EN IT
1st level Master course in OPEN INNOVATION AND YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AGRIFOOD SECTOR

1st level Master course in OPEN INNOVATION AND YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AGRIFOOD SECTOR

Application deadline: November 16, 2020 | Start date: December 10, 2020 | End date: June 2021
Plant Health TV - Research that helps Plant Health

Plant Health TV - Research that helps Plant Health

Call for a video competition ‘Plant Health TV: Research that helps Plant Health’. Read more...
2020, the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH)

2020, the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH)

In December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). The year is a once in a lifetime opportunity to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development.

News

Zoom meeting di chiusura del Progetto INCUBA: Come capitalizzare le esperienze dei percorsi di incubazione? Sostenibilità economica e prospettive future per incubatori di imprese | 20 novembre 2020

Zoom meeting di chiusura del Progetto INCUBA: Come capitalizzare le esperienze dei percorsi di incubazione? Sostenibilità economica e prospettive future per incubatori di imprese | 20 novembre 2020

Sostenibilità degli incubatori e prospettive future; supporto finanziario a giovani imprenditori; finanziamenti privati e pubblici per il loro sostegno: sono questi i temi sui quali il CIHEAM Bari avvierà il confronto nel corso del webinar che si terrà, a conclusione del Progetto INCUBA (Interreg Grecia-Italia 2014-20), il 20 novembre p.v., a partire dalle ore 10, sulla piattaforma Zoom.  ...
MADFORWATER session in the framework of the 2nd International Conference on Water Resources in Arid Areas

MADFORWATER session in the framework of the 2nd International Conference on Water Resources in Arid Areas

Due to COVID-19 issue and SQU administration, the 2nd International Water Conference on Water Resources in Arid Areas (WRAA2020) will be held ONLINE on November 9-11, 2020. ...
Agriculture for food and nature: Sustainable intensification of African farming systems in North and West Africa

Agriculture for food and nature: Sustainable intensification of African farming systems in North and West Africa

As global population grows, agri-food systems face numerous complex challenges. These challenges are further exacerbated as accelerating global warming, and other human activities, impact upon the adaption capacity of agricultural production and ecosystems. These factors are predicted to have the most serious impact on the African continent....
Mainstreaming Gender in Covid-19 recovery responses of Agri-food sectors and rural areas | Side event online, 19 November 2020

Mainstreaming Gender in Covid-19 recovery responses of Agri-food sectors and rural areas | Side event online, 19 November 2020

In collaboration with our partner Union for Mediterranean, as part of the UfM High-Level Women 4 Mediterranean Conference 2020, the CIHEAM is organizing a side event about Mainstreaming gender in Covid-19 recovery responses in agri food sectors and rural areas. ...
Progetto COMMON, al via le attività di monitoraggio del marine litter

Progetto COMMON, al via le attività di monitoraggio del marine litter

È stata avviata, questa settimana, la prima campagna di monitoraggio delle macro e microplastiche nelle acque ioniche dell'area pilota Salentina. L’intervento di monitoraggio dei rifiuti marini e costieri, che rientra nell’ambito delle attività previste dal progetto COMMON, è condotto dal CIHEAM Bari con il supporto dell’Università del Salento - Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali - DiSTeBA....
Al via la New Medit special issue “INNOVAZIONE E SOSTENIBILITÀ DEL SISTEMA AGRO-ALIMENTARE NELL’AREA MEDITERRANEA”

Al via la New Medit special issue “INNOVAZIONE E SOSTENIBILITÀ DEL SISTEMA AGRO-ALIMENTARE NELL’AREA MEDITERRANEA”

Con l’obiettivo primario della diffusione della conoscenza e delle soluzioni integrate più innovative per la promozione e lo sviluppo di sistemi agroalimentari sostenibili, NEW MEDIT – rivista scientifica internazionale di approfondimento ed analisi delle tematiche economiche, sociali ed agricole dell’Area Mediterranea - lancia la Special Issue “Innovazione e sostenibilità del sistema agro-alimentare nell’Area Mediterranea”....
The Mediterranean Innovation Partnership network for youth entrepreneurship and technology transfer in the agro-food sector

The Mediterranean Innovation Partnership network for youth entrepreneurship and technology transfer in the agro-food sector

The Mediterranean Innovation Partnership Network (MIP) for youth entrepreneurship and technology transfer in the agro-food sector was established in 2016 and is coordinated by CIHEAM Bari
Capacity Building and Raising Awareness in Europe and in Third Countries to Cope with Xylella fastidiosa

Capacity Building and Raising Awareness in Europe and in Third Countries to Cope with Xylella fastidiosa

The different aspects of Xylella fastidiosa assessment and management (pathogen-hosts interaction, characterization, diagnosis, epidemiology, monitoring) are tackled
MyPack - “Sustainable Packaging Solutions”

MyPack - “Sustainable Packaging Solutions”

MyPack project aims to help sustainable food packaging technologies reach or extend their market. It will provide general guidelines to select the best market for new technology and to ensure the best commercial development, through: (i) the best environmental efficiency (direct impacts of packaging, food waste impacts, optimized recycling, preserved consumer health), (ii) the best consumer acceptability, (iii) optimized industrial feasibility.
Educating the next generation of professionals in the agrifood system

Educating the next generation of professionals in the agrifood system

To drive the crucial transition to more sustainable and competitive agrifood and forestry systems development by designing and implementing education and training systems to prepare professionals with competences to push the green shift in the rapidly changing society. To promote the transition to innovative education and learning in Sustainable Farming and Food Systems (SFFS) that relies on the combination of knowledge and action.
Green Economy and CO2

Green Economy and CO2

The scientific community largely agrees that the main cause of global warming is linked with anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), measured as carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Regardless of international efforts to mitigate climate change, communities throughout Adriatic Sea need to adapt themselves to the changing environmental conditions
Non Conventional WAter Re-use in Agriculture in MEditerranean countries

Non Conventional WAter Re-use in Agriculture in MEditerranean countries

The project aims to create innovative and technological solutions to improve the use of water and encourage the use of unconventional water for financial purposes in Palestine, Jordan, Tunisia, Italy and Spain
Boosting cross border Organic Ecosystem through enhancing agro-food alliances

Boosting cross border Organic Ecosystem through enhancing agro-food alliances

Organic agriculture is a great solution to achieve food safety and security as well as environmental sustainability, but it is still quite underdeveloped and heterogeneous in Mediterranean countries. Main shared challenges are: inconsistent or lacking support policies from national/local governments, low innovation capacities, limited knowledge of sustainable farming practices and a weak value chain where MSMEs operate in a disaggregated way.

Education

LAND AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE


The main objective of the Master Programme in "Land and Water Resources Management: Irrigated agriculture" is to improve scientific knowledge and technological know-how of the candidates in water saving and land conservation issues through the completion of specific research themes and experimental works. The course is structured in such a way as to promote land and water resources management in the Mediterranean considering agronomic, engineering, environmental and socio-economic aspects on different scales.
 

PRECISION INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT (IPM) FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLE CROPS


The main objective of the course is to prepare experts able to apply and transfer the IPM approach by combining all appropriate and innovative techniques in a total management system and by minimizing economic, health and environmental risks.
 

MEDITERRANEAN ORGANIC AGRICULTURE


The main objective of the Programme is to train graduated agronomists and agricultural engineers for future professional careers in the
domain of Organic Agriculture. 
 

L&W Course

R. Khadra (CIHEAM Bari, Italy)
D. D’Agostino (CIHEAM Bari, Italy)
 

IPM Course

D. Morone (LUM Bari, Italy)
 

MOA Course

-