Prof. Dr. Kawa Nazemi from the Research Center for Applied Informatics plays a crucial role in the FARMWISE EU RIA project, which is revolutionizing the EU's agricultural sector. The project is developing a pioneering decision support system that combines precision agriculture, artificial intelligence and remote sensing to provide farmers and decision makers with insights on water quality, quantity, soil health and nutrient management.
FARMWISE creates a state-of-the-art technological framework that promotes knowledge exchange between scientists, farmers and policy makers. It strengthens existing collaborations and initiates long-term cooperation between different European organizations such as Water4All and Water Europe.
The main objective of the project is to develop AI technologies for a more efficient European water policy and decision-making in the fight against water pollution and climate change. To this end, the FARMWISE consortium brings together leading European researchers from the fields of water, agriculture, climate and AI to ensure the sustainability of water resources and agriculture in Europe.
The impact of FARMWISE will increase interest and collaboration among Quadruple Helix stakeholders, including policy makers, researchers, industry and civil society, for science-based solutions. The project aims to provide farmers and policy makers with local and regional insights on decision support systems to promote data-driven policy decisions in the areas of water, soil and climate.
The technology developed under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Kawa Nazemi, as a central element of the project, seamlessly combines AI methods with interactive visualizations to create innovative visual analytics systems. These enable a comprehensive analysis of the agricultural system, taking various factors into account. An integrated option analysis, supported by AI models, helps to minimize wrong decisions by evaluating measures that have not yet been implemented.
FARMWISE is particularly committed to environmentally friendly practices and applies systems thinking to identify and ideally eliminate factors influencing water, air and land pollution. The sustainable use of environmental resources also plays a key role throughout the project.
The project, which is funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe (Research & Innovation Action - Zero Pollution) framework program, involves a total of 20 partners from 12 countries and is funded with around six million euros.