The president of Elvas City Council (CME), José Rondão Almeida, visited today for the first time the facilities of the InnovPlantProtect (InPP), at the Elvense center of the INIAV - National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research. The mayor was accompanied by InPP's executive director, Pedro Fevereiro, and the director of INIAV's Elvas Center, Benvindo Maçãs.
The purpose of the visit was to introduce the mayor to the collaborative laboratory (CoLAB), at a time when the team is moving into the definitive premises, whose construction work is almost finished. Rondão Almeida considered the new space “very functional” and wanted to find out about the people who work at the InPP: how many there are, where they come from and what roles they play.
InnovPlantProtect has a total of 39 members, 33 researchers and 6 administrative staff, from Elvas, various other parts of Portugal and abroad, from countries such as Guatemala, India, Iran, Italy and Brazil, among others.
The president of the CME, which is a founding member of the InPP, expressed his satisfaction with what he had seen and what it could represent in terms of contributing to the development of the Alentejo, considering the CoLAB “a good challenge” that the local authority has embraced together with INIAV and other institutions.
Elvas, March 16, 2022
Images: CMElvas
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