New Agriculture, New Generation

New Agriculture New Generation (NANG) creates career and entrepreneurship opportunities for youth in the Agrifood sector in Greece. Since 2018, NANG has empowered more than 31.000 young farmers, producers, entrepreneurs, graduates and other professionals, through its capacity building, entrepreneurship, and regional development programs. 

NANG’s Expertise:

• Design, implement and coordinate entrepreneurship & innovation and capacity building programs in the field of agriculture.
• As an Innovation Broker in the agrifood sector in Greece, able to discover innovative initiatives and solutions adapted to the needs of farmers and communities.
• Liaison with stakeholders, experts, specialized professionals & knowledge providers and various actors from the agri-food ecosystem.
• Dissemination/exploitation of the project’s aim and results to our audience with more than 8.200 partners and supporters
• Experience in creating online training tools/platforms

In the Landshift program, NANG links with large network of crowdfunding organizations, showcasing high capacity in supporting the crowdfunding component in the LandShift platform

Role in LandShift

NANG is contributing to the following  work packages and tasks:

• Work package WP1 – Stakeholder engagement and mapping the objectives for strategic land Use (all tasks)
• Work package WP3: Task 3.7: LULUCF socio-economic impact and strategy evaluation
• Work package WP4: Task 4.2: Ingestion of NEB principles into land management solutions
• Work package WP5:
  • Task 5.1: LandShift Virtual Space
  • Task 5.5: Transforming Data Cubes and Living Earths into Knowledge Cubes for seamless solution implementation
• Work package WP6:
  • Task 6.1: Dissemination and outreach activities
  • Task 6.2: Creating synergies with EU relative projects and initiatives and building alliances
  • Task 6.3: Exploitation plan
• Work package WP7 – Project Management (all tasks)

NANG has built a wide network of partners, embracing the entire ecosystem of knowledge, entrepreneurship, and innovation across the agrifood sector in Greece, bringing an extended audience for the dissemination and outreach activities of the project. Additionally, NANG is participating in other EU relative projects so more synergies can be created among the projects and has experience in multi-stakeholder engagement sharing the knowledge with them and building connections among stakeholders & strategies development.

Key People Involved

Dimitrios Voloudakis, Capacity Building Director, [email protected] – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrisvoloudakis/

Kalliopi Karampoiki, Capacity Building manager, [email protected] – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalliopi-k-32900b150/

Mona Dermata, Operations Director , [email protected] – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dermatalemonia/

Sotiris Katselos, Director of Communicatios [email protected] – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sotiris-katselos-86588219/