HarvRESt Final Event: Scaling Renewable Energy Solutions for European Farming

After three years of research and demonstration across Europe, HarvRESt will present its full set of results in Brussels — and show how they can support the deployment and scaling of renewable energy in European agriculture, well beyond the project's lifetime.

📅 Thursday, 3 December 2026 | 13:00–19:00 (CET) | 📍 Brussels, Belgium | Free to attend

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The HarvRESt consortium invites farmers, advisors, researchers, energy developers and policymakers to its Final Event in Brussels. Over an afternoon of presentations, round tables and networking, the project will demonstrate a simple but important message: renewable energy sources can be integrated into agriculture without compromising food production.

Getting there takes more than technology. HarvRESt's holistic approach combines technical solutions with viable business models and genuine stakeholder engagement, supported by data-driven tools that enable better decision-making for farmers, advisors and policymakers alike. The event will discuss how these pieces fit together in practice, and to what extent the results — tested in Use Cases in Spain, Denmark, Italy and Norway — are replicable and scalable across the EU.

The afternoon is designed to connect research, practice and policy. Alongside the presentation of the project's key results, tools and lessons from the pilots, the programme features a keynote speech, a round table with the Use Cases, a session with sister projects on complementary approaches and future synergies, and a closing policy round table asking a deliberately open question: what does Europe need next?

Programme at a Glance

Programme subject to adjustments.

13:00-14:00 Welcome lunch

14:00 – 14:15 | Key results from HarvRESt: tools, methods and lessons from the pilots 

Roberto Lázaro (CIRCE)

14:15 – 14:30 | Key note speech:  New Strategic Approach to R&I for agriculture, forestry, rural areas and food systems

May Hobeika (EC) 

14:30 – 15:15 |Roundtable: Policy — what does Europe need next? 

▪️DG AGRI: May Hobeika
▪️HEC Paris: Fernando Diaz
▪️TBC
 
Moderator: CKIC Laurène Lebelt

15:15 – 15:30 | Best practices and solutions for agriculture and energy 

Stelios Dritsas (CKIC)

15:30 – 16:15 | Sister projects session: complementary approaches and future synergies 

▪️AgEnRES
▪️BioInspire
▪️Value4farm (TBC) 

Moderator: Alba Granados (WR) 

16:15 – 16:45 | Coffee break

16:45 – 17:00 | Business models: opportunities and challenges 

Nicola Stenico (EnG)

17:00 – 17:45 | Round table: What we learnt from the use cases: from Spain, Denmark, Italy and Norway to EU-wide replication 

▪️SORIGUE 
▪️Viñas del Vero - Ricardo Fernández
▪️ConTerra - Holger Nehrmdahl
▪️CONFAGRICOLTURA/TECNOALIMENTI   
▪️GGE 

Moderator: Ana Robles (BETA)

17:45 – 18:00 | Beyond 2026: Call 2027 funding opportunities

Dietter Brigita (REA)

18:00-19:00 | Networking

End of final event