RESEARCH COOPERATION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND ITALY:

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RESEARCH COOPERATION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND
ITALY EXPERIENCES AND PROJECTS
ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA AMICI DELLUNIVERSITA DI
GERUSALEMME
Daniele Barbacovi, Administration management
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Net pictures
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SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION among
The Volcani center
Management Information Systems
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INSTITUTIONS
It is a net of research institution oriented
toward the technologies for reducing chemical
inputs in agriculture
IASMA. It promotes and carries out research,
scientific experiments, education, training
activities and technical assistance in the
agricultural field
ARO, Volcani center. The department of Plant
Pathology deals with plant diseases caused by
fungal and bacterial pathogens
University of Haifa, MIS. It is working in the
field of computerized information system in
modern organization
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LOCATION
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SAFECROP AIM

• SafeCrop Centre aims to reduce pesticide input in
  fruit and vegetable crops with a variety of soft
  control methods Biocontrol agents, chemicals
  that influence behaviour of pests and natural
  compounds active against pests and diseases

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SAFECROP RESEARCH CENTRE
Three research sections 1. Plant pathology
(Yigal Elad, ARO) 2. Entomology (Sylvie Derridj,
INRA) 3. Risk assessment (Ilaria Pertot, IASMA)
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SAFECROP RESEARCH CENTRE
Trials in diverse condition and countries
Greenhouses
Laboratories
Fields
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JOINT RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURE
Joint implementation of national/regional
programmes through harmonised, joint or
co-ordinated projects between the Volcani center,
IASMA and SafeCrop
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JOINT RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURE

• Italy Israel cooperation is on Integrated Pest
  Management (IPM) research
• Optimization of pesticides use
• Integration with biocontrol and biotechnology

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PROJECTS
With the use of natural microorganisms it is
possible to reach a disease control that is
comparable to chemical pesticides
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SAFECROP RESEARCH CENTRE
its research has an added value due to the fact
of the integration with other sciences

• Communication, computing and software
  technologies knowledge management
• Economy Market analyses
• Toxicology

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JOINT RESEARCH IN CONVERGING SCIENCES

• Agriculture needs the support of the
  IT-information technologies to manage pathogen
  and insect diseases information or to analyse
  environmental, biological and meteorological data

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JOINT RESEARCH IN CONVERGING SCIENCES

• The "Converging sciences" is the expression of
  this need of integration between several
  sciences, from IT sciences to agriculture, from
  business economy to psychology

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JOINT RESEARCH IN CONVERGING SCIENCES

• Through research activities, the MIS department,
  IASMA and the Volcani center (inside SafeCrop),
  are developing together common research projects
  with shared goals

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JOINT RESEARCH IN CONVERGING SCIENCES

• Relevance is given to the information system
  application in agriculture, oriented to the
  decision support systems, alert and monitoring
  systems and processes management

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PROJECTS

• 1. Wine Proof project

Software for pesticide and fungicide residues on
grapes and wine. The system is intended to avoid
the use of some Active Ingredients permitted in
Italy but not in the Country of destination (or
Active Ingredients with "Maximum residue levels"
smaller than in Italy)
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PROJECTS

• 1. Wine Proof project

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PROJECTS

• 2. Bar-Code project

Software for collecting and managing information
about experiments that are done in the laboratory
and green house. It is used for managing
microorganisms that were isolated in Safecrop and
other places or chemicals products
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PROJECTS

• 2. Bar-Code project

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PROJECTS

• 3. Administration automation software project

The system is intended to support the
administration of human resources and researcher
mobility in networks of research institutes
and/or RD
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PROJECTS

• 3. Administration automation software project

The first goal of the project is to reduce the
amount of replication in the data entry, allow
correct monitoring processes, high availability
of data and to make the administration efficient,
quick and clear in all its processes.
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HOW TO FIND US
Address Istituto Agrario di San Michele a/A Via
Mach, 1 S. Michele allAdige 38010, TN,
Italia Phone contact Tel.39 0461
615239 Fax[phone] Website www.safecrop.
org E-mail info_at_safecrop.org