 100 and this will come from the technology. The technology that is an embryo of sweeping changes in business and society”. He added that the skills of tomorrow will it is, among other things, empathy and imagination that in the past they were called soft skills, because they separate the human from the machines and added that investment in lifelong learning is needed.
In the study of the Special Secretariat for Long-Term Planning (Foresight) on the future of the innovation environment in Greece until 2035, Mr. Haris Lambropoulos made a special report, President of the Hellenic Development Investment Bank SA (EATE), and proceeded to establish that the “Greek ecosystem it has now become flesh and blood. It matures, it enlarges, it yields, it has to demonstrate successful exits – divestments, liquidations – unicorns and soonicorns and is gaining international appeal.” Her four scenarios study (anchored ark, overgrown lighthouse, rocking raft and misty fort) in their future profiles of domestic start-ups and for the investment markets, which depending on the scenario, it can arise in the circular economy, sustainable development, green energy, augmented reality, etc.
In the same context, Athanasios Kyriazis, Secretary General of Research and Innovation, announced the continuation of the action “Research – Create – Innovate”: “We believe that it will be given to him green light until the end of November where we will have 60 million euros for businesses. Soon after – by the end of the year – it will let’s take the second action which will be about cooperation Universities, research centers, general research structures with businesses that will be in the range of 120-180 million”.
Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Secretary General of Information Systems, referred to the digital transformation of public services in favor of the citizen: “The codes TAXISNET offers access to a range of public services, because otherwise we would be led to the phenomenon where every carrier that had own applications with their own way of access and different codes that the citizen should know for each application”.
The dynamics of the agri-food sector
In the second part of INNOVEIT – EIT Open Day Greece, the dynamics of its sector were highlighted agri-food and the stability of the agri-food system due to the climate crisis.
In the need to prevail holistic model of a rural Thomas Bartzanas, deputy, was mentioned Professor at the Agricultural University of Athens and presented the dominant trends which are: precision agriculture applications, h growing food under controlled conditions (either in greenhouses, or in closed conditions), the use of robotic machinery, the use sensors and in the livestock sector, the use of technology blockchain, environmental nuisance assessment and indicators environmental sustainability.
In the new needs created by the climate crisis, the contingencies to the supply of the market and the solutions that can be technology offers, said the CEO of of Central Markets and Fisheries (OKAA), Apostolos Apostolakos, while again sounding the alarm about food waste from the households: “Due to failure in quantities and error calculation of the expiry date, amounts of food are thrown away’.
Key conclusions
One of the main conclusions of the event was that in order to effectively operate every industry, whether it concerns products or services, innovative technologies need to be integrated and to synergies are enhanced. Characteristically, its CEO DELTA, Christos Tsolkas, said: “To face them today’s challenges, DELTA is becoming even more extroverted, seeking to develop a more collaborative working model, investing in synergies with Universities, start-ups and commercial partners, with an absolute focus on sustainable development”.
The event took place in the “Olympia” hall, at “Ioannis Vellidis Conference Center” and Nikos participated Giannoulidis, Director of EIT EIT Urban Mobility, Konstantinos Georgoulias, Dr., Director of the Regional Innovation System (RIS) and EU affairs, EIT Manufacturing, George Megas, Coordinator of EIT Health Hub Greece, ECB, Stamatis Mitropoulos, Coordinator and Representative in Greece and Cyprus, Thanos Mavros, EY Company, Consumer Leader in Southeast Europe, Marios Koniaris, RIS3 Coordinator for the agro-food chain – Directorate of International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agri-Food Chain Coordinator – International Division of Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Antonios Vezyroglou, Founder and CEO, Vezyroglou Farm, Elena Koukouna, Head of sustainability services, Smart Agro Hub, Fotis Hatzipapadopoulos, Director, SmartAgroHub, Notis Argiriou, Professor at the University of the Aegean, George Arsenos, Professor of Veterinary Medicine Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Sonia Musavere, Head of Communications of the pharmaceutical company Bayer, Machi Symeonidou, Managing Director, AgroApps, George Zanakis, Marketing & Development Director, Corteva Agriscience, Hellas, Vaia Piteli, Technology Transfer Consultant, PRAXI Network, Thanos Karvounis, SmartAgroHub, Michalis Dritsas, Director of the Office of the Deputy Minister of Development and Investments, Stavros Mantzanakis, Head of Innovation, Public & of International Projects, Dimitrios Tzovaras, President of E.K.E.T.A., Antonis Cassano, Director of Business Development at Uni Systems, Nikos Lambrogeorgos, Client Executive, Cisco, Alexandros Minas, Principal Director and head of its new Technology Center Accenture, Vasilios Gogolidis, General Secretariat Executive of Research and Innovation, Tassos Vassiliadis, Founder of the Park JOIST Innovation and President of the Development Institute of Entrepreneurship and Federico Menna, Head of Staff & Operations of EIT Digital and representatives of start-ups.
The conference was co-organized by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), the Industry Disruptors Game Changers and the Agricultural University of Athens (GAA).
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