DIPOL Project

We received our evaluations from the Ministry on DIPOL project implementation results. Both of the evaluation reports coming from independent external experts graded the project with 95/100 points, which makes us very proud, and makes this project a great success!

More importantly, the DIPOL project was used as a platform to engage young researchers and provide the sustainability for research activities in digital transformation in the domain of agriculture and food value chain.

During the project, there was one BSc thesis and four MSc thesis finished. Also, two of the students enrolled in PhD studies, one of which won the PhD stipend from the Ministry of Science. The project research resulted in five publications at scientific-technical conferences and one publication in a scientific journal (SCI level).

A for the sustainability, we participated in writing of various project applications, several of which have been approved. H2020 DEMETER, H2020 TRACEWINDU, H2020 AIMHIGH and Erasmus+ VIRAL were direct result of partnership development and sustainability activities on the project.

During the project, we engaged several industry partners and collaborated with them in the implementation of field pilots: 13. jul Plantaže (precision viticulture and precision agriculture), Naše voće (precision agriculture), Vinarija Rajković (precision viticulture), Piletina Radinović (Poultry farm), and Mesopromet Franca (polutry farming).

The multifunctional regional EXPO event SmAGTech, which is realized within the project: “Vitalization of the relevance of information and communication technologies (ICT) in agriculture” (acronym VIRAL “- http://viralerasmus.org/en/home/) will be held through a virtual platform 16-17 November 2021.

EXPO event SmAGTech, the first in the field of agriculture in our region, will connect participants in the field of agriculture and information technology in order to support beneficiary countries – Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina in achieving more successful cooperation between academic and business entities in this field. More info about the VIRAL project available here.

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Day 2

The virtual event “DIPOL Workshop: Digitalization in agriculture and food supply chain” organized by Faculty for Information Systems and and FoodHub Center of Excellence at the UDG was attended by over 50 visitors. The event closed on 15 of October. It was mainly the students who followed the presentations using Moodle LMS platform. This was the final event done in the context of DIPOL project. We wanted to thank to all of the presenters and attendees for the success of this workshop.

A new weather service based on aggregation of weather data from multiple sources and it is offered as a demo for farmers in Montenegro. This work was done in the context of DIPOL project and master thesis work of mr Balsa Lazarevic. The service allows for registration and custom selection of locations. This web/mobile app provides information on current weather data and forecasting data for pre-selected locations. This software is released as open source and will be made available for others to use and customize. Check the service at the following link.

A workshop on Digitalization of Agriculure and Food Supply Chain is organized by UDG with support of FoodHUB Centre of Excellence. This event is organized within DIPOL project and the presentations and lectures will be given by the eminent experts from Europe. Due to COVID19 pandemic, the workshop is organized as a virtual online event. If you want to access to the materials please fill in the registration form at the bottom of this page.

Keynote Speakers

• Liisa Hakola, VTT, Finland
• Antonio Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain
• Mirko Presser, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Branimir Rakić, OriginTrail, Slovenia

Agenda and Registration

The AGENDA for the event is available at the following link.

Please click on the form below to register:

Moodle LMS Platform

Mr. Stevan Cakic from UDG, participated in the Montenegrin event organized under European Researchers’ Night 2021 on September . This was a 12-hour virtual event and Mr Cakic gave a presentation on his research work at UDG that featured the activities and his participation in DEMETER project. The presentation discussed digital transformation in agriculture and described ongoing project activities at UDG. The presentation can be seen on YouTube, here.

Happening now! Students and researchers from UDG are attending presentations at the IoT Week 2021 Online Event. Our partners from the H2020 DEMETER project are presenting and taking part in a very interesting discussion on Digital Agriculture. More information about the event is available at the following link.

UDG is taking part in Summer School of Science organized by PRONA, August 10-15, 2021. UDG professors and researchers will be talking about digital transformation and precision agriculture. The talk will cover IT megatrends, their role in digital transformation with a focus on agriculture and food value chain. We will also present some of the projects in this field currently implemented in Montenegro by UDG and its partners. The results of DIPOL project will be discussed and presented to the audience.

DIPOL partner organizations representatives met with the external experts /Advisor board today. The meeting was attended by Ms Liisa Hakola , prof. Antonio Skarmeta, prof. Mirko Presser, Mr Branimir Rakić, Ms. Svjetlana Krco and prof. Tomo Popovic. The agenda included project status review, discussion of project results and the plans to organize a Workshop with panel discussion in September. The discussion included brief introduction to all of the current project resulted from the partnership development.