
Plant & Environmental sciences

Animal Sciences

Food Sciences

Flagship projects

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

News

Registration open for the event ‘Water & Agriculture: Research and development for sustainable agriculture in a context of water scarcity’
The spring of 2023 is proving to be one of the driest of the century on the Iberian Peninsula. March was a particularly dry month and, according to data from the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), it was also one of the warmest of the century, with 1.8ºC...
José Antonio Bonet, new director of Agrotecnio
Replaces Ignacio Romagosa, who has been the director during the last 5 years Lleida, 11 April 2023. The Board of Trustees of the Agrotecnio Foundation has chosen , José Antonio Bonet Lledós, as the new director of this research center. He will hold the position for a...
Jornada tècnica en línia: “Tecnologia de polsos elèctrics per a la innovació en el sector alimentari”
El proper dimecres 29 de març de 11 a 13 hores El grup de Noves Tecnologies de Processament d'Aliments d'Agrotecnio, realitza una jornada tècnica en línia en el marc del Pla Anual de Transferència Tecnològica del DACC. L’ús de la tecnologia de polsos elèctrics en el...
Cyanovirin-N could stop SARS-CoV-2 infection
A research by researchers from the United States, Brazil, University of Lleida and the CERCA centers IrsiCaixa and Agrotecnio demonstrates this Lleida, 2 March 2023. A type of protein called cyanovirin-N is able to stop the transmission of new variants of SARS-CoV-2,...