Each of the six Stakeholder Workshops will be ‘hosted’ in one of the eight case studies home countries, during the four-year project. They are organised to support the project in showcasing and sharing its results, and importantly to seek input and possible collaborations from stakeholders. 

The first workshop focuses on South Africa, it is comprised of Internal workshop which will take place from 30^th November 2020 until 1^st December 2020 and the External stakeholder workshop which will take place on 9^th December 2020. 

This workshop will be followed by the External stakeholder workshop which will take place on 9th December 2020. For the first Internal Project stakeholder workshop, South Africa has been selected as the theme country. Therefore, planned discussions will focus on the related food security case study to incentivize a wider local participation.   

Workshop objectives    

• Explore eight case studies objectives and how they are going to work.   
• Identify the communalities across the four sectors: users’ challenges, requirements, methodologies.   
• Foster connections and synergies across the project and case studies.   
• Introduce the concept of Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI).   
• Collect the requirements of the users   
• Show case state of the project to engage with the stakeholders.   
• Identify lessons learned from 2020 and COVID-19.   

Workshop draft agenda