AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG is a modern agricultural trading company in agricultural produce, animal feed, crop farming and agricultural technology. It is also active in the fields of energy, construction services and Raiffeisen DIY markets. With more than 6,600 employees, AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG generates €9,4 billion revenue, making it one of the leading companies in the sector. AGRAVIS primarily operates in Germany and has more than 400 locations throughout the country. It conducts its international business activities through subsidiaries and affiliated companies in more than 20 countries and has export activities in more than 100 countries worldwide. The company’s main office is Münster.

CLAAS is a family business founded in 1913 and one of the world’s leading manufacturers of agricultural engineering equipment. The company, with corporate headquarters in Harsewinkel, Germany, is the European market leader in combine harvesters. CLAAS is the world leader in another large product group, self-propelled forage harvesters. CLAAS is successfully represented around the world with tractors, agricultural balers and green crop harvesting machines. The CLAAS product portfolio also includes state-of-the-art farming information technology.

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has operated as a non-profit, Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) since 1988. Today, it maintains sites in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Oldenburg, Osnabrück, laboratories in Berlin and Darmstadt, as well as branches in Lübeck and Trier. DFKI combines scientific excellence and commercially-oriented value creation with social awareness and is recognized as a major "Center of Excellence" by the international scientific community. In the field of artificial intelligence, DFKI has focused on the goal of human-centric AI for more than 30 years. Research is committed to essential, future-oriented areas of application and socially relevant topics. Currently, with a staff of about 1,460 employees from more than 65 countries, DFKI is developing the innovative software technologies of tomorrow. The financial budget was 76.3 million euros in 2021.

ECOS is a project development, consulting and research company specialized on Germany and Japan. Since its foundation in 1988, ECOS strives to initiate and support economic cooperation with Japan especially in the field of environmental and energy technology.

ECOS has more than 30 years of experience in supporting German-Japanese industry connections. We support companies and public authorities in opening up new markets, exchange information and start bilateral projects. Our basis is sound knowledge, many years of experience and our well-maintained network.

ECOS is headquartered in Osnabrueck, Germany and has branch offices in Berlin and Tokyo.

With more than 150 machine types in the fields of potato, beet and vegetable technology, the GRIMME Group manufactures by far the widest and most comprehensive product range in these segments. The machines are sold through specialist dealers in over 120 countries around the world. Sales and service subsidiaries have been set up in the important growing regions in Great Britain, France, Denmark, Poland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Russia, the USA, China, Belgium and Turkey. The GRIMME Group employs over 2,850 people worldwide, 1,450 of them at the headquarter in Damme and generated sales volume of 557 million euros in 2021.

GROUP SCHUMACHER is a global player in AG business. Having a mid-sized company structure and being independent, GROUP SCHUMACHER is specialized in components and systems for harvesting machines. Based on traditional German companies and brands, GROUP SCHUMACHER offers it's products and services worldwide: Customer specific cutting and baling solutions in all of the world's key harvest regions with the brands SCH®, EWM®, Rasspe® and Radura®.

With our experience and practical approach, we strive to provide innovative harvesting solutions to improve the productivity of manufacturers as well as farmers and contractors. Our products can be found wherever there are stalks to be cut, or straw to be chopped or collected. We enable a high-performance and secure harvest of the raw materials used in the production of food and energy.

As a global technology provider, IAV develops digital and sustainable solutions for different industry sectors: Automotive, Agriculture and Energy. In terms of Agriculture, we see the upcoming challenges: Rising food demand, climate change, resource depletion, skills shortage and environmental protection. With smart tech solutions, IAV wants to help meet those challenges – for the sake of future farming.

Berlin-based IAV has been developing innovative concepts and solutions for 40 years. With 7.600 employees, the company brings together the best from a wide variety of worlds: Automotive, Agriculture, Energy and IT, hardware and software as well as product and services.

Innovationszentrum Niedersachsen GmbH

The Innovation Center of Lower Saxony is an essential part of our state’s economic development strategy. Our goal is to support the economy by developing innovations in order to create and secure jobs.

We are the independent, strategic and technological consultancy of Lower Saxony's state government. We set up branch-specific and cross-sectoral economic promotion networks. This provides impetus to the economy, science and politics to develop and spread cutting-edge key technologies.

We optimize the technology transfer and assist Lower Saxony enterprises with the implementation and development of their technological and social innovation projects.

Maschinenfabrik Bernard KRONE GmbH & Co. KG, based in Spelle, Germany, is part of the KRONE Group and a proven specialist in forage harvesting technology. Our product range includes disc mowers, rotary tedders, rotary rakes, forage wagons and trailers, round balers and large square balers, the Premos pelleting press and the two self-propelled machines BiG M (high-performance mower conditioner) and BiG X (forage harvester). Our flagship is the BiG X 1180, which has a whopping 1156 hp. This means that we are currently building the most powerful agricultural machine in the world in Spelle. KRONE agriculture - Quality made in Spelle since 1906.

The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture (AuL) is one of the faculties of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. With the opening of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences of Horticulture (HGO) in 1949, the Osnabrück-Haste campus was founded. Since then it has developed into today's faculty with more than 2,700 students in 12 Bachelor's and 7 Master's degree program.

The Haste campus in the northern part of Osnabrück is the "green" campus of the university. The buildings are surrounded by a park. The campus includes numerous laboratories, agricultural experimental fields, greenhouses, the WABE Center, the Organic Research Farm Waldhof and the Teaching and Research Center for Food Studies.

An innovative family company, founded in 1929 and located in Lower Saxony, Germany, Vogelsang GmbH & Co. KG today develops, produces, and sells modern high-quality machines and system solutions used in the wastewater, agricultural, biogas, industrial and transportation technology segments.

Vogelsang inventions – pumps, macerators, linkages, etc. - allow much more environment-friendly and economical operation of systems in biogas production, liquid manure spreading, sewage treatment, and others. Our system solutions are designed for reliable operation, making Vogelsang one of the technology and market leaders in many areas.

More than 1,300 employees working in over 50 locations worldwide contribute to Vogelsang receiving several awards, including “Germany’s innovation leader”.