On 18th of November, 2025 Prof. Eiji Morimoto – ISPA Country Representative for Japan – has received Prof. Gabor Milics – ISPA Country Representative for Hungary – at KOBE University, Japan. The purpose of the visit was to enhance the friendship between the two representatives who last met at 15th ECPA conference in Barcelona. The meeting was very fruitful: in the first part Prof. Eiji Morimoto and Prof. Itoh Hiromichi have introduced the ongoing research work at Graduate School of Agricultural Science / Department of Agricultural Engineering and Socio-Economics, in the second part of the meeting experience on conference organization was exchanged as Prof. Milics has been organizing 13th ECPA in Budapest, 2021, and Prof. Morimoto will be the conference chair of 12th ACPA (https://smartconf.jp/content/acpa12/).   

The AGRITECH project held its kick-off meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece. Marcel Ionescu, ISPA Country Representative for Romania, and Gabor Milics, ISPA Country Representative for Hungary, participated in the meeting and engaged in collaborative discussions. Both represent partner institutions within the project consortium.   As an associated partner of the AGRITECH project - "Alliance for Innovative Learning Environment in Advanced Agriculture through Technology and Management" (ERASMUS-EDU-2024-PI-ALL-INNO), ISPA is supporting the development of the new “AgriTech Manager” role - a key professional leading the digital and green transition in agriculture.  We invite agri-businesses, researchers, educators, technology providers, and policymakers to contribute their insights by completing a short questionnaire. Your input will directly inform future training programs and the formal recognition of this role in EU frameworks such as ESCO., the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations classification, official tool of the European Commission.   Please complete the survey by 6 June 2025.  The survey is available in the following languages:    English  Greek  Hungarian  Romanian  Czech  Italian   

We would like to let you know that AGRITECH project is smoothly going on.  ISPA is an associated partner of the AGRITECH project - "Alliance for Innovative Learning Environment in Advanced Agriculture through Technology and Management" (ERASMUS-EDU-2024-PI-ALL-INNO),    The project's second general meeting was organized in Gödöllő, Hungary, where the ISPA Country Representative from Romania, Marcel Ionescu, and the ISPA Country Representative from Hungary, Prof. Gabor Milics, have met. Both Country Representative are project partner/associated partner with their institutions (AgriCloud from Romania and MATE - Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sceinces), so this is a fruitful collaboration with ISPA connections.