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New initiative to promote the Catalan participation in European projects in the agri-food sector
27/04/2011
on April 27, 2011
Group Connect-EU agri-food, a working group formed by the public sector, private enterprise and centres of research and innovation including the IRTA, attached to the Agriculture Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the CENTAto be part of the network Tecnio, begins to take its first steps. Its guidelines include: developing the strategic agenda of the agri-food sector in Catalonia, disseminating information to stakeholders on opportunities for collaboration in European projects and propose and endorse candidates of evaluation experts for such projects.
The ultimate goal of this initiative is to promote the Catalan participation in European financing programs related to agricultural and food production, animal welfare, food security and the relationship between nutrition and health. To this end, the agri-food Connect-us group will collect the contributions of the maximum number of enterprises, clusters, universities, research centres and Catalan technological centers (close and Tecnio networks) to move them to the European Commission in the form of strategic agenda. In this way, is intended to influence European policies and encourage the participation of Catalan agents on calls for the framework programme through days of dissemination, expert advice and detection for opportunities.
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Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentària - IRTA
