O InnovPlantProtect (InPP) promotes the seminar “Six years of innovation: The path of CoLABs for the future of the agricultural and agri-food sectors”, on the next day June 11th, from 09h30 until 11h00, in center stage at Espaço InsectERA, located in the Central Cloisters of the National Center for Agricultural Exhibitions and Markets (CNEMA) in Santarém.
The seminar aims to present the practical results and real impact of six Collaborative Laboratories (CoLABs) in Portugal - InnovPlantProtect, Colab4Food, FeedInov, Food4Sustainability, MORE and SmartFarmCoLAB. These interface infrastructures are essential pillars of the National Innovation System (SNI) and play a growing and essential role in the dynamics of innovation for agriculture and agri-food.
The event will be attended by members of the teams and partners of each of the CoLABs, who will talk about their vision of the added value of these interface and innovation entities, from the point of view of those who collaborate directly with them.
The initiative, which is part of the National Agriculture Fair (FNA) 2025, which this year has the theme “Biosolutions” and will be the stage for exploring the innovations that are shaping the future of the sector, brings together different representatives of the innovation ecosystem to show the role of CoLABs in stimulating the transfer of knowledge and making innovation available to agriculture and agri-food in Portugal, creating value and attracting highly qualified human resources to the country.
See the full program in the image below.
The registration for the event is free, but mandatory due to the limited capacity of the space. Guarantee your presence by filling in the available form here.
We look forward to welcoming you for a morning of sharing and debate on the future of innovation in the agricultural and agri-food sectors!
Estamos em contagem decrescente para a Feira Nacional de Agricultura (FNA), uma das maiores feiras agrícolas do país!
É já de 7 a 15 de junho que o InPP vai estar na 61ª edição da Feira Nacional de Agricultura, que se realiza no CNEMA – Centro Nacional de Exposições, em Santarém.
O tema da edição deste ano é “Biosoluções”e pretende destacar a importância das soluções e tecnologias inovadoras no setor agroalimentar e na promoção de práticas mais sustentáveis e eficientes.
A FNA reúne agricultores, empresários e especialistas dos setores agroalimentar, pecuário e agrícola e é um excelente espaço para aumentar a nossa rede de contactos, trocar conhecimentos e apresentar as mais recentes tendências e soluções agrícolas que a nossa equipa tem desenvolvido.
Vai poder encontrar-nos no stand nº.18, à entrada do Espaço dos claustros, dedicado à Agenda InsectERA, entre as 10h e as 20h.
InnovPlantProtect (InPP) took part in the National Olive Growing Fair (FNO 25) in Campo Maior, from May 23 to 25, presenting its latest biological and digital innovations for crop protection, including projects focused on biopesticides for olive diseases and early detection of fungi that cause gafa, and monitoring insect vectors of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, which attacks olive groves. The Elvas CoLAB was present with its own stand to demonstrate its strengths and the impact of its research on agricultural sustainability, inviting producers, technicians and researchers to learn about its innovative bio-based and digital solutions and to actively participate in the discussion of the sector's challenges.
The collaborative laboratory (CoLAB) welcomed visitors at the stand no. 14, located at thematic area at the Campo Maior Municipal Garden, to showcase their activity, the ongoing projects that are developing solutions to the main olive diseases, the patents already submitted, the apps for agricultural management and the bio-based and digital products and services they have to offer the agricultural sector and the market. Throughout the three days of the fair, some of InPP's researchers were at the stand to demonstrate to visitors the various features of the Elvas CoLAB, which has been developing innovation that it hopes will contribute to the sustainability of agricultural systems.
InPP announced ValorCannBio project, which is processing biomass that is not used in the medical cannabis industry to develop effective and sustainable biopesticides against gafa and tuberculosis, The project will be carried out in the municipality of Elvas, which is responsible for decimating entire harvests, leading to severe economic losses and compromising food quality. The impact of this project will be felt in the municipality of Elvas, where the project is being developed, but it is expected that it will extend to the entire olive-growing region from Trás-os-Montes to the Algarve, where production losses are increasing due to these diseases. O AlViGen project was also one of the protagonists and is using cutting-edge technology to detecting and identifying the strains of fungi that cause gafa, long before the symptoms become visible. The project team has used traps to collect spores that circulate in the air to monitor the presence of fungi, which can give farmers an important advantage in preventing infections and protecting their crops, reducing production losses.
