Minister of Education, Science and Innovation visits InPP

Last Friday, July 19th, InnovPlantProtect (InPP) received a visit from the Minister of Education, Science and Innovation, Fernando Alexandre.

The minister came to Elvas to see the collaborative laboratory (CoLAB), where he was received by the executive director of InPP, Pedro Fevereiro, and the director of the Elvas branch of the National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research, I.P. (INIAV, I.P.), Benvindo Maçãs. The visit was also attended by the president of the Portalegre Polytechnic Institute (IPP), Luís Loures, and the director of the Escola Superior Agrária de Santarém (ESAS), Margarida Oliveira.

The purpose of the visit was to get to know CoLAB's facilities and technological equipment and to find out a little more about its work and the different areas of activity being explored by the five departments.

Speaking to Rádio Elvas, Fernando Alexandre said that “in Elvas, there is an excellent example in InnovPlantProtect, which attracts national and foreign PhDs, who are research staff that are key to development”.

Also accompanying the visit were department directors Cristina Azevedo, Ilaria Marengo and David Learmonth, and Manisha Sirsat, an InPP researcher, who was representing Ricardo Ramiro.

We can only thank the minister for his visit.

Image credits: InnovPlantProtect - Hadi Sheikhnejad