The PATT programs more than 870 trainings to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and the technicalization of the sector

This 2021, the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food has approved the new one Annual Technology Transfer Plan (PATT), the program that integrates the set of sectoral training aimed at professionals in agri-food and the Catalan rural world. This year they have been planned more than 870 performances throughout the territory, from 40 different areas. The majority (710) are technical and management knowledge transfer activities, but there are also 160 of an eminently practical nature, involving experimentation, demonstration and research. 

One of the features that define the PATT is the close collaboration between administrations (including Prodeca), research centres, universities, foundations, consortia, producer organizations, professional organizations, companies and other agents in the sector that make the different trainings possible.

The offer of performances covers topics specific to the more traditional productive sectors and transversal topics such as soil management and fertilization, irrigation, rural development, company management, ecological production, energy saving and alternative energies, the bioeconomy or the quality and commercialization of agri-food products, in addition to activities in the field of forestry and the natural environment.

You can consult the actions included in PATT 2021 in the following link i subscribe to their newsletter to be up to date with the most relevant news.

Coffee with Research

One of the meetings that aim to connect the Catalan research system with the business fabric are the "Cafés with Research", sessions promoted by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation and the DARP and co-organized with Eureccat, with the collaboration of COS and Grup Carinsa. 

Next Wednesday, April 14, they are organizing the online technical day Coffee with Research: Precision food, in which it will be explored how omic sciences are revolutionizing the agri-food world together with industry 4.0, while creating value in healthy products for informed, digital consumers aware of the relationship between nutrition and health. You can sign up for this link and for more information you can contact with the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation.