Advances and Innovations in Agricultural Engineering The 6th NJF - EurAgEng - Agromek Joint Seminar.
November 24-25, 2026 Herning, Denmark
- Innovation, Sensors, Robotics, Smart Farming, Environment
- Design, Ergonomics, Soil Compaction, Imaging
- Safety, Big data, Data Science, Drones
- Navigation, Logistics, SD Goals, GIS Mapping
- Advisory service, Management, Education
- Networking, Horizon Europe
- Artifical intelligence, Post harvest, Plant protection
- Circular economy, Climate neutral
Registration and deadlines
Registration: 30. October 2026
Finished abstract or poster; 8th November
For registration, please visit; https://event.organicer.dk/njf2026
Here you can
- Register as of participant and abstract or poster
- Order accommodation
- Order possible transport from Billund Airport to hotel in Herning
- Fully payment of participation and/or accommodation
- Upload of abstract. See example
Preliminary Program 2026
24th of November
10.00-11.00 Registration and coffee 11.00-13.00 Keynotes and presentations 13.00-14.00 Lunch 14.00-17.00 Presentations 17.30 Bus to Herning 18.00-23.00 Agromek dinner (close to hotel) 25th of November
09.00-13.00 Presentations 13.00-14.00 Lunch 14.00-16.00 Presentations 16.00-17.00 Visiting selected exhibitors in groups (sensors, robots, mapping, innovations etc) 17.00-20.00 Visiting fair on your own Shuttle buses from fair to Billund airport frequently during the afternoon/evening The times above only show a preliminary schedule. The program will be fully detailed and set after all abstracts have been delivered (around the 15th of November)
About the seminar
This is the 6th seminar that we together have arranged in Herning linked to the Agromek Fair www.agromek.com. We had a similar seminar in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022 (2020 cancelled due to the pandemic) and 2024.
As a member of NJF or EurAgEng you will get a discount. Please contact your national contact for membership in NJF or EurAgEng. Students get a discount independent of membership.
NJF (Nordic Association of Agricultural Science) https://nordicagriculture.eu/ is an association open for Nordic and Baltic researchers, teachers, advisors, manufacturers and other people interesting in agricultural science and innovation, and this seminar highlights especially agricultural engineering for a sustainable future. EurAgeng is a European Association within Agricultural Engineering in Europe, please visit www.eurageng.eu for more information.
The reason why we have linked these seminars to the agromek fair, is mainly the golden opportunity for networking. People from companies as well as universities and research institutions & advisory service from the Northern and Baltic countries have joined the former seminars also with presentations. In order to stimulate to this networking through exchange of knowledge and experiences, we also may accept presentations at an early stage in your project as well as ideas and solutions for improved common education and advisory services and not only final project-based presentations. After the seminar, the presentations will be gathered as PDF proceedings and be downable for all participants (if accepted by the author). You can choose if you want to hold an oral presentation or a poster presentation.
When you click on the ‘registration’ site, you will get the possibility to tag off for kind of participance, and you may also upload your abstract now or later (but within deadline). When register, please fill in a title of your abstract (so we have an idea about your abstract and later presentation). The acceptance of abstract will follow shortly after deadline.
About the program, please click on the ‘program’ site.
Together we aim to solve the challenges for a sustainable agriculture.
We wish you all warmly welcome to the seminar!
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Ibrahim Abdelfattah Abdelhameed ibrahim.abdelhameed@nmbu.no (please contact me if any need of more information)
Book of abstracts from 2024
Book of presentations from 2024
Keynote speakers in 2024
Thomas Anken
Thomas Anken Photo: Agroscope Thomas Anken is leading the group Digital Production at Agroscope, Switzerland. He’s member of the working group “sprayer testing” in Switzerland and was involved to setup the sprayer tests for drones. In collaboration with five federal offices he initiated the homologation process for spray drones now being practiced in Switzerland since 5 years. A part of these activities his group is dealing with other challenges of digitisation like spot-spraying or IoT-driven irrigation systems and computer vision for several applications.
Title of presentation: UAV sprayers in Switzerland
Kit Franklin
Kit Franklin Kit Franklin is a Chartered Agricultural Engineer, Senior Engagement Fellow in the Engineering Department at Harper Adams University and current President Elect of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE). His expertise covers a range of topics from mechanical design to precision farming and automation. Kit’s research into “future farming systems” led to the ground-breaking and headline-grabbing world first ‘Hands-Free Hectare’ project, which established and harvested a cereal crop using autonomous machinery and then grew to become the 35ha Hands Free Farm for which he was Principal Investigator. The Hands Free projects have won multiple awards. He also co-chairs IAgrE’s Robotics Special Interest Group and is a member of BSI Technical Subcommittee AGE/6/4, developing BS 8646, “Use of crop robots in agriculture and horticulture – Code of practice.
Tentative title of presentation: Challenges and experiences from the Hands Free Farm project
Karolina Muhrman
Karolina Muhrman, PhD, Associate Professor in pedagogy, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning (IBL), Linköping University. Photo: Private PhD, Associate Professor in pedagogy, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning (IBL), Linköping University, Chief Initiative Officer Organization in Agtech Sweden, Executive director for the National Knowledge hub for agricultural digitalization (shared with Per Frankelius). Has lifelong farming experience and has run her own farm for many years. She has a degree in agriculture and has worked as a teacher in an agricultural school for 11 years. She has a university degree including chemistry, biology, mathematics and pedagogy. She has taught and researched these subjects for many years, with focus on content and learning. She did here PhD on mathematics in agriculture and agricultural education. She has had several management and leadership positions in the university. And have also led several research and development projects and programs.
Title of presentation: Towards a knowledge hub for digital technology in agriculture
Per Frankelius
Per Frankelius, PhD, is Chief Initiative Officer Innovation at Agtech Sweden. Photo: Privat Per Frankelius, PhD, is Chief Initiative Officer Innovation at Agtech Sweden, Operation Manager (together with Karolina Muhrman) for the National knowledge hub for the digitization of agriculture (Kunskapsnav för jordbrukets digitalisering) in Sweden, and Associate professor in business administration at the Department of Business Administration at Linköping University. His research about invention and innovation in relation to agriculture is published in e.g. Journal of High Technology Management Research, the Lancet, and Agronomy Journal.
Title of presentation: Towards a knowledge hub for digital technology in agriculture
More information to come
Organizing committee
- Ibrahim Abdelfattah Abdelhameed (NO) - chairman. Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås
- Weria Khaksar NO) Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås
- Claus Hermansen (DK). CEO for Agromek & Danish Agroindustry
- Claus Sørensen (DK). Former president of the EurAgEng, Department of Engineering, Aarhus University
- Alastair James Ward, (DK) Department of Engineering, Aarhus University
- Antti Lajunen, (FI) University of Helsinki, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Helsinki
- Sven Bernesson, (SE) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Energy and Technology, Uppsala
- Vitalijs Osadcuks , (LV) Latvia University of Agriculture, Faculty of Engineering, Jelgava
- Kęstutis Venslauskas, (LT) Vytautas Magnus University, Department of Mechanical, Energy and Biotechnology Engineering
- Oliver Sada, (EST) Institute of Technology, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu
- Maibritt Kindberg, MCH Agromek
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