On April 28, 2025, the OASIS project was officially launched in Vilnius, Lithuania, marking the start of an innovative initiative to modernize agricultural support services in the cross-border regions of Lithuania and Latvia. The OASIS project, which stands for Optimizing Access to Services through Integrated EO and AI Solutions for Innovative Societies, is funded by the Interreg VI-A Latvia–Lithuania Programme 2021–2027. The project is designed to ensure agricultural subsidy compliance in the cross-border regions of the two Baltic countries through the integration of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Earth Observation (EO) technologies.
National Paying Agency, Lithuania (NPA), together with the consortium member Rural Support Service (RSS), Latvia, have built a partnership to implement OASIS in the cross-border regions of both countries. In this consortium the Leading Partner NPA and the Project Partner RSS in their day-to-day performance will apply the AI-based tool to be developed for the specific monitoring and control needs.
Co-financed by the Interreg VI-A Latvia-Lithuania Programme 2021–2027, with a total budget of EUR 311,850, the project addresses one of the region’s major challenges: outdated and fragmented geospatial data. The OASIS solution will provide paying agencies in both countries – Lithuania’s NPA and Latvia’s RSS – with the tools needed to monitor agricultural land eligibility for EU subsidies with greater precision and efficiency. By utilizing super-resolved Sentinel-2 satellite data at a 1-meter resolution, OASIS will replace traditional, resource-intensive on-site inspections with faster, more accurate monitoring.
The project’s core output will be an AI-powered tool integrated into the control and monitoring platforms of the NPA and RSS. This tool will facilitate the cost-effective, assessment of agricultural land use, helping to ensure more efficient subsidy distribution under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Additionally, the project will make these valuable datasets available through open-access repositories, providing essential resources for government agencies, researchers, and local authorities across the region.
OASIS will benefit over 90,000 farmers from the Lithuanian – Latvian border regions, reducing penalties, field inspections, and administrative burdens, while also simplifying the overall subsidy application process. By enhancing the accuracy of agricultural monitoring and control systems, the project seeks to create a more reliable and transparent framework for EU subsidies.
The two-year project will focus on testing the AI tool in pilot areas, hosting stakeholder events, and training staff in both countries on the new digital processes. The project’s successful implementation will not only advance agricultural monitoring in both countries, but will also contribute to sustainable agricultural practices, improved data governance, and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
