AgroUP AgroUP

Vairão – Project Agrifood UP

José Luís Santos

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Context

• What are the motivations of the approach AgroUP?

• Historic of University of Porto in the Agro Domain

• What are the guidelines of this strategy?

• On-going developments

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Agrarian Sciences

Historically associated to the Faculty of Sciences

By 1994 was instituted in the Faculty of Sciences the degree Agrarian Sciences

(Practical component in Vairão)

Great difficulties of establishment • Internal Factors

• Unfavourable external surrounding

Historic

At U. Porto there are important components in basic sciences relevant for the Agrarian domain (soils, water resources, biology, botany, food chemistry, nutrition, veterinary, food processing, engineering, etc)

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Synthetically:

At U. Porto (a university of horizontal profile) the AGRO activity, although present in various components, it has never been the subject of much attention.

Reasons?

Society focused on industry and services; idea that "advanced" society is already far from the primary sector; social devaluation, ....

Historic

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Recent Developments

From 2008, in the context of the new economic and social realities, the U. Porto sought to streamline the Agro domain with a new framework

Need to ensure territorial infrastructure where to anchor this activity

Agrarian Campus of University of Porto(Vairão)

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formalization

Agrarian Campus of da U. Porto

O campus Agrário de Vairão da Universidade do Porto, integra um conjunto de edifícios e parcelas agrícolas pertencentes ao Estado Português e cedidas à Universidade do Porto pelo período de 25 anos, para instalação de um Polo de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias, incluindo as valências de Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação, Divulgação Científica, Incubação Empresarial, Ensino e Formação, todas elas ligadas à Veterinária, Agricultura, Silvicultura, Biodiversidade, Produção e Segurança Alimentar, orientadas para a promoção do desenvolvimento sustentável do meio rural.

(2 March 2011)

Recent Developments

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Campus U. Porto - Vairão

INIAV Veterinária U. Porto Edifício Central (Centro de Atualização Propedêutica)

Campo da Varziela

Centro deFormação

Quinta do Castro e Terrenos

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The proximity of the Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária - Vairão

Vivarium

Actual POLO DE VAIRÃO do INIAV

(Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária)

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AgroUP

What Context Outlined the Development of the Strategy AgroUP

at

University of Porto?

Two Central Problems

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AgroUP

How to feed nine billion people by 2050?

... Without differentiation of latitude, longitude and with sustainability (future generations)

The food problem

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What does that mean?

Intrinsically a rather more complex problem

The Problem of the Social Sustainability

What economic / social model who shall develop to provide opportunity to all Human Being to have access to work, as a

condition of personal (and familiar) sustainability,

but also

as a structural condition of Human Dignity?

AgroUP

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A domain understood to be central in the handling of the food problem

Plantas

What perspective?

Agro UP

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• Soils

Activity of Relevant Added Value

Vegetal Production

All chain shall be considered

Incorporation of

Fundamental and AppliedScientific Knowledge

+Advanced Technology

• Culture

• Law• ….

• Harves

• Post-Harvest

• Processing

• Logístics

• Distribution

• Land Planning

• Social Organization

Agro UP

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Agro UP – PlantUP

The Concept

PlantUP

Fundamental and Applied Research in Plants and in support technologies for the production of food and plant derived, in an environment territorially and socially sustainable, inducing added-value innovation, providing health and Community cohesion

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Factors to Consider

•Competences of U. Porto

•Caracteristics of the Region

•Complementarity with other Schools

•…

The though on this issue developed along two years, benefiting from an important collaboration with the University of Wageningen, Holand

Agro UP – PlantUP

How to advance with this Concept?

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The option Greenhouse Cultures

Reasons

Agro UP – PlantUP

• The climate is adequate

• Enable the prodution of a vast range of cultures;

• Allows the integration of fundamental and applied knowledge associated with Geosciences, Botanics, Agrarian Sciences, Biochemistry, Engineering, Economics and Management, Genetics, Genomics, the University of Porto exhibiting in all these areas established com,petences.

• Is compatible with the production of products of high added value;

• The labour needed is not residual, indeed the other way around – generation of work/jobs

• Complements what happens in other Universities (UTAD, …)

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Greenhouse Cultures – What they are?

Much more than “simples estufas….”

Window Cleaning

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Pimento

Cultura, colheita e calibração/embalagem por

classes de tamanho

Greenhouse Cultures – What they are?

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Automation

Greenhouse Cultures – What they are?

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Lâmpadas Sódio Alta Pressão

IluminationLEDS

Greenhouse Cultures – What they are?

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Em Portugal

Cultura de Rosas em Fibra de Coco (Vila Conde – ex aluno FCUP)

Cultura de Pimento em Lã de Rocha (Odemira)

Greenhouse Cultures – What they are?

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• Type of Plants

• Environmental Control

• Illumuination

• Energy Sources

• Distribution

• …(World Largest Plant Facory; Mirai Co.’s - Japão, 2014)

It envolves

Greenhouse Cultures – What they are?

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On-Going Infrastructures Recovery

Fotos (Fevereiro 2015)

Conclusion

Dezembro 2015

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Infrastructures

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Agro UP – Horizon 2020 Teaming Call

The Candidature

Institution of a Center of Excellence in Smart Agriculture and Florest

“Tuto

rial”

Pre-candidature approved

Is going on the ellaboration of the full candidature

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AgroUP

PlantUP Food Technology

Genomics

Food and Animal Health Endogenous Resources

Biodiversity

…..

Agro UP

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OBRIGADO!OBRIGADO!