As a recognized provider of training in rural development, we offer you a variety of advanced and further training measures, information events and further training courses, which are recognized within the framework of the ÖPUL program, with our diverse and comprehensive expert knowledge. Our experts cover a wide range of topics, from cereals and variety evaluation, plant health and plant nutrition, soil, agricultural inputs and their use for sustainable innovative management to animal health and food and feed safety.

The educational offer of our AGES Academy on Rural Development is still young and is constantly being expanded in cooperation with other educational providers and partners - first and foremost the Rural Training Institutes (LFIs).

In the past years, AGES field days could be implemented in presence as well as in an online format.

Together with our cooperation partners, soil compartments and soil discs for farmers suitable for practical use as well as a soil compartment learning app have been implemented.

Here you can find the documents

In 2017, 20 cooperation partners joined forces to form the "Dialogue with Society" education cluster on the initiative of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Tourism (BMLRT). The common goal of the education cluster is to bring the topics of agriculture, environment and nutrition closer to society - in particular to educators, journalists and consumers. As AGES we are allowed to participate in several projects.

Here you can find all projects as well as information material on many topics.

Within the framework of the education cluster, the project "Landwirt|schaf(f)t|Wissen" was implemented. Through target group specific information and educational materials, a better understanding of agricultural production is to be created. Thus, teaching materials for primary and secondary level I as well as folders for consumers were realized.

The core objective of the digitization cluster, which ran from 2020-2022, was to make digitization usable for Austrian farms. To this end, more than 20 organizations from the agricultural sector worked on technological, ecological and legal topics as well as approaches from the perspective of agricultural knowledge transfer in four pilot projects and took the first steps toward implementation. Specifically, a network of demonstration farms for digital innovations was established with the "Innovation Farm". In addition, the work focused on the increased use of GIS technologies in agricultural advice, the clarification of legal framework conditions and the ecological effects of digital technologies. AGES was involved in the simplification of consulting and farm management (subproject III) as well as in the conception of a simplified assessment of environmental impacts (subproject V).

Based on the results of the aforementioned projects and in order to take current developments into account (use of AI-supported systems in agriculture, AI-supported analysis of agricultural data), a further digitisation initiative was launched with this project.

AGES is involved in the "KIIWI" (artificial intelligence in knowledge transfer) sub-project within the overall project. KIIWI focuses on the topic of "digital consulting tools", which are used to proactively shape the fundamental changes in agricultural knowledge transfer through digitalisation, AI, etc. 

AGES is responsible for adapting the official plant protection product register (PSM register) to the requirements of new technologies. The PSM Register is a publicly accessible advisory tool and one of the most important sources of information on the approval of a PSM (start and end of approval, active ingredients and active ingredient contents), in particular the detailed application regulations, requirements and instructions for safe use. In addition, information on products that are no longer approved can also be found in the PSM Register. The PSM Register will be comprehensively adapted in this sub-project, with a particular focus on implementing a machine-readable form of all information within the register. This harmonisation and coding of essential parts of the PSM Register is a necessary basis for future AI-supported applications and systems.

As part of our online field days, experts presented current findings from variety value testing, from our trials, and results from national and international research projects.