O SNM_XylellaVt project, The SNM_XylellaVt project, led by DRAPCENTRO and in which InPP actively participates, was also highlighted at FNO. SNM_XylellaVt is monitor the insect vectors of the bacteria Xyllela fastidiosa, in particular the foam leafhopper, the insect responsible for transmitting the bacterium, which attacks various agricultural and forestry crops, and in particular olive groves. The project team is developing new tools, such as risk prediction models which, in the presence of the bacterium, whether in plants or insect vectors, will allow the National Agricultural Warning Service (SNAA) to alert, in real time, about the economic attack levels (EAL) for these insects, thus allowing prevent infection of the main crops. As part of this project, the team has also developed an online platform where citizens can report the sighting of foams, which are signs of the presence of the insect vectors of X. fastidiosa, This will help to map its temporal and spatial distribution and to plan measures to combat this bacterium.
The FNO, organized jointly by the Campo Maior City Council and the Centre for the Study and Promotion of Olive Oil in the Alentejo (CEPAAL), is an event that aims to enhance national olive growing, and in particular Portuguese olive oil, boosting the local economy and bringing together professionals from the sector - producers, technicians, or researchers - from all over the country to discuss challenges and trends in the Portuguese olive and olive oil sector.
International Day for the Fascination of Plants 2022 celebrated in Elvas on May 19th
To celebrate Fascination of Plants Day 2022, InnovPlantProtect (InPP) promotes the 1st Meeting of Ciência Viva Clubs of secondary schools in the district of Portalegre, tomorrow, May 19th, with the support of Estremoz Living Science Center, and a guided tour of InPP's new laboratories. The afternoon ends with a visit to Elvas Municipal Garden, This is the largest green space in the city and has a remarkable biodiversity in terms of tree species.
The following secondary schools are taking part in the initiative Mouzinho da Silveira, from Portalegre, and D. Sancho II of Elvas, which has just formed its Ciência Viva na Escola Club. InPP will welcome a total of 42 students and seven teachers to its facilities. The tour of the laboratories, led by CoLAB's executive director, Pedro Fevereiro, will be followed by a short presentation on the charms and importance of plant biodiversity. Then, at 3.45 p.m., the students and teachers will gather in the renovated InPP/ INIAV Auditorium for the Ciência Viva Club Meeting at the School.
The aim of this meeting is for the district's clubs to get to know each other and present the projects they have developed and plan to develop. The joint initiative between InPP, the Schools and CCV Estremoz is part of the national celebrations coordinated by the ITQB NOVA, The aim is to promote a culture of knowledge about the importance of plants through the wonder that the plant world provides, whether at home, in the street, in the countryside or on the beach, in the forest, in the orchard, in the vegetable garden, in the agricultural field or in the mountains.
O Fascination of Plants Day is an initiative of the European Plant Science Organization (EPSO), which takes place every two years on May 18th. It is coordinated at national level by the Portuguese Society of Plant Physiology and ITQB NOVA, with events across the country.
How do you innovate in the interior of Portugal? Yes, it's possible! Pedro February explains everything today, May 17th, at Science’22 Meeting. Tomorrow, the 18th, Cristina Azevedo e David Learmonth talks on the development of plant protection products for the control of phytopathogens and on the encapsulation of biopesticides.
The executive director of InnovPlantProtect (InPP) is one of the speakers at the session “From Lab to Fab: stories of innovation”, organized by ANI - National Innovation Agency, The event starts at 2pm in Room 5C of the Lisbon Congress Center. Pedro Fevereiro will demonstrate the case of the Elvas CoLAB, which operates in the heart of the Alto Alentejo region.
Tomorrow, the director of the Department of New Biopesticides and the director of the Department of Formulations and Process Development at InPP will speak at the session entitled “Sustainable Production and Consumption IV”, which will take place in Auditorium 3, from 11.30am to 1pm.
InnovPlantProtect (InPP) is celebrating National Scientists Day 2022, May 16, by challenging its researchers to complete the sentence “A scientist is...”
...someone who gets up in the morning with the desire to discover something new and the perseverance to carry on even when that doesn't happen.
...someone who answers questions about how our Universe works, using experimentation as a way of investigating it, and who establishes verifiable theories about how it works.
...someone who finds answers to questions that may only be of interest to a niche group of people or, on the other hand, contribute to the maintenance of the human species, namely by finding solutions to guarantee food for the world's growing population, as we try to do every day at InPP. Regardless of the “size” of the issue, being a scientist is always a huge challenge.
... the deeper reality of the superficial physical occurrence. In this context, one of my most recent works{ explores the specific adaptations of symptomatic and asymptomatic vines to esca, a disease as old as vine growing!
*Goufo, P., Singh, R. K. and Cortez, I. (2021) Metabolites Differentiating Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Grapevine Plants (Vitis vinifera L ‘Malvasia-Fina’) Infected with Esca Complex Disease-Associated Fungi. Biol. Life Sci. Forum 2022, 11(1), 87; https://doi.org/10.3390/IECPS2021-11923
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