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Agrotecnio’s Scientific Advisory Board meets to review the Strategic Plan
On 20 and 21 February, Agrotecnio hold a hybrid meeting of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), an external organism composed of international researchers and experts in the fields of agronomy, animal sciences and food science and technology. The principal objective...
11st February: More women scientists for a more sustainable world
Despite statistics showing similar performance of boys and girls in science and mathematics at school, many girls are still not encouraged to study science, technology, engineering or mathematics, the so-called "STEM professions". The International Day of Women and...
Blast-resistant rice could be grown and marketed in Europe thanks to European Parliament support for New Genomic Techniques
The European Parliament has adopted a favorable position on the European Commission’s proposal on New Genomic Techniques (NGT), which alter an organism’s genetic material in very precise and controlled ways. The aim of this legislative proposal is to make the food...
80% of papers get rejected: how do younger researcher deal with paper rejections?
Facing rejection can be a difficult pill to swallow at the beginning of your research career. For this reason, on 30th January 2024, up to 30 researchers from Agrotecnio gathered for a new edition of the Early Career Forums. On this occasion, the topic was “How to...
Reseach
Plant & Environmental sciences
Animal Sciences
Food Sciences
Agrotecnio in figures
Research groups
in plant & environmental, animal and food sciences recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Active projects
National projects
International projects
1,817,023 € financial amount. (2019)
Joint Research Unit with the
Forest Science and
Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC)
Doctoral Theses
in the University of Lleida (From 2014 to 2020)
Agrotecnio researchers
Senior researchers
Postdoctoral researchers
PhD students
ICREA Researchers
from 20 countries. 45% of whom are women.
ICREA Academia Researchers
Scientific publications
annual average. H-Index 55.
%
of our publications are within the 1% most cited papers:
among others in Nature, Nature Climate Change, Science, PNAS (Last CERCA Evaluation, 2018).
Agreements and special projects
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative
the International Wheat Yield Partnership
Contracts
with companies in the agri-food sector.
Catalan
Spanish
International
(2020) 631,754 € Funds