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How to be successful in your PhD? An Early Career Forum discussion
On 10th November, the fifth session of Agrotecnio’s Early Career Forums was organised at the ETSEAFiV campus. Three speakers in different moments of their careers presented their views on what success means and a debate took place before the chocolate tasting. Eber...
Including carob pulp in the diet of lambs improves their gastrointestinal health
A study led by PhD student Jonathan Pelegrin-Valls and supervised by Javier Álvarez, from the Department of Animal Science of the University of Lleida (DCA-UdL) and Beatriz Serrano, from the DCA-UdL and member of the animal nutrition and environment research group of...
Olga Martín-Belloso and Mohsen Ramezani receive two EFFoST awards for their research on food science and technology
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...
Save the date: A seminar to discuss on Plant and One Health will take place in Lleida on 28th November
On 28 November from 11:00 to 14:00 the conference "Plant Health and One Health" will be held at the Agrofood, Forest and Veterinary Campus in Lleida on the occasion of the presentation of the book La Sanidad Vegetal en la Agricultura y la Silvicultura: Retos y...
Drought limits the recovery of fire-affected Mediterranean forests
A study led by the CTFC, the UdL and the Joint Research Unit CTFC-Agrotecnio-CERCA analyses the regeneration of 268 forest fires over almost three decades. The duration of a drought in the months following a fire is the main factor affecting the regeneration success...
A series of seminars will address current issues in weed science and plant ecology during the month of November
A series of seminars on current topics in the field of Biology, Ecology and Weed Control begins today. This is an activity organised by the Weed Science and Plant Ecology research group, part of Agrotecnio's Crop Protection group, which is carried out in parallel to...
How to be successful in your PhD? A debate for the fifth session of the Early Careers Forum
On Friday 10th November, Agrotecnio and the University of Lleida organise the fifth edition of the Early Careers Forum, a series of events aimed ad PhD students and postdocs, but open to everyone of the research community who wishes to attend. For this session, the...
Lleida Tech workshop on artificial intelligence and optimisation promotes contact between academia and the business world
How are artificial intelligence, data science and optimisation systems applied in the efficient digitalisation of businesses? For two days, on 26 and 27 October, the Lleida Tech congress has tried to answer this question thanks to the participation of staff from...
The fourth edition of the Research School on Forest Ecology and Management of Agrotecnio and the CTFC focuses on mental health and scientific data management
The fourth edition of the Research School on Forest Ecology and Management, a joint initiative of Agrotecnio and the Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC) through its Joint Research Unit (JRU), was held in Lleida on 26 and 27 October. The...
14 researchers attached to Agrotecnio, among the most cited scientific personnel in the world in 2022
A total of 14 researchers from the University of Lleida (UdL) and the University of Barcelona (UB) attached to Agrotecnio are in the database of the most cited scientific personnel in the world, prepared by Stanford University (USA), the scientometrics company SciTech...
Research uncovers that dwarf willows in the Apennines are at least 2,000 years old
Giada Centenaro, PhD student at the Doctoral School from the University of Lleida (UdL) and member of Agrotecnio-CERCA’s Forest Management research group, has carried out a study together with other international researchers which shows that there are three specimens...
More than 100 people participate in Agrotecnio’s first teambuilding activity
The Agrotechnology Research CERCA Centre, Agrotecnio, was created in 2012 and since then has maintained a steady growth trajectory. With more than 150 scientists organised into fifteen research groups and linked to two Catalan universities, Agrotecnio is today one of...