{"id":12329,"date":"2024-03-07T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T10:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?p=12329"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:20:26","slug":"inpp-received-a-visit-from-ricardo-pinheiro","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/eventos\/inpp-recebeu-visita-de-ricardo-pinheiro\/","title":{"rendered":"InPP received a visit from Ricardo Pinheiro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ricardo Pinheiro and the other Socialist Party (PS) candidates for the Portalegre constituency in the Portuguese Parliament visited InnovPlantProtect (InPP) in Elvas on Wednesday, March 6, with the aim not only of getting to know the collaborative laboratory's facilities and technological equipment, but also of sharing information and exchanging ideas on how the work of the InsectERA Mobilizing Agenda is progressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The delegation was welcomed by InPP's executive director, Pedro Fevereiro, and Daniel Murta, EntoGreen's managing director and chairman of the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visit began with an informal and relaxed conversation between all those involved. Daniel Murta opened the visit by giving a brief presentation of the mobilizing agenda, identifying the objectives, as well as the commitment between the 42 entities involved, with the main aim of creating a new bioindustrial sector in Portugal using insects as a tool for developing new services and products in areas such as animal and human food, the cosmetics industry, or bioplastics and as bioremediation tools, by creating solutions for recovering organic waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chairman of the Board of EntoGreen, the leader of the agenda, also emphasized the funding of 43 million euros and the importance it will have for the district of Portalegre, the Alentejo region and the country, highlighting the 50 new jobs that have been created in the region as part of the agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EntoGreen's CEO said that the InsetERA agenda \u201chas the ambition to foster the circular economy, leverage the development of innovative insect-based technological solutions for the market and build new factories that will convert olive pomace into fertilizers, proteins and oils through the use of insects\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It's worth remembering that olive pomace is a polluting by-product and a concern for olive oil producers, which can be transformed into nutritional solutions for plants and animals. Daniel Murta goes on to describe the process: \u201cBest of all, part of this pomace can even be returned to the soil that generated the olives, in the form of organic fertilizers that enrich the soil, closing the cycle of nutrients that would otherwise be wasted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EntoGreen's CEO took the opportunity to call for continued joint work with the government to implement the agenda and also warned against \u201crethinking the extension of the completion date\u201d of the agenda, since the date stipulated when the project application was accepted \u201ccould jeopardize the success of the Agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The executive director of InPP began by emphasizing the team of more than 40 researchers, from various nationalities, who work in the Elvense collaborative laboratory and presented the innovation around plant protection and the challenges facing agriculture to reduce the use of insecticides in national and European agriculture, as required by the European Green Deal. Green Deal<\/em>, in English).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The delegation proceeded to the greenhouse, which was restored at the end of last year, where they were welcomed by Leonor Martins, a researcher from InPP's Specific Crop Protection department, who explained the work being carried out by the team to assess how these end products, which are derived from insects, produce high-value products, including those for plant and soil protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

InPP leads the InFrass axis, one of the Agenda's nine axes, which aims to use insects as a tool for creating new, sustainable, high-quality organic fertilizers adapted to the agricultural challenges of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The visit ended with a tour of the CoLAB laboratories, where it was possible to meet Hamza Chammem, a researcher from the Formulations and Process Development department, of Tunisian origin, who moved with his family to Elvas to start working at InPP. Hamza is developing to \u201cproof of concept\u201d or prototype level, formulations to deliver biological protection agents, designed to protect crops against pests and diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ricardo Pinheiro was enthusiastic about the facilities and the work carried out by the InPP team as part of InsectERA. The candidate considered it \u201cvery important\u201d for the PS campaign to visit CoLAB and assured that this is a project with \u201cadded value for the local economy\u201d. He also said he was \u201cvery pleased\u201d to realize that it is possible, from Alto Alentejo and Elvas in this case, to \u201cdesign projects on this scale\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ricardo Pinheiro e os restantes candidatos do Partido Socialista (PS), pelo c\u00edrculo eleitoral de Portalegre, \u00e0 Assembleia da Rep\u00fablica, estiveram esta quarta-feira, 6 de mar\u00e7o, de visita ao InnovPlantProtect (InPP), em Elvas, com o objetivo, n\u00e3o s\u00f3 de conhecerem as instala\u00e7\u00f5es e equipamentos tecnol\u00f3gicos do laborat\u00f3rio colaborativo, mas tamb\u00e9m de partilharem informa\u00e7\u00f5es e trocarem ideias […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12368,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12329","eventos","type-eventos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/12329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eventos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/12329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15879,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/12329\/revisions\/15879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}