University of Liverpool Hosts RUC-APS Workshop

Posted on: 20 September 2019 by Nick Jones in 2018 Posts

On August 28th, 2019, an International Workshop took place in the University of Liverpool Management School, involving participant. from the H2020 RUC-APS project.

The H2020 RUC-APS project involves a unique University Of Liverpool cross faculty involvement such as: Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Faculty of Science & Engineering and the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.

In addition to this, Industry partners from UK, coming from the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their Innovation for Agriculture representative and the Lucana Agriculture Agency from Italy also got involved in this event. Ms. Rachel Brockley, RUC-APS project Administrator and Dr. Jorge Hernandez, RUC-APS project Coordinator and Principal Investigator, organized the event.

The themes and subjects covered included:

Dr. Jorge Hernandez, from the Management School and H2020 RUC-APS project coordinator, presented current overall progress for this project, with a special emphasis on the current IMPACT related work on which he is working, plus other IMPACT cases that are being support by RUC-APS.

After this, Prof. Martin Mortimer, from the Integrative Biology Institute, linked to the University of Liverpool Centre of Excellence of Sustainable Food Systems and the RUC-APS WP9 leader, addressed the current developments and challenges to combine sustainable and intensive approaches in agriculture, specially once dealing with complex uncertainties in the environment.

Following this presentation, Prof. Andy Morse, from the Geography and Planning department, presented current advances on Climate change analysis, and how the links between international research grants can support agriculture next-generation issues yet to be discovered.

Next, was the turn for two PhD students from the Risk Institute, Francis Baumont and Dominc Calleja, who presented their current work on Decision Support Tools for enhancing urban agritech in order to mitigate key risk and uncertainties in agriculture, which is linked to the RUC-APS WP7 led by the Risk Institute.

Then, Dr. Arturo Caponero and Mr. Emanuele Scalcione, linked to the RUC-APS WP6, from the Lucana Agriculture Agency from Italy, addressed the most vital and up-to-date challenges and work done, in practice. Hence, the key aspect from their talk was about dealing with current and new pest and diseases in agriculture, which links to one of the key international IMPACT cases led by the RUC-APS consortium in making more efficient the current Integrated Pest Management processes.

Finally, Ms. Deborah Crossan, coming from the Innovation for agriculture UK, presented the current British challenges on soil management and how current uncertainties in climate and regulations is generating the need for developing more impactful research in the field.

This international event considered the participation of senior academics and researchers, as well as PhD students who are, currently, seeing in RUC-APS an opportunity to extend their research work, but also their networking possibilities for future research developments.

2020 Activities: Online Seminar & Workshops May 12th – May 29th 2020

RUC-APS: Enhancing and Implementing Knowledge Based ICT Solutions within High Risk and Uncertain Conditions for Agriculture Production Systems

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the International RUC-APS Workshop “Enhancing and Implementing Knowledge Based ICT Solutions within High Risk and Uncertain Conditions for Agriculture Production Systems”, sponsored by the European International H2020 Research Program as part of the RUC-APS project. The workshop will be held online as a series of interactive seminars and presentations from May 12th to May 29th 2020. 

The workshop is intended to discuss issues relating to identifying, mapping, modelling, simulating and proposing novel methodologies and functional technology platforms for the Agri-Food sector in Europe and South America.

For all the details, dates and how to attend, please downlod the UC-APS 2020 Meeting Agenda