GATES
H2020 (ICT-24-2016)
Grant agreement no. 732358
Applying GAming TEchnologies for training professionals in Smart Farming

In General
GATES will develop a serious game-based training platform, in order to train professionals across the agricultural value chain on the use of Smart Farming Technologies (SFT), thus allowing deploying its full economic and environmental potential in European agriculture. The positive impact on the adoption of Smart Farming Technologies (SFT) in crop farming has been well established for the last 10 years. In fact, many SFT are available at present time, but farmers find it difficult to grasp which are the technologies that can be used and furthermore, which are the productivity and environmental benefits brought by their adoption.
More Information
Likewise, SFT companies face barriers in the commercialization of their equipment due to the lack of knowledge and training of the farmer community. GATES provides the farmer community, agronomical students, extension services and the SFT industry sales force an easy to use and understand gaming experience that will allow a first approach to the concept of SFT, their uses, available equipment and simulation on the adoption of such technologies. GATES will develop a near-to-market (TRL7) serious game-based training platform that, through the use of a range of gaming technologies (3D scenarios, interactive storytelling, modeling and data), will train professionals and other stakeholders in the value chain in the use of SFT. GATES will develop a cross-platform (Desktop/Mobile/Web) serious gaming available for Android, iOS and Windows featuring online and offline synchronized modes. GATES will represent a successful example on the use of serious gaming as a training tool, applicable on formal and informal educational settings, on a complex and multidisciplinary subject such as SFT, benefitting from serious gaming capabilities such as virtual environments and worlds, personalized tutorial tools, competition between peers, wide personalization to real life and simulated case scenarios, etc.
AGENSO Contribution
AGENSO is responsible of the development of the connectivity between the GATES game core and various precision agricultural sensors
GATES Basics
Gamification
Serious game development for training professionals across the agricultural value chain on Smart Farming Solutions (SFTs)Validated learning
Implementation of Lean Start-Up methodology with three different Minimum Viable Game iterative versions (MVGs) that will be developed, deployed and tested in the respective validated learning cycles.Business Plan
Development the most appropriate business model for the serious game platform aiming at product-market fit shortly after project implementationEnd-users needs
Active participation of the relevant stakeholders to ensure high learners’ engagement, and personalized learning opportunities.Project Funding
- Starting date : 01/01/2017
- Duration : 30 Months
- Status : Completed
- AGENSO participation type: In-kind contribution free of charge
- This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 732358
Minimum Viable Games
Validated Learning cycles
Downloads of the game
Target Users
GATES Main Achievements
AGENSO is responsible for enabling the connectivity and the real time data transmission between the game core and various SFT sensors and equipment. This action is related with the enchantment of the GATES simulation capabilities.
News Related to the Project

New version of GATES game is online!
The 3rd version of the Minimum Viable Game (MVG3) of GATES project, for training agricultural professionals in Smart Farming Technologies...

GATES project second beta version is online
The 2nd version of the Minimum Viable Game (MVG2) of GATES project, for training agricultural professionals in Smart Farming Technologies...

Participation of 2 of our H2020 projects in Smart-AKIS final conference
Two of AGENSO H2020 projects (INNOSETA and GATES), will participate in the Smart Agriculture Exhibition Village that will take place...

3rd GATES project meeting
The third consortium meeting of GATES, in which AGENSO is a project partner, was held yesterday in Berlin, Germany, at...

H2020 project GATES has started
GATES the acronym of “Applying GAming Technologies for training professionals in Smart Farming” is a European project. It is supported...