The general objective of the project is the creation of a new frame of cooperation between islands, for innovation in agriculture, by the mean of a network organizing at regional and transnational levels the public and private innovation capacities, within “poles of competencies”. The AGRISLES NETWORK will mobilize these “poles of competencies” for concrete actions, planned in a coordinated manner in the frame of the implementation of regional policies.

This is possible with the establishment of new relationships between regional public authorities and economical stakeholders of the island agricultural and rural world (the farmers and their economical and technical groupings, training centres, popularizing centres, research, experimentation centres, state services, regional administration, local authorities, …), as well at the regional level as at the trans-island level, in order to in order to bring together the whole of the diversified but complementary competencies existing in the inter-island cooperation area, inside the MED area.

The operational objectives of the project are to unable the partners :

• - to better assess altogether the strategic fields for innovation in agriculture, with a prospective vision (phase 3.1),
• - to identify the good “innovation tools”, the best practices stemming from the experiences of each partner (phase 3.2),
• - elaborate together an innovation methodology for agriculture in the islands, based on the strengthening of strategic cooperation between public authorities and economic stakeholder (phase 4.1),
• - to test this method in each island, on a key-sector for each one, with pilot project stressing on one or several innovation tools, depending on the needs of each partner (phase 4.2),
• - to define a strategy of implementation of this methodology, through coordinated programming of concrete actions in the frame of the regional policies, as a first step (phase 5.1),
• - to built the continuation of their cooperation in the frame of the transnational network of poles of competencies for innovation in agriculture in the island regions (phase 5.2),
• - to communicate widely the results of the project at the regional and transnational levels.