Memoria INIA 2009
Memoria INIA 2009
Memoria INIA 2009
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<strong>INIA</strong> as manager of the Spanish agricultural and agrifood research network<br />
<strong>INIA</strong> as manager of the Spanish<br />
agricultural and agrifood research<br />
network. National R&D&i Plan<br />
Research priorities of the National R&D&i Plan 2008-2011 are structured as described in Table 1.<br />
Table 1<br />
National R&D&i Plan 2008-2011<br />
Executive<br />
Lines of Action<br />
Human Resources<br />
R&D&i Projects<br />
Scientific and Technological Infrastructures<br />
National<br />
Programmes<br />
Training of Human Resources Hiring of Human Resources<br />
Fundamental Research Projects<br />
Scientific-Technological Infrastructures<br />
<strong>INIA</strong> participates in all these programmes as described below.<br />
Human Resources<br />
Hiring highly qualified and well trained human<br />
resources continues to be one of <strong>INIA</strong>'s national<br />
uppermost priorities, in line with the guiding principles<br />
of the National R&D&i Plan. With this objective<br />
<strong>INIA</strong> has allocated in <strong>2009</strong> 6.8 million Euros<br />
for fellowships for predoctoral candidates and newly<br />
incorporated PhD graduates in various institutions<br />
around the country. This effort was co-financed by<br />
the European Social Fund.<br />
R&D&i Projects<br />
<strong>INIA</strong>'s management of agricultural and agrifood<br />
R&D&i projects in Spain represents a pivotal contribution<br />
to Spanish research in these areas, not<br />
only because of the significant financing involved<br />
but more importantly, because it provides a tool for<br />
coordination and synchronization between national<br />
and regional interests and needs.This function balances<br />
and mutually complements the agrifood<br />
research capacity of the different Autonomous<br />
Regions, as <strong>INIA</strong> helps coordinate the priorities<br />
among the General Directorates of Agrifood<br />
Research of the seventeen Autonomous Regions<br />
(CCAA) through a Coordination Commission of<br />
Agricultural Research, which in <strong>2009</strong> held three<br />
national meetings.<br />
The main objective of the <strong>2009</strong> call for projects of<br />
the National R&D&i Plan was to address fundamental<br />
research needs of specific interest for the<br />
CCAA. Coordination among the different CCAA<br />
helps solve shared problems, stimulate cooperation<br />
among research groups and foster and support<br />
activities to facilitate transfer from knowledge gen-<br />
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