Digi4Live is a Horizon Europe project spanning three years, from January 2024 to July 2028. Comprising 16 partners from 9 countries, Digi4Lives’s goal is to help the European livestock sector leverage digital technologies and data to benefit farmers and food and technology businesses and smoothen public administration.
In alignment with the objectives of the European Green Deal, which sets forth stringent animal welfare standards and targets for reducing nutrient losses and antimicrobial usage by 2030, the Digi4Live project aims to contribute towards achieving these goals. The ambition of Digi4Live is to enable a wider development and exploitation of digital technologies and existing, repurposed and new data from multiple sources for all main livestock species representing over 35% of the value of the output of EU agriculture.
Digi4Live is committed to seizing this momentum to drive forward progress in livestock tracking, tracing, and digital technologies. Through the development of more than 50 data-driven solutions and active engagement with over 500 stakeholders, we aim to catalyze the widespread adoption of digital innovations in livestock management.
Digi4Live will simplify livestock data sharing, focusing on trust, cost, and legal factors. It will explore various data storage solutions and engage stakeholders to implement livestock tracking technology efficiently while addressing legal concerns.
Digi4Live aims to enhance sustainable livestock production by adapting breeding schemes, promoting phenomics tools, and utilizing sensors for automated welfare monitoring and labelling.
Six innovative digitalization concepts (case studies)
The case studies will engage a diverse range of participants across Europe, presenting significant opportunities for scalability. This involves highlighting benefits tailored to farmers, including those operating small to medium-sized farms. With case studies taking place in 8 countries, Digi4Live aims to furnish proof regarding the efficacy of digital technologies in addressing emerging animal welfare, environmental, and breeding objectives. Additionally, it will facilitate enhanced traceability, afford continuous and cost-effective monitoring of compliance and impact assessments, and explore the utility of various data sources and technologies in assessing sustainability.
ICAR Role
ICAR participates as a partner in the Digi4Life and as Task Leader in the Task 6.3 (Approaches towards enabling data standardisation & harmonisation)
The Tasks specify the characteristics of a harmonized and standardised solution for livestock tracking technologies by using stock taking results of WP2 as a background and by carrying out 2 TEP workshops to gather, identify and suggest mitigation measures to address the challenges identified in earlier stages of the project concerning the development and use of datadriven
livestock tracking technologies. (ICAR, AUA, KUL). Evaluate the potential to enable smooth standardisation. For example, the evaluation of measurement principles and data quality, constructing of data dictionaries and API development. Possibilities for not only animal management and breeding but also upstream processors will be explored.
Prepare a roadmap up for improved harmonisation and standardisation of livestock tracking data
Newsletter
The first issue of the Digi4Life Newsletter has been prepared and made available here