Doc. Ing. Miloš Ulman, PhD. from the Department of Information Technologies (DIT) at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Science Prague, (FEM CZU) participated in the second Project Meeting of the Horizon Europe project Maximizing the CO-benefits of agricultural Digitalization through conducive digital ECoSystems (CODECS), which took place in a hybrid form at the Spanish University of Almería on 12-14 December 2023.

CODECS was launched on 1 October 2022 and the main objective of this meeting, more than a year after its launch, was to provide an overview of its progress and to analyse the upcoming steps. The event also contributed to networking and strengthening cooperation between consortium partners.

The meeting started with a speech by Angela Guarino from the European Research Executive Agency (REA), who highlighted the key role of digital agriculture in promoting systemic change towards sustainability.

A highlight of the programme was a visit to the demonstration farm at the University of Almeria, showing the integration of digital technologies into production facilities and experimental workplaces. The participants of the tour learned practical experiences in the use of digital technologies.

Dr. Ulman briefed the participants on the work plan for the development of digital tools to assess the impact of digitalisation in agriculture. A team of researchers from DIT FEM is responsible for the work related to the development of the tools and for the submission of the official report in September 2024. They are also involved in the collection and processing of data to assess the economic benefits of digitisation and mapping of digitisation processes on model farms.