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Farm&Food hub launched in Garrel

In spring 2023, agma­da­ta launched the Farm&Food Hub in Gar­rel. The new work­ing envi­ron­ment serves as a cre­ative exchange among each oth­er, with research and indus­try, and also enables a prac­ti­cal con­nec­tion to local com­pa­nies. Future work­places have been cre­at­ed in an open co-work­ing space in the coun­try­side, which start-up com­pa­nies can rent at favor­able con­di­tions. This means that they not only become users of the hub, but can active­ly par­tic­i­pate in the ani­mal and food-relat­ed projects that are cre­at­ed there. “The aim of the projects is for farm­ers, pro­duc­ers and con­sumers alike to rec­og­nize the poten­tial that sci­en­tif­ic find­ings hold. Nowhere in Ger­many are there bet­ter con­di­tions for such a con­vert­er sta­tion between sci­ence and prac­tice. After all, Old­en­burg­er Mün­ster­land and the neigh­bor­ing regions are the cen­ter of live­stock and food pro­duc­tion with com­plex pro­duc­tion process­es and all the asso­ci­at­ed chal­lenges,” says agma­da­ta Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Voß­mann.

The projects are tech­no­log­i­cal­ly under­pinned by a dig­i­tal plat­form that agma­da­ta is imple­ment­ing under the name 360°efood. It is used for fact-based, secure dig­i­tal col­lab­o­ra­tion among all stake­hold­ers in pub­lic spaces and enables indus­try-spe­cif­ic infor­ma­tion exchange based on Fraunhofer’s Indus­tri­al Data Spaces (IDS). agma­da­ta is a mem­ber of the Inter­na­tion­al Data Spaces Asso­ci­a­tion, where it is dri­ving the Farm & Food IDS archi­tec­ture and real­iz­ing a wide vari­ety of use cas­es with 360°efood, from ani­mal pro­duc­tion to food on the plate. The goal is clear­ly set: “Every­thing we do must ulti­mate­ly bring a sus­tain­able ben­e­fit, includ­ing an eco­nom­ic one, and we must be able to clear­ly prove this with hard facts.”

The build­ing is also sus­tain­able

For the con­cept of the build­ing, Voß­mann found inspi­ra­tion in Aus­tria, more pre­cise­ly in Lus­te­nau in Vorarl­berg. This is where the “Office Build­ing 2226” is locat­ed, which does not require any heat­ing, ven­ti­la­tion or cool­ing at all and yet always keeps the indoor cli­mate at a com­fort­able tem­per­a­ture of between 22 and 26 degrees. In the new office octa­gon in Gar­rel, which is cur­rent­ly being built on a foot­print of 20x20 m, the thick exte­ri­or walls also ensure that the indoor cli­mate is com­plete­ly decou­pled from the out­door cli­mate. “Thus, the heat out­put of the peo­ple and equip­ment work­ing there, as well as intel­li­gent ven­ti­la­tion, are com­plete­ly suf­fi­cient to achieve the desired tem­per­a­ture. It does­n’t get any more sus­tain­able than this,” says the resource­ful entre­pre­neur, who has nev­er­the­less pro­vid­ed an intel­li­gent back­up sys­tem for extreme cli­mate sit­u­a­tions.