Events
Dissemination to pupils at INAT
29.04.19
UCAR-INAT
Academic info day: « Monitoring of the national strategy of reform of higher education and scientific research»
18.04.19
Medjez El Bab/ Tunisia
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Workshop: “Climate-friendly agricultural practices in Latvia”
Workshop “Climate-friendly agricultural practices in animal production in Latvia”
16.04.19
Latvia
Topic of the workshop:
Planning of feed doses for cattle, improving feed quality and extending the grazing season
Purpose of the workshop: Review, together with representatives of the holdings, the GHG reduction measures selected so far. The workshops will focus on the following:
1. analyse the practical feasibility of technological solutions for the implementation of measures;
2. prepare a description of the specific technological solutions for the introduction of the holdings of a given cluster for each measure;
3. to assess the changes in economic activity caused by the introduction of the measure in the holdings of the cluster.
Lecturers and debate moderators: LLU teachers Dr. oec. Dina Popluga; and Dr. agr. Dzidra Kreišmane
Business Forum “Livestock Production in Arid and Semi-arid Regions Facing Climate Change”
On Tuesday March 12, 2019 ISA-CM and the University of Sousse organized with great success a business forum on the subject of “Livestock Production in Arid and Semi-arid Regions Facing Climate Change”. Nine accomplished scientists participated as speakers and had the chance to develop topics which concern the business world in Tunisia. During the forum scientists, academics, students and professionals had the chance to interact and exchange opinions and point of views. Members of the CLICHA consortium from Greece, Italy and Latvia were present in the event either as speaker or as participants. More than 150 people registered to the event.
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Presentations
DESSINO kick-off meeting
13.03.19
On March 13-14, 2019, the DESSINO kick-off meeting took place in Athens, Greece. The DESSINO Erasmus+ project seeks to provide the infrastructure for the development of design education by establishing three Design & Innovation Centres in Indian Universities, where the systematic collaboration of academia with industry will be fostered. These centres will facilitate the development of improved design courses that will encompass product and service design by following state of the art methodologies in design thinking, sustainability, design research, social innovation, ethical issues in design, etc.
Faye Plakantonaki the project manager of CLICHA: Climate Change in Agriculture and Dimos Papakonstantinou member of the consortium with CRE.THI.DEV. had the chance to present the main aspects of the project and share their experience concerning its implementation.
Business Forum ESIM: Smart Adaptation to Climate Change: “Water, Renewable Energies and Internet of Things (IOT)”
Cooperation between Greece and Tunisia for the mitigation of the effects of climate change
Climate change is one of the «hottest» topics nowadays, as all prediction models agree that its impact will be significant in agriculture in general, and livestock farming in particular. The Mediterranean region is particularly vulnerable to climate change as it is in a transition zone between the dry climate of North Africa and the temperate and rainy climate of Central Europe. Indeed, the Mediterranean region has been experiencing major climate change in the past and has been identified as one of the most important Hot-Spots for future climate change predictions.
The “CLICHA” project (Climate Change in Agriculture-Project No. 586273-EPP-1-2017-1-EN-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP), which is co-funded by the European Union’s ERASMUS+ program, is dealing with this exact issue. The wider goal of the project is to create specialized scientists who, through their training, will contribute to the adoption of more sustainable and environmentally friendly agricultural and livestock practices. These scientists could be the transforming factor for the entire society towards a more sustainable model of production and consumption.
In particular, the project aims at: (a) developing specialized educational material on climate change and its implications for agriculture and livestock farming, as well as measures that could be implemented locally; (b) modernizing university courses, based on the educational material created in the previous goal, through the evaluation of the existing courses and the creation of proper lectures; (c) the adaptation of courses to the particular circumstances of the southern Mediterranean in general, and more accurately to the ones of Tunisia; (d) the use of modern technologies for the provision of courses by the creation of specific tools (presentations, video, website, e-learning platform, NCAs), and (e) strengthening the internationalization of HEIs and their capacity to cooperate effectively in research, as well as in scientific and technological innovation.
The project “CLICHA: Climate Change in Agriculture” is being implemented in Tunisia and coordinated by the Department of Animal Science of the Agricultural University of Athens (Prof. Iosif Bizelis). On behalf of the European Union, the University of Turin (Italy), the Agricultural University of Latvia, NCSR Demokritos (Greece) and NGO CREATIVE THINKING DEVELOPMENT (Greece) participate as partners. From Tunisia, three Higher Education Institutions (Jendouba University, Cartagena University and Sousse University), the National Institute of Crop Production and the Climate Change Adaptation Center participate in the project. In this project ELGO-DIMITRA is represented by the researcher of the Research Institute of Animal Science Dr. George Symeon, as a member of the scientific team.