Pierluigi Cau holds a Laurea (M.Sc.) degree in Hydraulic Engineering from the University of Cagliari and works at CRS4 as a reasercher in the Environmental Sciences program of the Energy and Environment sector since 2000. His research topics are focused on computational hydrology, Geographical Information Systems and development of innovative WEB ICT tools for the management of water and soil resources. He organized international workshops\/conferences and taught advanced courses on hydrological (both superficial and groundwater) modeling at universities. He has tutored several stagers and early stage researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4192,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[99],"class_list":["post-10183","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-tecnologie-digitali-en"],"acf":{"name":"Pierluigi","surname":"Cau","email":"plcau@crs4.it","phone":"+39 070 9250 281","user_uuid":"e3c05b78-99fc-1032-95fe-0030485a3848","personal_page":"","google_scholar_id":"","position":"Researcher","microsoft_academic_id":"","project_coordinator":[{"ID":16800,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:20:15","post_content":"SUPREME is a project funded under the EU ERANET-MED program. It aims at favoring the set up of a sustainable agricultural production frame, addressing vulnerable communities living in semi-arid and arid areas in the Mediterranean. The project objective is to combat soil impoverishment and to reduce the use of water, fertilizers,\nand pesticides by means of microbiome potential to stabilize soil and promote plant growth under adverse conditions.\nThis project addresses local communities distributed over 6 different areas of the Mediterranean (Italy, Jordania, Cyprus, Greece, Tunisia, and Algeria) that have been increasingly challenged by water scarcity and by low agricultural productivity due to the scarce bio-geochemical functions of soils. Stakeholders have underlined that a change in soil management (e.g. in the\u00a0direction of organic agriculture) needs to take place to ensure sustainability. Different soils and crops (tomatoes, sunflowers, onions, legumes such as faba beans and vetch, barely, wheat or high biomass leading grasses like sorghum, health crops and cereals as konjac, orchidaceae, amaranth and quinoa) will be considered in the test sites.\nThe project\u2019s scope will be achieved through integration of state-of-the-art biotechnologies and leading edge characterization, monitoring and modeling tools, accessed through an innovative, interactive web-based observation system.\nThe outreach strategy of SUPREME is to create a co-production frame between researchers, farmers and policy makers, which aims at bridging the gap between research, real needs and policy aims.","post_title":"SUPREME","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"supreme","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:34:04","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:34:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/supreme\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16801,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:20:16","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:20:16","post_content":"The TESTARE project is intended to address the problem of how to combine the exploitation of resources and the protection of the environment. The project aims to apply innovative tools from the point of view of process, service and product, offering the best sustainability from an environmental and economic point of view.