Business incubators

Business incubators for Rural Excellence, established across the participating countries — Croatia, Ireland, Slovenia, and Spain — create dynamic and collaborative physical and virtual learning environments. They bring together students, farmers, agripreneurs, teachers, trainers, employers, guidance service providers, mentors, educational and research institutions, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders. 

The incubators support the development of multifunctional agriculture skills and competencies, aligned with digital innovation, climate resilience, and circular economy principles.

The AgriNext Incubators are more than a learning lab and application centre — it is an ecosystem for innovation, entrepreneurship, education-business collaboration, and rural excellence.

The Incubators support the following objectives:

• Offer an established system of continuous exchange between employers, teachers, trainers and guidance service providers, to respond to the skills needed.
• Raise students and learners who are highly skilled, motivated, entrepreneurial, and aware of the importance of C-VET and lifelong learning.
• Establish an interaction between teachers, trainers, mentors from companies, students, and researchers.
• Support individualisation of the learning process.
• Promote rural development & vitality by demonstrating and highlighting the opportunities of multifunctional agriculture.
• Help to increase digital competencies among students and teachers.

Explore the Incubators on the AgriNext Platform and actively engage in discussions.