WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY (WU)

Location: Wageningen, NL

Role in the project:

Colleagues of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group participate in BrightSpace.

WU contributes to several working packages in the BrightSpace project. The main contribution will be in two areas:

WU contributes to developing indicators of the Just Operating Space (JOS) related to the income and employment domains at the NUTS2 level, and by advancing a dynamic spatial microsimulation model that allows projecting region-specific effects of various EU agricultural policies.
WU contributes to the identification of promising technologies relevant for the Green Deal in agriculture, for instance Gene technologies and organic farming. With the collection of field-level data, and the analysis of the economics of different production technologies in agriculture, WU will contribute to the refinement of MAGNET, a global CGE model for long-term projections and scenario analysis (magnet-model.netlify.app).

Description:

Wageningen university is part of Wageningen University & Research and is the only university in the Netherlands to focus specifically on the theme ‘healthy food and living environment’. WUR’s mission is ‘To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life’.
The strength of Wageningen University & Research lies in its ability to join the forces of specialised research institutes and the university. It also lies in the combined efforts of the various fields of natural and social sciences. This union of expertise leads to scientific breakthroughs that can quickly be put into practice and be incorporated into education. This is the Wageningen Approach. Collaboration with other parties such as government, business and NGOs is indispensable. This is in line with the Finding Answers Together ambition.
The scientific quality of Wageningen University & Research is affirmed by the prominent position we occupy in international rankings and citation indexes.

BrightSpace project information on the partner’s website in English or in national language: