Organization and management of the Education and Knowledge Dissemination Plan of the Science Center for Development in Digital Agriculture - CCD-AD/Semear Digital

• Grant number: 24/12887-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: September 01, 2024
• End date: August 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Rural Extension
• Agreement: MCTI/MC
• Principal Investigator: Durval Dourado Neto
• Grantee: Francine de Camargo Procopio
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 22/09319-9 - Center of Science for Development in Digital Agriculture - CCD-AD/SemeAr, AP.CCD

Abstract

The Education and Knowledge Diffusion Plan foresees seven fronts of action, with their respective activities: 1) Attracting young people to scientific careers related to digital agriculture, aimed at awakening the interest of high school and university students through research activities in the CCD-AD/Semear Digital; children, generally the children of farmers, through scheduled school visits or field days promoted in the Agro-Technological Districts - DATs; 2) Training of technicians, graduates and postgraduates through contact with advanced topics in the use of digital agriculture and also in training for the dissemination of this knowledge; 3) Promoting the presence of topics on the use of digital agriculture in the media, concomitantly through press office actions, media training of researchers and training of communicators and, especially, journalists; 4) Promotion of extension, open to the population's participation, aiming to disseminate the achievements and benefits resulting from cultural creation and scientific and technological research generated at the Center and applied in DATs; 5) Complementary training of technicians with advanced topics in the use of digital agriculture through MBA programs; 6) Promotion of scientific events for national and international academic communities; 7) Scientific publications within the national and international community in journals with Qualis A1, A2, A3 and A4, or with an impact factor greater than 1.5 in the year prior to publication, ranked by Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and conference proceedings international tropical agriculture, which is part of this proposal. To support all activities and make the dissemination of knowledge efficient, a communication plan will be drawn up and updated periodically, which will contain specific marketing strategies, such as communication channels and the respective tools for each channel, according to each block of dissemination of knowledge (postgraduate; university extension; primary to secondary education). (AU)