AGRIFOOD-MEDNET

First name: Fabio
Last name: Ballini
Email: fabio.ballini@unige.it
Name of the organization: University of Genoa - CIRT
Type of organization: Other
Other: University
Brief description of the organization: The Center of Transport Research (CIRT) conducts interdisciplinary, broadly based academic research within the fields of terrestrial and maritime transport. CIRT sees its collaboration with industry and other external partners instrumental in ensuring the development of technology and transfer of know-how. Research areas The purpose of the Center of Research is to strengthen transport research with special focus on public and maritime transports such fields as well as transport economics and transport modeling. The CIRT conducts research in different transport area : • Road transport • Rail way transport • Maritime transport
Telephone: +39 0103536677
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Location: Genova (Italy)
Project title: AGRIFOOD-MEDNET
Brief description of the project: Possible actions of AGRIFOOD - MEDNET should be relevant definition of policies and promotion of pilot initiatives to support R&D, innovation and technology transfer, with particular attention to SMEs, and promotion of innovating SMEs clusters. According to the priority specification, the project aims to design partnership joint strategies to increase the efficiency of agro food cross-border trade by means of: • Adoption of common best practice relevant to agro food supply chain • Processing/manufacturing and consolidation services in the port terminal • Shared custom procedure and controls relevant to safety and health • Exchange of knowledge as concerns technologies for goods tracking and quality certification • Adoption of technology innovation in the supply chain • Products/goods valorization
Priority: Priority 1 - Promotion of socio-economic development and enhancement of territories
Topic: Topic 1 - Agro-food
Partners already involved: Italy Jordan Lebanon Spain
Partners searched: Middle East countries SME(for create a cluster)