Faculty of Economics and Management:
Most important international research projects (From 2012)
Project scheme: FP7-SSH
Title of the project: Exploring the Future of Global Food and Nutrition Security
Project number: 290693
Project description FOODSECURE aims to design effective and sustainable strategies for assessing and addressing the challenges of food and nutrition security.
FOODSECURE provides a set of analytical instruments to experiment, analyse, and coordinate the effects of short and long term policies related to achieving food security.
FOODSECURE impact lies in the knowledge base to support EU policy makers and other stakeholders in the design of consistent, coherent, long-term policy strategies for improving food and nutrition security.
Coordinator: prof. Ing. Ján Pokrivčák, PhD.
webpage: http://www.foodsecure.eu
Project scheme: FP 7
Title of the project: NoGap - Knowledge Transfer Community to bridge the gap between research, innovation and business creation
Project number: 609531
Project description NoGAP bridges the gap between research and innovation and contributes to taking advantage of the innovation potential of SMEs based on a better cooperation with researchers, transferring and using knowledge resulting from research. The overall objective of the project is to reinforce cooperation with Eastern Partnership countries to develop a “Common Knowledge and Innovation Space” on societal challenge ”secure, clean and efficient energy”.
Coordinator: Dr.h.c. prof. Ing. Peter Bielik, PhD.
webpage: http://no-gap.eu/
Project scheme: FP 7
Title of the project: Prospects for farmers Support Advisory Services in European AKIS
Project number This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 311994
Project description: How and from what sources can farmers get reliable [&] relevant knowledge, as well as orientation [&] support, in order to continuously evolve, to successfully solve problems, and to respond to external expectations [&] development opportunities?
Agricultural knowledge [&] information systems (AKIS) describe the exchange of knowledge and supporting services between many diverse actors from the first, second or third sector in rural areas. AKIS provide farmers with relevant knowledge and networks around innovations in agriculture.
Advisory services are one essential means to enhance problem solving, information sharing and innovation generating processes. In a functioning AKIS these services can be provided by various actors, among them formal extension services, training and post-secondary education bodies, NGOs but also by members of administration or research institutions. Since 2009, there is a European regulation obliging member states to set up a ‘Farm Advisory System’.
Coordinator: doc. Ing. Zuzana Kapsdorferová, PhD.
webpage: http://www.proakis.eu/