Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) of Bari, as Lead Partner within TAGs project, in cooperation with TAGs Partners (CETMA – the European Research Center for Technologies Design and Materials, GAL BARSENTO – the Local Action Group “Terra dei Trulli e di Barsento”, UPATRAS – the University of Patras and RWG – the Region of Western Greece), organize the 3rd International conference on “Sustainability in agri-food systems”.
The TAGs Project is financed under the European Territorial Cooperation Programme 2014-2020 – Interreg V-A Greece-Italy.
TAGs Project – Technological and business innovation services to stimulate the local Agro- Food ecosystems and to support a cross border collaboration among local action Groups – aims to stimulate and promote technological and business innovations in agriculture sector and create a heterogeneous cross border multidisciplinary cluster, composed by research and innovation actors, policy makers and enterprises from Apulia and West Greece regions. Thanks to TAGs project, Agro-food SMEs and research organizations are working together to make food processing industry more efficient and reduce environmental impact.
The main topics of TAGs project are:
- Sustainable agriculture
- Precision Agriculture (Irrigation and fertilization)
- Proximal and remote sensing (sensors, drones, multispectral imaging and etc.)
- Innovation service
- Cross border cooperation
The 3rd International Conference will give to all participants the opportunity to listen to representatives from Public Authorities, Universities, public and private Research and Technology Organizations, trade associations, agricultural enterprises, local action groups for rural development, to share experiences, best practices and new ideas aiming to pave the way for future cooperation on precision agriculture.
The date of the 3rd International conference will be on 4th November, 2020 (from 09.00 a.m. to 01.00 p.m. local time in Italy) and the English language will be the official language.
The event will take place in Bari at the library of Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) of Bari, with a certain number of in-person invited delegates and speakers, due to the measures taken against the COVID-19 pandemic, and remotely on the Microsoft Teams platform.
Please, confirm participation by sending an email to the organizational secretariat of CREA, to be invited to the Microsoft Teams platform.
Contacts:
CREA – Agriculture and Environment Center (Bari-Italy)
Laura D’Andrea
+39 080 5475015; +39 347 8260093 – laura.dandrea@crea.gov.it
Francesco Fornaro
+39 080 5475009 – francesco.fornaro@crea.gov.it
