Living Lab Managers
Meet our team of Living Lab Managers which, together with farmers, are facing and solving state of art challenges every day.


FERTY: Feed fertilization crops and energy
Sara Carè

Senior researcher at CREA, specializing in environmental sustainability and animal welfare in livestock systems. Her work focuses on assessing environmental impacts, evaluating climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, and promoting carbon farming in the livestock sector. She coordinates European projects and contribute to national working groups on sustainable livestock production and climate action.


Adapting dairy cattle systems to climate Change in Poitou-Charentes
Quentin Toffolini

Researcher, as an agronomist developping a strong interdisciplinary approach with the social sciences (STS, rural sociology and design). Focusing on topics related to the diversification of cultivated crops, with particular interest in minor or orphan crops, from the production within farms to the value networks creation and stabilization as socio-technical processes. Several projects related to the implementation of agroecosystem Living Labs.


Adapting dairy cattle systems to climate Change in Poitou-Charentes
Adèle Marsault

Adèle Marsault coordinates and leads technical work as part of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine ACCELAIR regional project: she coordinates a team of technicians in the region and oversees on-farm trials in close collaboration with regional advisory bodies. The research focuses on the self-sufficiency of dairy systems and their resilience to climate change.


Climate Smart Water Management Veenkoloniën
Jorieke Potters

Jorieke is an action-researcher at Wageningen Plant Research, Agriculture & Society team. She have a background in transition and innovation studies, sociology of natural resource management with a MSc from Wageningen University & Research. She is involved in action research on and support to learning for sustainability in EU and national projects with a on sustainability challenges.


Regenerative Farming Living Lab
Daniel Acs

Daniel Ács is the Living Lab Facilitator for Climate Farm Demo in Slovakia. He has extensive experience in agriculture and rural development, including work for the World Bank, USDA and European Commission. He currently focuses on agricultural innovation, AKIS, climate-smart and regenerative farming, soil health, bioeconomy and stakeholder engagement.


Montado - Fighting desertification in the South of Portugal
Beatriz Almeida

Innovation and Research consultant at CONSULAI with a background in Food Science Engineering. As the Portuguese Living Lab Facilitator I support collaboration and knowledge exchange among farmers, advisors, researchers and other stakeholders, helping fighting desertification in agroforestry systems, fostering the adoption of climate-smart and sustainable agricultural practices in Portugal.


Montado - Fighting desertification in the South of Portugal
Eva Ramos

Eva is a Junior Sustainability Consultant at CONSULAI, with a background in Environmental Engineering. As the Portuguese Living Lab Monitor in the Climate Farm Demo project, she contributes to the monitoring of project activities in Portugal and support knowledge exchange among farmers, advisors and researchers. Her work focuses on sustainability and the promotion of climate-smart agricultural practices.


Almería Agroecology Living Lab
Rosa María Heredia Hortigüela

Rosa María Heredia Hortigüela is a researcher at the University of Almería and Task Leader, Living Lab Coordinator and Facilitator in Climate Farm Demo. Her work focuses on Living Labs, scaling Climate Smart Farming solutions, sustainability transitions and innovation in agri-food systems.


Almería Agroecology Living Lab
Cynthia Giagnocavo

Cynthia Giagnocavo is Professor at the University of Almería and Director of the UAL-COEXPHAL Chair. She leads UAL’s work in Climate Farm Demo on Living Labs and scaling Climate Smart Farming solutions. Her research focuses on sustainability transitions, business models and innovation in agri-food systems.


FERTY: Feed fertilization crops and energy
Alessandro Zatta

Senior researcher at CRPA specializing in regenerative agriculture, soil-plant interactions, and soil carbon storage. Key roles include Thematic Leader for Forage Production, Monitor of the ‘FERTY’ Living Lab in the CFD project, and National Coordinator for CSA. Holding a European PhD in soil carbon dynamics, past experience spans crop eco-physiology R&D and biogas agronomic management.


Regenerative Farming Living Lab
Dana Šimová

Economics PhD graduate provides high-level advisory to state and regional administrations. Crafting national strategic documents, focusing on EU funding, strategic planning, and evaluation. Skilled in project management and leading international teams. Collaborates with Bioeconomy Cluster on bioeconomy and sustainable agriculture projects, transforming innovations into policy and practice.


Climate Smart Water Management Veenkoloniën
Emma Knol

Emma is a researcher at Wageningen Research, specialising in climate resilience in arable farming. Her work focuses on understanding climate risks and developing practical adaptation strategies for farmers. She work at the interface of research, policy and practice to support a climate-resilient agricultural sector.


Opportunities to mitigate farm GHG emissions and increase farm resilience
Anja Hansen

Anja Hansen is a geo-ecologist with a PhD in Agricultural Sciences and a strong background in GHG mitigation balancing (e.g. former member of a German inter-federal state WG on calculating GHG emissions at farm level). She works at Leibniz-ATB, Germany, where she coordinates the InnoHof® (Leibniz Innovation Farm for Sustainable Bioeconomy) since 2021.


Opportunities to mitigate farm GHG emissions and increase farm resilience
Federico Dragoni

Living Lab monitor at the Leibniz InnoHof® in Climate Farm Demo; agronomist, focuses on sustainability of crop-forestry-livestock systems. Member of the Italian Society for Agronomy since 2019, he supported the coordination of the projects MilKey, MELS and DairyMix aimed at modelling sustainability and reducing GHG emissions of livestock systems and currently co-coordinates the DairyPathS project.