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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11114,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[],"class_list":["post-16800","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"title":"Developping tools for Sustainable food Production in mediterraneam area using microbes","acronym":"SUPREME","project_uuid":"8ae926b6-d9c3-11e7-a596-0030485a3849","start_date":"01\/09\/2017","end_date":"31\/08\/2020","funder":"EU\/MIUR ","partners":"\n
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|---|---|---|
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Besides the development of an N-order parallel code for the calculation of the electronic properties of solids, he worked on the study of the structural and electronic properties of icosahedral aluminum clusters. From 1999 to 2004 he worked as a Post-doc researcher and then as an Associate researcher at the University of Cagliari. The field of his research was focused on the optical and electronic properties of semiconductors and insulating compounds, including nitrides and new superconductive materials. In 2004 he started to work as an expert researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Italy. At CRS4 he worked on the development and implementation of wave equation migration alghoritms for pre-stack seismic data. Currently he focuses on developing and testing new seismic imaging and inversion techniques in a long term industrial research project. 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During this time, he was employed as a research associate of the WIT Consortium. He took part in the development of a CRS-stack-based time-to-depth imaging workflow and was responsible for its application in a publicly funded geothermal energy project. Besides this, he worked on an extension of the CRS stack software for rugged topography and variable near-surface velocity. In 2007, he received the Doctorate degree from the Physical Faculty of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), awarded magna cum laude. After a short period as post-doc, he started in September 2007 a position as researcher in the Imaging & Numerical Geophysics Group of CRS4. From 2007 to 2014, he took part in an industrial project, working on innovative seismic imaging methods, coherent noise removal and full waveform inversion. From 2008 to 2011, he was also engaged in a publicly funded project developing a multidisciplinary grid-infrastructure for geoscience. In 2014, he joined the newly founded Environmental Near-Surface Geoscience Group. From 2015 to 2017, he was working in the publicly financed SmartGeo project, developing a cloud portal for seismic data-processing. From 2017 to 2021, he applied geoelectrical methods in two publicly funded projects targeting environmental geophysics and precision agriculture. From 2021 to 2023, he took part in an industrial project aiming at designing a production facility for green hydrogen and in an internal project aiming at developing an IoT platform for intelligent solar charging of electric cars. 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