HOLOSEU – EU-Wide Farm Assessment Tool

Last updated: 23.8.2025

This collaborative European project develops a next-generation decision-support platform to assess agricultural practices on farm and regional levels.

The goal of the project is to build and open-source digital software prototype (HOLOSEU v3.0) for quantifying climate, economic, and biodiversity impacts in agriculture across the project countries, tailored to national conditions and farmer usability.

Avoin with partners from Ireland, Germany, Turkiye, Romania, Poland, and Estonia upgrade the HOLOSEU model with enhanced geospatial, climate, and economic data modules, enabling precise climate-smart scenario simulations. Avoin’s role focused on geospatial PostGIS database creation, API connections for Copernicus data, user-centred interface design, FAIR data-sharing protocols, and Finnish data integration.

Avoin´s work is 70% funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland, as part of the ICT Agri-Food – ERA-Net scheme, which supports the bottom-up coordination of national and regional programmes in the European Union.

Status and news

Beta release expected in 2027.

Illustration: Linda Mandell, Avoin

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Duration

12/2024-12/2027

Offered expertise:

Stakeholder co-creation, Scientific collaboration, Design, Data integration, Geospatial database, Remote sensing, Software engineering, Open-source, Communications

Openness

Free tool, mainly open data, models, and code

Partners

University College Dublin (UCD), Avoin, University of Augsburg, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Yozgat Bozok University, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest (USAMV), Institute of Agrophysics – Polish Academy of Sciences, in-kind support from Tartu Observatory – University of Tartu

Grant ID

va-mmm-2024-22-4

Links 

https://holoseu.net