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Transcript of AgroUP Vairão – Project Agrifood UP José Luís Santos.
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Context
• What are the motivations of the approach AgroUP?
• Historic of University of Porto in the Agro Domain
• What are the guidelines of this strategy?
• On-going developments
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Agrarian Sciences
Historically associated to the Faculty of Sciences
By 1994 was instituted in the Faculty of Sciences the degree Agrarian Sciences
(Practical component in Vairão)
Great difficulties of establishment • Internal Factors
• Unfavourable external surrounding
Historic
At U. Porto there are important components in basic sciences relevant for the Agrarian domain (soils, water resources, biology, botany, food chemistry, nutrition, veterinary, food processing, engineering, etc)
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Synthetically:
At U. Porto (a university of horizontal profile) the AGRO activity, although present in various components, it has never been the subject of much attention.
Reasons?
Society focused on industry and services; idea that "advanced" society is already far from the primary sector; social devaluation, ....
Historic
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Recent Developments
From 2008, in the context of the new economic and social realities, the U. Porto sought to streamline the Agro domain with a new framework
Need to ensure territorial infrastructure where to anchor this activity
Agrarian Campus of University of Porto(Vairão)
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formalization
Agrarian Campus of da U. Porto
O campus Agrário de Vairão da Universidade do Porto, integra um conjunto de edifícios e parcelas agrícolas pertencentes ao Estado Português e cedidas à Universidade do Porto pelo período de 25 anos, para instalação de um Polo de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias, incluindo as valências de Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação, Divulgação Científica, Incubação Empresarial, Ensino e Formação, todas elas ligadas à Veterinária, Agricultura, Silvicultura, Biodiversidade, Produção e Segurança Alimentar, orientadas para a promoção do desenvolvimento sustentável do meio rural.
(2 March 2011)
Recent Developments
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Campus U. Porto - Vairão
INIAV Veterinária U. Porto Edifício Central (Centro de Atualização Propedêutica)
Campo da Varziela
Centro deFormação
Quinta do Castro e Terrenos
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The proximity of the Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária - Vairão
Vivarium
Actual POLO DE VAIRÃO do INIAV
(Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária)
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AgroUP
What Context Outlined the Development of the Strategy AgroUP
at
University of Porto?
Two Central Problems
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AgroUP
How to feed nine billion people by 2050?
... Without differentiation of latitude, longitude and with sustainability (future generations)
The food problem
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What does that mean?
Intrinsically a rather more complex problem
The Problem of the Social Sustainability
What economic / social model who shall develop to provide opportunity to all Human Being to have access to work, as a
condition of personal (and familiar) sustainability,
but also
as a structural condition of Human Dignity?
AgroUP
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A domain understood to be central in the handling of the food problem
Plantas
What perspective?
Agro UP
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• Soils
Activity of Relevant Added Value
Vegetal Production
All chain shall be considered
Incorporation of
Fundamental and AppliedScientific Knowledge
+Advanced Technology
• Culture
• Law• ….
• Harves
• Post-Harvest
• Processing
• Logístics
• Distribution
• Land Planning
• Social Organization
Agro UP
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Agro UP – PlantUP
The Concept
PlantUP
Fundamental and Applied Research in Plants and in support technologies for the production of food and plant derived, in an environment territorially and socially sustainable, inducing added-value innovation, providing health and Community cohesion
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Factors to Consider
•Competences of U. Porto
•Caracteristics of the Region
•Complementarity with other Schools
•…
The though on this issue developed along two years, benefiting from an important collaboration with the University of Wageningen, Holand
Agro UP – PlantUP
How to advance with this Concept?
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The option Greenhouse Cultures
Reasons
Agro UP – PlantUP
• The climate is adequate
• Enable the prodution of a vast range of cultures;
• Allows the integration of fundamental and applied knowledge associated with Geosciences, Botanics, Agrarian Sciences, Biochemistry, Engineering, Economics and Management, Genetics, Genomics, the University of Porto exhibiting in all these areas established com,petences.
• Is compatible with the production of products of high added value;
• The labour needed is not residual, indeed the other way around – generation of work/jobs
• Complements what happens in other Universities (UTAD, …)
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Pimento
Cultura, colheita e calibração/embalagem por
classes de tamanho
Greenhouse Cultures – What they are?
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Em Portugal
Cultura de Rosas em Fibra de Coco (Vila Conde – ex aluno FCUP)
Cultura de Pimento em Lã de Rocha (Odemira)
Greenhouse Cultures – What they are?
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• Type of Plants
• Environmental Control
• Illumuination
• Energy Sources
• Distribution
• …(World Largest Plant Facory; Mirai Co.’s - Japão, 2014)
It envolves
Greenhouse Cultures – What they are?
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Agro UP – Horizon 2020 Teaming Call
The Candidature
Institution of a Center of Excellence in Smart Agriculture and Florest
“Tuto
rial”
Pre-candidature approved
Is going on the ellaboration of the full candidature
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AgroUP
PlantUP Food Technology
Genomics
Food and Animal Health Endogenous Resources
Biodiversity
…..
Agro UP