Research Meets Practical Application
Stakeholder involvement
Laimburg Research Centre actively involves its stakeholders in long-term planning and in drawing up the annual programmes of activities.
Advisory committee meetings allow regular exchanges with representatives of South Tyrol’s agri-food sector.
In this way, Laimburg Research Centre is able to keep up to date on actual needs and practical problems while stakeholders are able to obtain a full picture of projects that are ongoing and which are already completed.
This is how Laimburg Research Centre's programme of activities comes about
Creation of the Programme of Activities for Laimburg Research Centre
Collection of Proposals for Future Projects and Research Activities
Every year Laimburg Research Centre invites about 150 organisations representing agriculture and food processing in South Tyrol to submit their needs and suggest research projects.
These external proposals are collected through our digital platform (“Laris”) and placed alongside the internal proposals developed by researchers at Laimburg Research Centre.
Advisory Board Meetings: Draft Programme of Activities
Every year at the end of summer, Laimburg Research Centre hosts its Advisory Board Meetings. These events include research staff from Laimburg Research Centre and representatives of local stakeholders.
During these meetings, researchers and stakeholders discuss the internal and external proposals received for new research projects and activities.
The result of these meetings is a democratic prioritisation of all proposals, taking the different aspects into account: the urgency of the problems proposed; feasibility according to availability of funds and staff; the existence of sites that can be used for experiments, previous knowledge, etc.
This is how the draft Programme of Activities for the following year is developed.
Scientific Advisory Board: Finalisation of the Programme of Activities
The priorities established during the Advisory Board meetings are presented to the Scientific Advisory Board of Laimburg Research Centre.
The Scientific Advisory Board consists of international experts from academia and local specialists from the most representative farmers’ association and agricultural extension services at provincial level.
Programme of Activities
Once the Scientific Advisory Board has approved the definition of priorities, the Director of Laimburg Research Centre draws up a Programme of Activities for the successive year, in agreement with the competent Provincial Councillor.
The programme can be downloaded at the following link: Download Programme of Activities.
The documents pertaining to sector Scientific Advisory Board and the calendar of meetings are available here.