Session “New horizons in agriculture and biotechnology” held

On April 27, BIOVEGEN held a new meeting of its General Assembly. The meeting continued with the celebration of the Session “New horizons in agriculture and biotechnology” which took place in the Jose María Cuevas room, at the CEOE headquarters, and which brought together more than 100 professionals from 75 entities of the agri-food sector. Furthermore, BIOVEGEN scheduled 65 bilateral meetings between different attendees, favoring science-business collaboration in the agrobiotechnology sector.

The meeting highlighted the positioning of the agrobiotechnology sector as a strategic lever to address the productive and environmental challenges of agri-food and achieve safer, sustainable and resilient production. Thus, the international leadership situation of the Spanish agrobiotechnology sector was shown, a consequence of scientific and technological efforts (both public and private) and the application of different biotechnological techniques to agriculture, such as genetic improvement or the use of microorganisms for development. of new bioinputs.

In turn, the session addressed the perspectives of financing R&D&I applied to agriculture and contributed to the formation of large science-business consortia that develop innovation projects in response to the challenges of the sector.

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Program and presentations

10:00 a.m. BIOVEGEN General Assembly

11:30 a.m. Networking coffee

12:00 p.m. BIOVEGEN Session «New horizons in agriculture and biotechnology»

12:05 p.m. Opening and welcome

• Antonio Leyva. BIOVEGEN Executive Secretary.
• César Maurín. Director of the Department of Digitalization, Innovation, Commerce and Infrastructure CEOE.
• Javier Ponce. CDTI General Director.

12:15 p.m. The potential of new genomic techniques applied to agriculture to contribute to the EU Green Deal.

• Emilio Rodríguez Cerezo. Joint Research Centre, European Commission.

12:45 p.m. Crops resilient to climate change and biotechnological approach

• Ana Caño-Delgado. Distinguished researcher. CRAG.

1:15 p.m. Evolution and perspectives of European funds for agricultural production

• Marina García Vicente. Coordinator of the CEOE European Projects Office.

1:45 p.m. FRUIT ATTRACTION 2023 and BIOTECH ATTRACTION as catalysts for public-private collaboration in plant innovation

• Natividad López. Commercial Manager Fresh Food Logistics, Smart Agro, Biotech Attraction. FRUIT ATTRACTION – IFEMA.

• Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna. BIOVEGEN Manager.

2:15 p.m. Colloquium

2:30 p.m. Conclusions and closing

2:30 p.m. Networking cocktail

4:00 p.m. b2b meetings