October 28, 2020. IFAPA organizes the on-line informative conference: European R&D Projects

On October 28, 2020, IFAPA organized the informative on-line conference: European R&D Projects. The objective of this conference has been to present the current situation of international R&D project management within the framework of Ifapa. The main financing opportunities offered by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe Programs have been presented and some experiences of the Institute’s participation through European R&D Projects have been presented.

During the day, the researcher María Patrocinio González Dugo presented the LIFE AGROgestor project, and the main functionalities offered by both platforms (AGROasesor and AGROgestor) for advising and managing information in the agricultural sector at different work scales. To this day with 60 attendees from scientific-technical personnel who participate in European projects, directors of IFAPA centers, area coordinators and personnel responsible for the administration and management of the Ifapa headquarters.

The Andalusian Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA) is the main agent for the generation and transfer of knowledge in the agri-food and fishing sector in Andalusia. IFAPA is emerging as a Public Administrative Agency with an essential role in the consolidation of the economic recovery and the generation of employment through research, innovation and training, also contributing to the improvement of competitiveness and the increase of value added from the agricultural, livestock and fishing sector of Andalusia.