KB programmes 2024 approved

The WUR Management Board approved the activity plans for the Knowledge Base programmes Data Driven & High Tech (KB-38) and the Wageningen Modelling Group (KB-33) for 2024. 2024 Is the last year for these KB programmes, since the programmes follow the heartbeat of the WUR strategy period.

KB-38 consists of the following projects:

  1. Smart Data in food & health; project leads are Robbert Robbemond and Lorijn van Rooijen.
  2. Empowering explainable AI (in arable and animal farming); project leads are Claudia Kamphuis and Corne Kempenaar.
  3. Sensing approaches for food value chains; project leads are Aneesh Chauhan and Rick van der Zedde
  4. Robotics in agrifood; project leads are Ard Nieuwenhuizen and Aneesh Chauhan
  5. High-tech solutions for natural resource conservation; project leads are Arun Pratihast and Kelly Rijswijk
  6. Knowledge Management; project lead tba
  7. Small Innovative Projects (SIPs); project lead is Bas van der Velden.

KB-33 consists of the following tasks:

  1. Implementing and updating existing building blocks
  2. Integrated development and application of WUR models
  3. Promotion of model quality and guidelines / labels
  4. Building a WUR-wide modelling community
  5. Value Creation with models
  6. Model stewardship
  7. Coordination and communication

If you want to know all the details, you can contact Jene van der Heide.