cAgriLab aims to improve farm management and sustainability decision-making through enhanced data
sharing, integration, and analytics within farms and living labs. Regenerative agriculture practices are
highly location-specific, shaped by local soil conditions, climate, biodiversity, and farming systems. As
a result, transferring knowledge and best practices between farms and and living labs across regions
remains highly challenging. At the same time, the EU Soil Mission foresees the establishment of 100 Soil
Health Living Labs and Lighthouses across Europe by 2030. However, these initiatives and the farmers
who could benefit from them remain largely disconnected. cAgriLab addresses this challenge by creating
a consolidated virtual living lab platform that enables real-time data sharing, collaboration, and
knowledge exchange across farms and living labs in Ireland, Poland, and Finland.
Methodology
CAgriLab combines three core technical components:
• A decentralised Digital Twin platform built on the Asset Administration Shell concept enabling
farms and living labs to create, manage and share digital twins with smart contract-based access
control;
• AI-driven tools using low-cost devices to measure soil health parameters and enable context-
aware discovery of regenerative agriculture best practices across the network;
• Digital Twin Interoperability Framework delivering semantic interoperability through a common
information model based on the Agriculture Information Model (AIM), linked data technologies
and OGC-aligned APIs. The platform is validated through pilots in Poland, Ireland and Finland.
Output
A Decentralised Digital Twin Management Platform, AI Tools for Digital Twin Discovery and Analysis, and
a Digital Twin Interoperability Framework – together they form the CAgriLab Platform, an open, federated
system enabling real-time knowledge sharing and farm-specific sustainability recommendations across
living labs and farms in multiple countries.
Impact
Cross-border collaboration and knowledge exchange between living labs, researchers, and farmers,
localised adoption of regenerative agriculture practices, improved soil health monitoring through
accessible data collection tools, and an open platform scalable to other agricultural contexts -
contributing to the EU Green Deal and the Soil Mission.
What We Can Offer
Expertise in semantic interoperability, dataspace architectures and Digital Twin systems in agriculture,
including AIM standardisation, linked data integration, federated data sharing and interoperable API
design. Practical experience in deploying interoperable Digital Twin systems and AI-enabled
sustainability solutions in agriculture
What We Need
Living labs, lighthouses and farms interested in connecting to a federated knowledge-sharing network,
partners with soil health data or farm management systems, including stakeholders interested in
extending/validating the platform across additional regions and agricultural contexts.
Source: Annual AgData Use Case Summit 2026 booklet.
