TALLHEDA at EU-CONEXUS 2026!

On 11 June 2026, Smart Agro Hub represented the TALLHEDA project at the EU-CONEXUS Research Conference 2026, held in Athens. The conference brought together academics, researchers, and stakeholders from across Europe to exchange knowledge and foster collaborations aimed at addressing contemporary societal and environmental challenges.

Hosted by the Agricultural University of Athens, the EU-CONEXUS Conference 2026 focused on the challenges faced by communities in urban and semi-urban coastal regions, examining the impact of those challenges on society, highlighting innovative solutions offered by the scientific community, and exploring how policy can adopt and scale those solutions. Among the thematic areas prominently featured was soil degradation — a challenge with direct relevance to digital agriculture, food security, and the sustainable land management frameworks at the heart of TALLHEDA's research agenda.

EU-CONEXUS is a transnational European higher education and research institution for Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability, bringing together nine partner universities: La Rochelle Université, the Agricultural University of Athens, the Catholic University of Valencia, Klaipeda University, the University of Zadar, the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, South East Technological University, the University of Rostock, and Frederick University. The conference provided a high-profile platform for cross-institutional knowledge exchange at the intersection of science, policy, and societal impact — an environment well suited to TALLHEDA's ambitions for visibility and partnership development.

Smart Agro Hub's participation at the event positioned TALLHEDA within one of Europe's most active Higher Education alliance networks, showcasing the project's work on digital agriculture skills, citizen science, and HEI capacity building to an audience of researchers and university representatives from across the continent. The conference included sessions focused on how European University Alliances organise their research activities, leverage the research infrastructures of their member institutions, and develop collaborations with societal, institutional, and regional stakeholders — a framing that maps directly onto TALLHEDA's own mission of building lasting alliances between leading and widening research institutions in digital agriculture.

TALLHEDA's presence at EU-CONEXUS 2026 reflects Smart Agro Hub's strategic approach to dissemination: reaching beyond the immediate agri-food research community to engage with the broader European Higher Education ecosystem, and demonstrating that the skills, frameworks, and partnerships developed within the project have relevance and transferability well beyond its formal consortium boundaries.